STEFANO M. IACUS
Stefano M. Iacus, PhD, is full professor of statistics (SECS-S01) at the Department of Economics, Management and Quantitative Methods, University of Milan. He has been a member of the R Core Team (1999-2014) for the development of the R statistical environment and now member of the R Foundation for Statistical Computing. He is also a co-founder of VOICES from the Blogs, a spinoff company of the University of Milan, specialised in Social Media and Big Data Analysis. Visiting Professor at the Graduate School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Tokyo (JP); member of the SMAPP Global Network, New York University (USA); member of the Institute of Social Media Data, Waseda University (JP); member of the Big Data Committee of the National Institute of Statistics (ISTAT).
His research interests include inference for stochastic processes, simulation, quantitative finance, computational statistics, causal inference, text mining, and sentiment analysis.
He is the Director of the Data Science Lab.