Biography
Carlo Cavicchia, an Assistant Professor of Statistics at the Econometric Institute of Erasmus University Rotterdam, focuses his research on the methodological and computational aspects of data analysis, including latent variable models, unsupervised classification, and model-based composite indicators. He teaches statistics and data science courses at both graduate and undergraduate levels and supervises MSc and BSc theses in Econometrics, Statistics, and Data Science. Carlo is part of the sector plan SSH Breed (Theme 4: Digital decision support).
He serves as the IASC data analysis competition officer (2023-2025) and has held positions such as National board member (2021-2022) and National coordinator of y-SIS (2022). As an active member of the academic community, Carlo reviews for several statistics journals and has organized conferences like DSSV 2020 and DSSV-ECDA 2021. He also participates in program committees for conferences including CLADAG-VOC 2025, CLADAG 2023, IES 2023, IES 2022, and SIS 2022.
In 2024, Carlo Cavicchia was awarded the IFCS Chikio Hayashi award.
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Work
- Mariaelena Bottazzi Schenone, Carlo Cavicchia, Maurizio Vichi & Giorgia Zaccaria (2025) - Ultrametric Factor Analysis for building hierarchies of reliable and unidimensional latent concepts - Psychometrika - doi: 10.1017/psy.2025.6
- Rick Willemsen, Carlo Cavicchia, Wilco van den Heuvel & Michel van de Velden (2025) - An Exact Solution Approach for Hierarchical Clustering - [link]
- Rick Willemsen, Carlo Cavicchia, Wilco van den Heuvel & Michel van de Velden (2025) - An Exact Solution Approach for Hierarchical Clustering - INFORMS Journal on Computing - doi: 10.1287/ijoc.2024.0903
- Alfonso Iodice D’Enza, Angelos Markos, Michel van de Velden & Carlo Cavicchia (2025) - manydist: Unbiased Distances for Mixed-Type Data - [link]
- Michel van de Velden, Alfonso Iodice D’Enza, Angelos Markos & Carlo Cavicchia (2024) - Unbiased mixed variables distance - [link]
- Carlo Cavicchia, Maurizio Vichi & Giorgia Zaccaria (2024) - Parsimonious ultrametric Gaussian mixture models - Statistics and Computing, 34 (3) - doi: 10.1007/s11222-024-10405-9 - [link]
- Michel van de Velden, Alfonso Iodice D’Enza, Angelos Markos & Carlo Cavicchia (2024) - A general framework for implementing distances for categorical variables - Pattern Recognition, 153 - doi: 10.1016/j.patcog.2024.110547 - [link]
- Carlo Cavicchia & Pasquale Sarnacchiaro (2024) - A new hierarchical composite indicator model for ranking the top 20 European football teams - Quality and Quantity, 58 (5), 4033-4051 - doi: 10.1007/s11135-024-01842-9 - [link]
- Carlo Cavicchia, Pasquale Sarnacchiaro, Maurizio Vichi & Giorgia Zaccaria (2024) - A model-based ultrametric composite indicator for studying waste management in Italian municipalities - Computational Statistics, 39 (1), 21-50 - doi: 10.1007/s00180-023-01333-9 - [link]
- Carlo Cavicchia & Maurizio Vichi (2024) - Building Hierarchies of Factors with Disjoint Factor Analysis - doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-54468-2_1 - [link]
- Carlo Cavicchia (2025) - CLADAG-VOC 2025 (Member of programme committee)
Activity: Organising and contributing to an event › Academic - Carlo Cavicchia (2025) - IES 2025: Innovation & Society: Statistics and Data Science for Evaluation and Quality (Member of programme committee)
Activity: Organising and contributing to an event › Academic - Carlo Cavicchia (2025) - Statistics and Computing (Journal) (Reviewer)
Activity: Publication Peer-review › Academic - Carlo Cavicchia (2024) - University of Naples Federico II (Visiting researcher)
Activity: Visiting an external academic institution › Academic - Carlo Cavicchia (2024) - 18th conference of the International Federation of Classification Societies (Invited speaker)
Activity: Invited talk › Academic - Carlo Cavicchia (2024) - SIS 2024: 52nd Scientific Meeting of the Italian Statistical Society (Invited speaker)
Activity: Invited talk › Academic - Carlo Cavicchia (2024) - Convex Clustering of Mixed Numerical and Categorical Data (Invited speaker)
Activity: Invited talk › Academic - Carlo Cavicchia (2024) - Journal of Computational Social Science (Journal) (Reviewer)
Activity: Editorial work › Academic - Carlo Cavicchia (2024) - Journal of Infrastructure, Policy and Development (Journal) (Reviewer)
Activity: Editorial work › Academic - Carlo Cavicchia (2024) - Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series B: Statistical Methodology (Journal) (Reviewer)
Activity: Editorial work › Academic
- Carlo Cavicchia (2025) - ISI Elected Membership
- Carlo Cavicchia (2024) - IFCS Chikio Hayashi Award
- Carlo Cavicchia (2023) - ESE Starter grant
- Carlo Cavicchia (2023) - National Qualification for Associate Professor (Italy, ASN II Fascia) in Statistics (SC 13/D1)
- Carlo Cavicchia (2017) - Research Grant for Junior Researcher "Avvio alla ricerca"
- Carlo Cavicchia (2017) - Award in Stats under the Starts
- Carlo Cavicchia (2016) - PhD scholarship (3 years)
