PLENARY SPEAKERS
University of Oviedo, Spain
Ana Colubi is full professor at the University of Oviedo, Spain. She has
over 60 publications indexed in the Web of Knowledge on probability
theory, methodological statistics, data analysis, ICT and applications.
She is the coordinator of the network CMStatistics, which has over 1200
members and co-organizer of the ERCIM conferences series. She is area
editor of Fuzzy Sets and Systems, associate editor of Computational
Statistics and Data Analysis and the International Journal of Computer
Mathematics, and co-editor of Econometrics & Statistics. She is also
currently Chairman-Elect of the European Board of Directors of the
International Association for Statistical Computing, IASC, and chair of
the COST Action CRoNos. Her main research line is in the area of
statistics for expert assessments and imprecise data represented through
(fuzzy) sets. Other lines of research includes flood risk,
non-parametric methods and bootstrapping and intelligent data analysis.
University of Technology of Compiègne, France
Thierry Denoeux graduated in 1985 as an engineer from the Ecole des Ponts
ParisTech in Paris, and received a doctorate from the same institution in
1989. Currently, he is Full Professor (Exceptional Class) with the
Department of Information Processing Engineering at the Université de
Technologie de Compiègne (UTC), France, and deputy director of the
Heudiasyc research Lab (UMR 7253). His research interests concern the
management of uncertainty in intelligent systems. His main contributions
are in the theory of belief functions with applications to pattern
recognition, data mining and information fusion. He has published more
than 200 journal and conference papers in this area. He is the
Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Approximate Reasoning},
and an Associate Editor of several journals including Fuzzy Sets and
Systems and the International Journal of Uncertainty, Fuzziness and
Knowledge-Based Systems (IJUFKS).
Bocconi University, Italy
Massimo Marinacci is Professor in the Department of Decision Sciences of Bocconi University and, since 2011, he holds the AXA-Bocconi Chair in Risk. A fellow of the Econometric Society, his main research interests are in Decision Theory and Applied Mathematics.
His web page is: http://www.igier.unibocconi.it/marinacci