About me
Welcome to my website! My name is Massimiliano Russo. I am a Junior Faculty at Harvard University, within the Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics of the Brigham and Women’s Hospital & Harvard Medical School.
Before I was a postdoctoral research fellow in Statistics within the Harvard-MIT Center for Regulatory Science (CRS) at Harvard Medical School (HMS). I have been also part of Prof. Lorenzo Trippa’s group at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (DFCI) in the Department of Data Sciences, and collaborated with Prof. Jeff Miller of the department of Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH).
I obtained my PhD in Statistics at the University of Padova (Italy), where I worked on Bayesian methods for tensor factorization models under the supervision Prof. Bruno Scarpa. During my PhD I spent about one year and an half as a visiting research scholar at Duke University, NC, USA working under the supervision of Prof. David B. Dunson.
My main research interests include: Bayesian statistics; Tensor factorization for categorical variables; Hierarchical models; Decision theory; Analysis and design of clinical trials; Machine learning; and, Computational statistics.
In this website you can find my curriculum vitae, the list of my publications and some statistical material (slides, tutorials etc.).
I have also a GitHub profile.
Education
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2015–2019, PhD in Statistical Sciences, University of Padova, Dept. of Statistical Sciences
Thesis: Bayesian inference for tensor factorization models
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2013–2015, Master in Statistical Sciences}{University of Padova, Dept. of Statistical Sciences, Final Mark: 110/110 cum laude
Thesis: Olfactory perception differences in Italian regions: a nonparametric Bayesian approach to tensor factorization
Advisor: Bruno Scarpa; Co-advisor: Giancarlo Ottaviano. -
2009–2013, Bachelor in Statistical and Actuarial sciences, Università degli Studi del Sannio, Benevento, Final Mark: 110/110 cum laude
Thesis: Multivariate robust estimation
Advisor: Luca Greco
Awards
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Best poster award, second place winner for “Inference in Response-Adaptive Clinical Trials When the Enrolled Population Varies Over Time”, ASA Biopharmaceutical Section Regulatory-Industry Statistics Workshop 2020.
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Best paper award for “Bayesian Inference on Group Differences in Multivariate Categorical Data” Dept. of Statistical Sciences, University of Padova (Research Prize 2018).
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Winner of the 3 minutes thesis competition selection of Dept. of Statistical Sciences, University of Padova, October 19, 2018.
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Young researcher travel award ISBA2018, Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
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Travel support for COBAL V (2017), Guanajuato, Mexico.
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Young researcher travel award ISBA2016, Sardinia, Italy.