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<p>&quot;<em>The writer Umberto Eco belongs to that small class of scholars who are encyclopedic, insightful, and nondull. He is the owner of a large personal library (containing thirty thousand books), and separates visitors into two categories: those who react with “Wow! Signore, professore dottore Eco, what a library you have ! How many of these books have you read?” and the others - a very small minority - who get the point that a private library is not an ego-boosting appendage but a research tool.<br> Read books are far less valuable than unread ones.</em>&quot; <br> The Black Swan - N. N. Taleb</p>
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<div style="text-align: right"> <p title="I walk among the others, all more or less the same
And I sing a little of Brunori SAS in my head
I am also part of this aurea mediocritas.
And I go looking for averages without variance, a little stability
It doesn't hurt">&quot;<em>Cammino in mezzo agli altri, tutti più o meno uguali<br>
E canto nella testa un poco di Brunori SAS<br>
Faccio parte anch'io di quest'aurea mediocritas.<br>
E vado ricercando medie senza varianza, un pò di stabilità<br>
Male non fa</em>&quot;<br>
Romastino 
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## About (the academic) me

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I am an Assistant Professor (RtdB) at the [Department of Statistics of University of Padua](https://www.stat.unipd.it).

Previously, I held the role of Assistant Professor (RtdA) at the [Department of Statistics of Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore - Milan](https://dipartimenti.unicatt.it/scienze_statistiche).  
Prior to that, I spent two years as a Postdoctoral Scholar at the [Department of Statistics of Univerisity of California - Irvine](https://www.stat.uci.edu/), working under the supervision of Professor [Babak Shahbaba](https://www.ics.uci.edu/~babaks/).  

I obtained a Ph.D. in Statistics at University of Milan - Bicocca and Università della Svizzera italiana (joint program, awarded with honors) working with Professor [Antonietta Mira](https://search.usi.ch/en/people/f8960de6d60dd08a79b6c1eb20b7442b/mira-antonietta) and Professor [Michele Guindani](https://www.micheleguindani.info).  

I am interested in Bayesian mixtures, Bayesian nonparametrics, model-based clustering, shrinkage priors, and dimensionality reduction.  


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### News, upcoming talks and confereces

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- [*January 2026*] My project *BNP4BNP* has obtained the **Seal of Excellence** in the [**STARS@UNIPD 2025** grant](https://www.unipd.it/en/stars-call-2025) and has been funded!

- [*November 2025*] I am honored to have received the [2025 **Blackwell-Rosenbluth award**](https://j-isba.github.io/blackwell-rosenbluth.html), assigned by [j-ISBA](https://j-isba.github.io/) to junior researchers in Bayesian statistics based on their overall contribution to the field and to the community!  




### Contacts

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**Email**: francesco (dot) denti (at) unipd (dot) it  
**Office**: Room 151, Via Cesare Battisti 241, Padua  
[Department of Statistics](https://www.stat.unipd.it)  
University of Padua, Italy
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