Curriculum Vitae

Position

Professor of Statistics at the University Ca' Foscari of Venice
Director of the European Centre for Living Technology
Research Area

Evolutionary Statistics and Data Mining
Focus Area

Evolutionary statistical modelling for the emergence phenomena
High dimensional design of experiments and stochastic optimization
Computational statistics and data mining for high throughput data
Short Bio

Irene Poli is Professor of Statistics at the University Ca' Foscari of Venice and Director of the European Centre for Living Technology. She leads a research group on Statistical Design of Experiments and Data Analysis for combinatorially complex high dimensional problems, developing a new approach to design and modelling based on the concept of evolution.
After graduating from the University of Pavia, she pursued postgraduate research at Imperial College of Science and Technology of London (UK), and later at the Centre for Non-linear Science, Los Alamos National Laboratory and the Santa Fe Institute (NM, USA). Her major research interests have been in Bayesian nonparametric inference, nonlinear time series models, predictive neural networks, evolutionary computation and more recently in evolutionary design of experiments.
She is Fellow of the New York Academy of Science, of the Bernoulli Society, of the Royal Statistical Society and of the Italian Statistical Society. Currently she is member of the Science Board of ECLT, of the Doctoral Program of the School of Advanced Studies in Venice and of the Doctoral School of Statistics in Padova. She is also a component of the Scientific Committee of CIVEN, a university network devoted to the research in the fields of nanotechnologies (www.civen.org).
She collaborated and coordinated several large interdisciplinary and international research projects, including the EU integrating project in IT: Programmable Artificial Cell Evolution (PACE, www.istpace.org). Currently she is the coordinator of the Fondazione di Venezia project: Designing Informative Combinatorial Experiments (DICE) at ECLT. She published over 100 papers, and co-authored three books.