Marco Dalla Pria
PhD candidate in Modeling and Data Science
University of Turin, Italy
Department of Economics, Social Studies, Applied Mathematics and Statistics (ESOMAS)
Corso Unione Sovietica, 218 bis
Torino - Italy[email protected]
About
I'm Marco Dalla Pria, a third year PhD student in Modeling and Data Science in Turin, Italy.
I carry out my research activities under the supervision of prof. Matteo Ruggiero and prof. Dario Spanò; we're currently working on duality methods in Bayesian inference for hidden Markov models.
Research Interests
Nonparametric Bayesian Statistics
Combinatorial Stochastic Processes
Fragmentation-Coalescence Models
Publications
Dalla Pria, M., Ruggiero, M., Spanò, D., "A Metropolis-Hastings for sampling coagulated partitions", in New Trends in Bayesian Statistics - Collection of proceedings from BAYSM 2023 and contributions from j-ISBA members, 2026
Amongero, M., Buttigliero, Y.F., Dalla Pria, M., Fasano, A., "Contributed discussion on A Tree Perspective on Stick-Breaking Models in Covariate-Dependent Mixtures by Horiguchi, Chan, and Ma", in Bayesian Analysis, 2025
Dalla Pria, M., Ruggiero, M., Spanò, D., "Exact sampling of two coagulated partitions", in Methodological and Applied Statistics and Demography III - SIS 2024, Short Papers, Plenary and Specialized Sessions. Springer Cham, 2024, ISBN 978-3-031-64346-0
Dalla Pria M. and Montagna S., "The Hierarchical Beta-Bernoulli Process as Out-of-Scope Query Detector", in Book of Short Papers, SIS 2023 - Statistical Learning, Sustainability and Impact Evaluation. Pearson, 2023, ISBN 9788891935618AAVV, 560-565.
Forthcoming
Dalla Pria, M., Ruggiero M., Spanò D., "Exact inference via quasi-conjugacy in two-parameter Poisson--Dirichlet hidden Markov models"
In preparation
Dalla Pria, M., Ruggiero M., Spanò D., "Exangeable Partition Ensembles"
Dalla Pria, M., Ruggiero M., Spanò D., "Generalised Bayesian Consensus Clustering"
Personal Interests
I grown up in Jesolo, a small town near Venice, in North Italy.
My passion for music led me to learn to play electric bass and guitar, to learn the basics of music production, mixing and mastering, and eventually to record two studio albums with my bands.
During my studies in Milan I had the occasion to cultivate my passion in the college radio as host and director of radio programming.
Education
PhD in Modeling and Data Science - University of Turin (ongoing)
M.Sc. in Stochastics and Data Science - University of Turin (2022)
B.S. in Statistics and Economics - University of Milan-Bicocca (2019)
Contributed talks
Tracking Diversity in Time @ IMS International Conference on Statistics and Data Science (ICSDS). Seville (Spain), Dec. 15-18, 2025
Exact Sampling of Two Coagulated Partitions @ 52nd Scientific Meeting of the Italian Statistical Society. Bari (Italy). June 17-20, 2024
The Hiererchical Beta-Bernoulli Process as Out-of-Scope Query Detector @ SIS 2023 - Statistical Learning, Sustainability and Impact Evaluation. Ancona (Italy). June 21-23, 2023
Inference in Petrov's Diffusion @ Turin-Bath PhD Workshop in Applied Probability and Statistics. Turin (Italy). June 19-21, 2023.
Poster sessions
Optimal Filtering for 2-parameter Poisson-Dirichlet Diffusions @ SISBAYES 2025. Padua (IT). Sept 4-5, 2025
Optimal Filtering for 2-parameter Poisson-Dirichlet Diffusions @ ISBA's BNP14 World Meeting. Los Angeles (USA). June 23-27, 2025
Optimal Filtering for 2-parameter Poisson-Dirichlet Diffusions @ BISP14 Workshop. Milan (Italy). May 27-28, 2025
Filtering 2-parameter Poisson-Dirichlet Diffusions @ 2024 ISBA World Meeting. Venice (Italy). July 1-7, 2024.
A Metropolis-Hastings for Coagulated Partitions @ BAYSM 2024. Venice (Italy). June 29-30, 2024.
Other activities
Research fellowship in "Consensus clustering using two-parameter Poisson-Dirichlet distributions" @ University of Turin, Nov 2025 - Apr 2026
Teaching Assistant in Statistical Inference @ University of Turin (Italy), Sep-Dec 2023, 2024, 2025
Visiting PhD student @ University of Warwick (UK), Feb-May 2024
Math PhD seminars @ University of Turin (Italy), "Il processo Beta-Bernoulli gerarchico come rilevatore di query Out-of-Scope", 22 March 2023
Awards and Distinctions
Student paper award recipient @ IMS ICSDS 2025
Poster and travel award recipient @ ISBA's BNP14
Institute of Mathematical Statistics - Student puzzle 52: solved!