CURRICULUM VITAE Giacomo Zanella Phd Candidate Department of Statistics, University of Warwick Coventry, CV4 7AL, United Kingdom Education

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CURRICULUM VITAE Giacomo Zanella PhD candidate Department of Statistics, University of Warwick Coventry, CV4 7AL, United Kingdom Education

2012 Oct.- PhD in Statistics at the University of Warwick. Supervisor: Wilfrid Kendall. 2012 Feb.-June Visiting student at Chalmers University of Technology, Goteborg, Sweden. 2010 - 2012 Laurea Magistrale (Master degree) in Mathematics, Universitàdegli Studi di Milano (University of Milan), Italy, 110/110 cum laude, July 2012. Grade Average: 29.7/30. Master Thesis: Branching-Stable Point Processes. Supervisors: Vincenzo Capasso, and Sergei Zuyev. 2007 - 2010 Laurea Triennale (Bachelor degree) in Mathematics, Universitàdegli Studi di Milano (University of Milan), Italy, 110/110 cum laude, Oct. 2010. Grade Average: 29.0/30. Thesis: Maps and plans in optimal transportation theory. Supervisor: Giacomo Aletti. 2005 - 2006 Exchange year (4th year of High School) at St. Dominic’s High School, London, UK. 2002 - 2007 Scientific High School (Liceo Sacro Cuore), Milan, Italy. Final score (Diploma): 100/100. Awards and Scholarships

2014 July Junior Travel Award, ISBA 2014 conference. 2013 - 2014 Nomination for the Warwick Awards for Teaching Excellence for PhD Students, based on senior teaching fellows observations and students feedback. 2014 January Honourable mention for poster, MCMSki IV conference. 2012 - 2015 Center for Research in Statistical Methodology (CRiSM) studentship. 2007 - 2009 Merit scolarship holder at INdAM (National Institute of High Mathematics). Award assigned through national examination to 40 students across all Italy. 2008 - 2010 “Incentives for students enrolled in Chemistry, Physics and Mathematics degree”, award assigned by the University of Milan. Research Interests

Generally speaking I’m interested in Statistics and Probability Theory. More speciﬁcally I am working on:

• Computational Statistics: Monte Carlo methods; Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithms (especially MCMC on discrete spaces, mixing time bounds, optimal scaling); tempering schemes. • Bayesian Statistics: Bayesian Nonparametrics; Bayesian cluster models. • Probability Theory: point processes and random measures; Markov chains.

Papers submitted and in preparation

G. Zanella, Bayesian complementary clustering, MCMC for data association and Anglo-Saxon placenames, Under revision for The Annals of Applied Statistics. G. Zanella and S. Zuyev, Branching-Stable point processes, In preparation. W.S. Kendall, G. Zanella and M. Bedard, MCMC optimal scaling and Dirichlet forms, In preparation. Talks and Posters

2014 November Invited talk at Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden. 2014 October Talk at the OxWaSp-YRM day, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK. 2014 August Poster at ISBA 2014 conference, Cancun, Mexico. 2014 June Talk at ABS14 Summer School, Como, Italy. 2014 May Talk at the CRiSM Scientiﬁc council, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK. 2014 March Invited talk at Universit`aCattolica di Milano, Milan, Italy. 2014 March Poster at the Intractable Likelihood workshop, University of Oxford, UK. 2014 January Poster at MCMSki IV conference, Chamonix Mont-Blanc, France. 2013 May Talk at Young Researchers Meeting, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK. 2012 September Invited talk at Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden. Teaching experience

2012 - 2015 Probability Theory (ST318), example classes, University of Warwick. 2013 - 2015 Applied Stochastic Processes (ST333), example classes, University of Warwick. 2012 November Workshop for Postgraduate Students who Teach, Higher Education Academy, Leicester, UK. Conferences and Workshops

2014 July International Society for Bayesian Analyisis (ISBA) 2014 conference, Cancun, Mexico. 2014 March Intractable Likelihood workshop, University of Oxford, UK. 2014 February Big data in biomedicine. Big Models?, University of Warwick, UK. 2014 January MCMSki IV conference, Chamonix Mont-Blanc, France. 2013 November Big Data in the Mathematical Sciences Workshop, University of Warwick, UK. 2013 May CRiSM workshop on “Intractable Likelihoods”, University of Warwick, UK. 2013 April UK Probability Easter Meeting 2013: Geometry and Analysis of Random Processes, University of Cambridge, UK. Other working and academic activities

2013 - 2014 Organiser of a reading group on Monte Carlo methods at the University of Warwick. 2010 June-July 7 weeks stage in industrial programming at Antil S.p.A., robotics and automation, Milan. 2007 - 2012 Public Outreach activities: active organiser of public conferences and lectures with many mathematicians, among which Enrico Bombieri (Fields Medal) and Edward Nelson; conventions for freshmen year University students; director of a student journal at the University of Milan. 2011 - 2012 Academic service: elected in “Consorzio Interuniversitario per il Diritto allo Studio” (Consortium for the Right to University Study), operating as an intermediary between universities and Visiting students (Erasmus and Exchange), for the accommo- dation and canteen service management. Schools and Training

2014 July Software Engineering for Statisticians (by M.Stokeley, Google) and Bayesian Analysis of Stochastic Process Models (by F.Ruggeri and M.Wiper). Cancun, Mexico. 2014 June Applied Bayesian Nonparametrics Summer School (by M.Jordan and F.Caron). Como, Italy. 2013 September Academy for PhD Training in Statistics week 4: Spatial and Longitudinal Data Analysis (by P.Diggle), Nonparametric Smoothing (by A.Bowman & L.Evers). Uni- versity of Glasgow, UK. 2013 August Academy for PhD Training in Statistics week 3: Applied Stochastic Processes (by C.Goldschmidt), Computer Intensive Statistics (by B.Ripley). University of War- wick, UK. 2013 April Academy for PhD Training in Statistics week 2: Statistical Modelling (by D.C.Woods) and Statistical Asymptotics (by A.T.A.Wood). University of Nottingham, UK. 2012 December Academy for PhD Training in Statistics week 1: Statistical Computing (by S.N.Wood) and Statistical Inference (by J.C.Rougier), University of Cambridge, UK. 2010-2012 Master: Algorithms, Armonic Analysis, Biomathematics 2, Complex Analysis, Game theory, Mathematical Economics, Functional Analysis, General Relativity, Mathematical Finance 1, Mathematic Modelling Laboratory, Partial Diﬀerential Equation, Statistics, Stochastic calculus. 2007-2010 Bachelor: Algebra 1, Algebra 2 , Geometry 1, Geometry 2, Geometry 3, Geometry 4, Informatic laboratory 1, Laboratory of computational mathematics, Mathematical Analysis 1, Mathematical Analysis 2, Mathematical Analysis 3, Mathematical Analysis 4, Mathematical physics 1, Mathematical physics 2, Numerical Calculus, Physics 1, Physics 2, Physics 3, Physics 4, Probability Theory, Probability and Statistics 1, Probability and Statistical Laboratory, Programming Laboratory, Real Analysis. IT skills

R, C, MatLab, Maple, Wolfram Mathematica, LaTeX, Microsoft Oﬃce Programs, Adobe Photoshop, Gimp. Languages

Italian (mother tongue); English (ﬂuent). IELTS certiﬁcate with band score 8.0/9 (July 2012).