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Academic positions

Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Department of Biostatistics, Boston, MA, U.S.A.

  • Postodoctoral research fellow. September 2023 – current
  • Supervisors: Jeffrey W. Miller and Giovanni Parmigiani.
  • As of May 2025, I am also a Postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Data Sciences at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute

Work experience

Google LLC, San Bruno, CA, U.S.A.

Generali Italia S.p.A., Milan, Italy.

Education

Duke University, Department of Statistical Science, NC, U.S.A.

  • Ph.D. in Statistical Science, August 2019 – September 2023.
  • Advisor: Professor David B. Dunson
  • Co-advisor: Tommaso Rigon
  • Disseration: Ecological modeling via Bayesian nonparametric species sampling priors. Link pdf Slides

Bocconi University, Milan, Italy.

  • Master’s degree in Economics and Social Sciences, September 2016 – March 2019.
  • Graduation grade: 110 cum laude
  • Final thesis: Conjugate Fractional Factorial Thompson Sampling via unified skew-normal, with Daniele Durante [pdf]

Bocconi University, Milan, Italy.

  • Bachelor’s degree in Economics and Social Sciences, September 2013 – September 2016.
  • Graduation grade: 110 cum laude
  • Exchange program at The University of Chicago, Department of Economics, Fall 2015.
  • Research assistant at The University of Chicago, Department of Economics, Summer 2016, with Melissa Tartari

Awards

Teaching experience

  • [Spring 2023] - Teaching assistant, STA440 - Case Studies in the Practice of Statistics (undergraduate). Instructor: Amy Herring. Duke University.
  • [Fall 2021] - Teaching assistant, STA610 - Hiearchical models (graduate). Instructor: Olanrewaju (Michael) Akande. Duke University.
  • [Fall 2020] - Teaching assistant, STA601 - Bayesian statistics (graduate). Instructor: David B. Dunson. Duke University. Recipient of the 2021 Ph.D. Teaching assistant of the Year.
  • [Spring 2020] - Teaching assistant, STA360 - Bayesian statistics (undergraduate). Instructor: Simon Mak. Duke University.
  • [2016-2018] - Instructor at TEST WE CAN srl - a complete coursework designed to prepare high school students for the Bocconi admission test.

Editorial and Referee work

  • I have served as reviewer for the following journals: Journal of the American Statistical Association (1), Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics (1), Journal of Machine Learning Research (1), Electronic Journal of Statistics (2), Bayesian Analysis (2), Ecography (1), Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society A (1), Computational Statistics & Data Analysis (2). The American Statistician (1), PeerJ (1)

  • I have been a reviewer for the SBSS Student Paper competition award at JSM2025

Service to the community

  • [2025-2027], Treasurer in the j-ISBA board. Duties so far:
    • Part of the Scientific committee for BAYSM 2025 (held online)
    • Lead organizer of the 2025 Blackwell-Rosembluth award (UTC-)
    • Organizer of BAYSM 2025 (online) and BAYSM 2026 (Nagoya, Japan).

Skills

  • Programming Languages: R, Python, C++, LaTex
  • Languages: Italian (mothertongue), English, Spanish.

Interests and activities

  • Running. 2024 Philadelphia Marathon closed in 3:54!
  • Painting. See here
  • Music. Bass player of Project 42, a Harvard Data Science Initiative aimed at fusing music with art and data science.
  • Former actor, semi-professional level.

Address:
655 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA 02115, United States
Email:
azito@hsph.harvard.edu
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