Leonardo Egidi
professor of Statistics University of Trieste
Leonardo Egidi is Associate Professor of Statistics at the University of Trieste. His primary research interests include the development of theoretical Bayesian methods and their applications to economics, genomics and sport. He leads the research group 'egBayes Lab' and is actively engaged in science communication. In 2025 he published the book 'Predictive Modelling for Football Analytics' with CRC Press, together with his colleagues Ioannis Ntzoufras and Dimitris Karlis. He provides statistical consulting to private individuals and hospitals, and was the Under-40 Principal Investigator of a PRIN 2022 project funded by the Italian Ministry of University and Research. A member of the PhD board in Applied Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (ADSAI), he supervises Master’s and PhD students. He also serves as Associate Editor for two scientific journals in the field of statistics.
Past talks
Sat. 26 September
at 10:00 - 11:15
10:00 - 11:15
Saturday 26 September
Area Talk 2
Piazza Unità d'Italia, 34121, Trieste, TS
Piazza Unità d'Italia, 34121, Trieste, TS
TRIESTE
In an age marked by the pervasive - and sometimes overly simplistic - use of artificial intelligence systems, what role do the sources of knowledge still play, particularly in scientific research? How does the brain learn from these sources, draw inferences from them, and assess their reliability? These questions will be explored in a conversation between a historian and a bioinformatician, focusing on the value of knowledge sources in the contemporary world and on the increasingly urgent need to verify and critically evaluate them.
Location: Area Talk 2 - Piazza Unità d'Italia, 34121, Trieste
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