Roberta Siciliano was born in Naples on May 12, 1964. She received
the Laurea
degree in Economics and the PhD
in Computational Statistics and Data Analysis from the University of
Naples
where she is currently full professor of Statistics at the Department
of
Mathematics and Statistics, University of Naples Federico II, and
director of
the Laboratory and Research Group STAD (Statistics, Technology,
Analysis of
Data).
Her research activity is in the field of
Multivariate
Data Analysis within the scientific paradigm of Statistical Learning:
Data
Mining, Inference and Prediction. She has published more than sixty
papers on
international journals, encyclopaedia, conference proceedings, and
revised
monographs. Main topics include Partitioning Algorithms and Decision
Trees for
Classification and Regression, Regression Modeling, Data Editing,
Categorical
Data Modeling, Web Mining.
She is in the Editorial Board of Journal
of
Classification. She acts as
referee of many international journals
(CSDA,
JRSS, etc.). She is ordinary member of ISI, IASC, IFCS, CLADAG. She has
served
as chair or co-chair for numerous international conferences.
She has been awarded numerous grants for
her
statisticians group. She was Scientific Responsible of the
department unit
for iWebCare Project (2006-2008): “Integrated Web Services
Platform for the
facilitation of fraud detection in health care e-government
services”
(FP6-2004-IST-4-28055), for INSPECTOR project (2000-2003):
“Quality in the
Statistical Information Life-Cycle: A Distributed System for Data
Validation”
(IST-2000-26347). She contributed in other Projects, such as in the
Esprit
programme TESS (1997-2000) - Automatic system for time-series analysis
and
forecasting; in the IST Programme VITAMIN-S (Visual Data Mining System
– 2001-2003).
She was national coordinator of MIUR (Ministry of University Scientific
Research) research projects: “Classification and Regression
Trees: Methods,
Open Source Technologies and Case Studies” (2005-2007),
“Knowledge Discovery
Methods and Informational Statistics for decision-making”
(2003-2005), and
“Statistical models for classification and segmentation of
complex data
structures” (2001-2003). She is Scientific Responsible of
research projects
funded by Local Institutions (Region, Province, City Hall) in the
fields of
Tourism, Social Sciences, Economics, etc.