I am an Assistant Professor (RTD-A) in Statistics at the Department of Business and Economics, University of Cagliari. My work sits at the intersection of statistical learning and natural language processing, with a particular interest in interpretable models for opinion mining and in algorithms for preference and ranking data.
In November 2025 I obtained the Italian National Scientific Qualification (ASN) as Associate Professor in Statistics (13/D1). I hold a Ph.D. cum Laude in Business and Economics (Quantitative — Statistics) from Cagliari, with a thesis on General Sentiment Decomposition. Before academia I trained as a computer scientist, which still shapes how I think about data and methods.
Recent and upcoming visits have taken me to Tokyo Metropolitan University (2025), Universitetet i Oslo (2025), Constructor University Bremen (2023), Jacobs University Bremen (2020), and Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (2019). In June 2026 I will be Visiting Professor at the Universidad de Valladolid for PREFSTAT 2026.
Research interests
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- Visiting Professor at Universidad de Valladolid for PREFSTAT 2026 (Third Summer School on Preference, Ranking & Ordinal Data).
- Invited lecture at IFCS 2026 (Milan): "DIVA: A distance-based aggregation method for finding consensus in preference-approvals".
- Obtained the Italian National Scientific Qualification (ASN) as Associate Professor in Statistics (13/D1).
- Co-author paper "Weakly Supervised Anterior Lens Surface Segmentation for Cataract Detection" wins Best Paper Award at IEEE BIP 2025 (Costa Rica).
- Visiting Professor at Tokyo Metropolitan University, hosted by Prof. Atsuho Nakayama, for the MGR-funded project "General Sentiment Decomposition".
- Invited lecture at the 65th ISI World Statistics Congress: "Particle Swarm Optimization in preference rankings".
- Visiting Professor at Universitetet i Oslo for PREFSTAT 2025.