Maria De Iorio (born 1972) is an Italian biostatistician whose research applies

Bayesian statistics Bayesian statistics ( or ) is a theory in the field of statistics based on the Bayesian interpretation of probability, where probability expresses a ''degree of belief'' in an event. The degree of belief may be based on prior knowledge about ...

and

nonparametric statistics Nonparametric statistics is a type of statistical analysis that makes minimal assumptions about the underlying distribution of the data being studied. Often these models are infinite-dimensional, rather than finite dimensional, as in parametric s ...

genomics Genomics is an interdisciplinary field of molecular biology focusing on the structure, function, evolution, mapping, and editing of genomes. A genome is an organism's complete set of DNA, including all of its genes as well as its hierarchical, ...

and

bioinformatics Bioinformatics () is an interdisciplinary field of science that develops methods and Bioinformatics software, software tools for understanding biological data, especially when the data sets are large and complex. Bioinformatics uses biology, ...

. She is a professor at the

National University of Singapore The National University of Singapore (NUS) is a national university, national Public university, public research university in Singapore. It was officially established in 1980 by the merging of the University of Singapore and Nanyang University ...

Education and career

De Iorio has a

laurea In Italy, the ''laurea'' is the main post-secondary academic degree. The name originally referred literally to the laurel wreath, since ancient times a sign of honor and now worn by Italian students right after their official graduation ceremo ...

in economics from

Bocconi University Bocconi University or Università Bocconi (formally known in Italian language, Italian as ''Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi'' – Luigi Bocconi Commercial University) is a private university in Milan, Italy. The university is consistently ...

in Italy. She completed a PhD in 2001 at

Duke University Duke University is a Private university, private research university in Durham, North Carolina, United States. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present-day city of Trinity, North Carolina, Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1 ...

in the US. Her dissertation, ''Markov Random Fields at Multiple Resolutions and an ANOVA Model for Dependent Random Measures'', was supervised by Michael L. Lavine. After postdoctoral research at the

University of Oxford The University of Oxford is a collegiate university, collegiate research university in Oxford, England. There is evidence of teaching as early as 1096, making it the oldest university in the English-speaking world and the List of oldest un ...

in England, she became a lecturer and later senior lecturer at

Imperial College London Imperial College London, also known as Imperial, is a Public university, public research university in London, England. Its history began with Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Prince Albert, husband of Queen Victoria, who envisioned a Al ...

beginning in 2003, in the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health. She moved to

University College London University College London (Trade name, branded as UCL) is a Public university, public research university in London, England. It is a Member institutions of the University of London, member institution of the Federal university, federal Uni ...

in 2011, as reader in statistics, and became professor of biostatistics there in 2015. She moved to the National University of Singapore in 2018, as head of a statistics program at Yale-NUS College. She added an affiliation with the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine of the

in 2020, and transferred to the School of Medicine as a full-time professor in 2021. She also has a joint appointment in the university's Department of Statistics & Data Science.

Recognition

De Iorio received the 2005 Research Prize of the Royal Statistical Society. She was named as a Fellow of the International Society for Bayesian Analysis in 2020.

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* 1972 births Living people Italian statisticians Italian women scientists Biostatisticians Women biostatisticians Bocconi University alumni Duke University alumni Academics of Imperial College London Academics of University College London Academic staff of the National University of Singapore Fellows of the International Society for Bayesian Analysis {{Italy-stub