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Piotr Zwiernik appointed BSE Associate Research Professor
Piotr Zwiernik (UPF and BSE) has been appointed BSE Associate Research Professor. Research Professorships and Associate Research Professorships are funded by the BSE research endowment to increase the critical mass of top scientists in our academic community.
The appointments are joint between the BSE and one of our academic units: the Center for Research on International Economics (CREI); the Department of Economics and Business at Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF); the Institute for Economic Analysis (IAE-CSIC); and the Unit of Economic Analysis at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB).
With the addition of Professor Zwiernik, there are currently 21 BSE Research Professors, eight Associate Research Professors, and five Emeritus Research Professors.
About Piotr Zwiernik
PhD, University of Warwick
UPF and BSE
Research Interests:
Multivariate Statistics, Latent Graphical Models, Algebraic Statistics
Selected research
- Total positivity in Markov structures (with S.M. Fallat, S.L. Lauritzen, K. Sadeghi, C. Uhler, and N. Wermuth). Annals of Statistics, 45(3), 1152-1184, July 2017
- Maximum likelihood estimation for linear Gaussian covariance models (with C. Uhler and D. Richards), Journal of the Royal Statistical Society B, 79, 1269-1292, 2017
- Working Papers
Involvement in BSE academic community:
- Ramón y Cajal Fellow 2018-2022
- BSE Seed Grant recipient 2018
- Co-organizes Mathematical Statistics and Learning 2021
- Member of the BSE Data Science Center
- Teaches is several Master's programs, Steering Committee Data Science Methodology Program
- Faculty member, GPEFM-UPF PhD Program