Elena Bortolato

About me

I am a post-doctoral researcher in Statistics at University of Padova working with Prof. Antonio Canale. I am moving to Barcelona in fall 2024 to join the Department of Economics and Business at Universitat Pompeu Fabra and work with prof. David Rossell and prof. Stephen Hansen (UCL). I earned my PhD in 2024 under the supervision of prof. Laura Ventura and co-supervised by prof. Pierre E. Jacob and prof. Robin J. Ryder. My research interests include Bayesian and frequentist inference, robustness and misspecification, Monte Carlo methods, in particular Markov Chain Monte Carlo on manifolds

My CV

Publications

A list of publication is available on Google Scholar . code can be found on GitHub .

Working papers

Adaptive partition factor analysis, joint work with A. Canale

MCMC on manifolds and couplings. joint work with P.E. Jacob and R.J. Ryder

Teaching

Computational Machine Learning, 2024-2025, Master in Data Science Methodology, Barcelona School of Economics, ES

Computational Learing and Deep Learning, 2024-2025, Master in Data Science for Decision Making, Barcelona School of Economics, ES

Mathematics and statistics, 2024, Bachelor in Biotechnology, Department of Biology, University of Padova, IT

Statistical Models-1, 2024, Bachelor in Statistics, Department of Statistical Sciences, University of Padova, IT

Analysis of multivariate data 2023, Bachelor in Statistics, Department of Statistical Sciences, University of Padova, IT

Business statistics and introduction to data analytics, 2023, Master in Management, Grande Ecole, ESSEC Business School, Cergy, FR

Seminars and conferences

Invited talks

• ISI WSC 2025 The Hague, October 2025
• Department of Statistics, University of Florence, Statalk , May 2024
• Department of Economics, University Ca Foscari, Venice, March 2024
• Institut Poincaré, Paris, Applibugs, June 2023

Poster presentations

• BAYSM 2024, Venice. Flexible Multi study factor models. joint work with Antonio Canale
• ISBA 2024, Venice. MCMC on manifolds and couplings. joint work with Pierre Jacob and Robin Ryder (best poster award)

Education

PhD in Statistics, Padova, 2024. Thesis title: Advancements in distribution sampling for statistical inference

Msc in Statistics, Padova, 2018-2020. Thesis title: Bias reduction in Multivariate equicorrelated Gaussian models (Best Thesis in Mathematical Statistics 2020, Società Italiana di Statistica)

Bsc in Statistics, Padova, 2015-2018. Thesis title: Methods and models for music analysis