Marta Catalano
I am a Harrison Early Career Assistant Professor in the Department of Statistics at the University of Warwick.
Previously, I was a postdoc at the University of Torino with Pierpaolo De Blasi. I obtained my PhD in Statistics at Bocconi University, under the supervision of Antonio Lijoi and Igor Prünster.
I am also member of the “de Castro” Statistics Initiative at Collegio Carlo Alberto, of the BayesLab at Bocconi University and of the MIDAS Complex Data Modeling Research Network.
A full version of my CV may be found here.
Research Interests
- Bayesian nonparametrics
- Statistical optimal transport and Wasserstein distances
- Stochastic processes and random measures
Upcoming Events
- Workshop Emerging Topics in Applications of Optimal Transport, ETH (Zürich, Jun 2023)
- Workshop Approximation Methods in Bayesian Analysis, CIRM (Marseille, Jun 2023)
- Workshop Distance-based methods in Machine Learning, UCL (London, Jun 2023)
- ECOSTA 2023 (Tokyo, Aug 2023)
- Autumn School in Bayesian Statistics, CIRM (Marseille, Nov 2023)
Preprints
- Merging Rate of Opinions via Optimal Transport on Random Measures.
M. Catalano and H. Lavenant (submitted, pdf). - A Wasserstein Index of Dependence for Random Measures.
M. Catalano, H. Lavenant, A. Lijoi and I. Prünster (under revision, pdf).
Publications
- Posterior Asymptotics for Boosted Hierarchical Dirichlet Process Mixtures.
M. Catalano, P. De Blasi, A. Lijoi and I. Prünster (2022).
Journal of Machine Learning Research, 23(80), 1−23 (pdf). - Wasserstein Distance and Applications to Bayesian Nonparametrics.
M. Catalano, H. Lavenant, A. Lijoi and I. Prünster (2022).
Book of Short Papers of the Italian Statistical Society, Pearson (pdf). - Measuring Dependence in the Wasserstein Distance for Bayesian Nonparametric Models.
M. Catalano, A. Lijoi and I. Prünster (2021).
The Annals of Statistics, 49 (5), 2916-2947 (pdf, YoungStatS blog).
Winner of the ASA-SBSS 2021 Student Paper Competition - Transport Distances on Random Vectors of Measures: Recent Advances in Bayesian Nonparametrics.
M. Catalano, A. Lijoi and I. Prünster (2021).
In Advances in Probability and Mathematical Statistics, Springer, 59-70. (link). - Approximation of Bayesian Models for Time-to-Event Data.
M. Catalano, A. Lijoi and I. Prünster (2020).
Electronic Journal of Statistics, 14, 3366-3395 (pdf). - Bayesian Model Comparison based on Wasserstein Distances.
M. Catalano, A. Lijoi and I. Prünster (2019).
Book of Short Papers of the Italian Statistical Society, Pearson (pdf).
Awards
- Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine Postdoctoral Prize, University of Warwick (2022)
- Finalist, Savage Award 2021 ‘Theory and Methods’ (2022)
- j-ISBA Blackwell-Rosenbluth Award (2021)
- IMS New Researcher Travel Award (2021)
- ASA-SBSS Student Paper Competition (2021)
Presentations
- Statistics Seminar, Imperial College London (London, May 2023)
- SIAM-IMA Student Chapter Conference, University of Manchester (Manchester, Apr 2023)
- IISA (Bangalore, Dec 2022)
- Statistics Seminars, Collegio Carlo Alberto (Torino, Dec 2022)
- Department of Mathematics, University of York (York, Nov 2022)
- BNP13 (Puerto Varas, Oct 2022)
- Bernoulli Young Researcher Event 2022 (Jul 2022)
- ISBA 2022 (Montreal, Jun 2022)
- SIS2022 (Caserta, Jun 2022)
- Third Italian Meeting on Probability and Mathematical Statistics (Bologna, Jun 2022)
- Workshop on Bayesian nonparametrics, Postech (Pohang, May 2022)
- 100 UMI - 800 UniPD (Padova, May 2022)
- StatML CDT, Imperial College London & University of Oxford (London, May 2022)
- S3AI, JK Universität Linz (May 2022).
- School of Mathematics, University of Edinburgh (Edinburgh, May 2022)
- BNP networking workshop (Nicosia, Apr 2022)
- Department of Economics and Finance, Luiss (Rome, Mar 2022)
- School of Mathematics, Cardiff University (Cardiff, Mar 2022)
- Applied Maths Seminars, University of Warwick (Coventry, Feb 2022)
- BIRS-CMO Workshop (Oaxaca, Nov 2021)
- Algorithms & Computationally Intensive Inference Seminars, University of Warwick (Coventry, Nov 2021)
- JB^3 for Blackwell-Rosenbluth Award (Nov 2021)
- Department of Statistical Sciences, University College London (London, Nov 2021)
- OxWaSP Annual Workshop (Oct 2021)
- JSM (Aug 2021)
- ISBA 2020 (Jun 2021)
- ECOSTA 2021 (Jun 2021)
- Department of Economics, University of Bergamo (May 2021)
- One World YoungStatS webinar (Apr 2021)
- Department of Statistics and Data Science, Cornell University (Feb 2021)
- CMSTATISTICS 2020 (Dec 2020)
- WiML Workshop co-located with NeurIPS (Dec 2020)
- BAYSM:O (Nov 2020)
- Bernoulli-IMS One World Symposium 2020 (Aug 2020)
- XV CLAPEM 2019 (Mérida, Dec 2019).
- O’Bayes 2019 (Warwick, Jun 2019)
- BNP12 (Oxford, Jun 2019)
- SIS 2019 (Milano, Jun 2019).
- Second Italian Meeting on Probability and Mathematical Statistics (Vietri sul Mare, Jun 2019).
Teaching
- Dependent nonparametric priors via completely random measures, University of Torino (Short course, 2022)
- Bayesian Forecasting and Intervention, University of Warwick (AY 2021/2022, 2022/2023)
- Numerical and Statistical Methods for Finance, University of Torino (TA, AY 2020/2021)
- Data Analysis, Bocconi University (TA, AY 2020/2021, 2019/2020, 2018/2019, 2017/2018)
- Mathematics and Statistics, Bocconi University (TA, AY 2018/2019, 2017/2018)
Contact
marta.catalano@warwick.ac.uk
Department of Statistics, University of Warwick, CV4 7AL Coventry UK