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Alessandro is currently an Assistant Professor of Data Science and Applied Statistics in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at Purdue University Fort Wayne. He received a BSc and an MSc in Mathematics from Università degli Studi di Milano (Milan, Italy), a PhD in Mathematical Analysis from SISSA (Trieste, Italy), and an MSc and a PhD in Statistics from McMaster University (Hamilton, Canada). He has been a Postdoctoral Fellow in Applied Mathematics at McMaster University, a Part-time Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at University of Ottawa, and a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Departments of Psychiatry and Computing Science at the University of Alberta.

His current research interests are in the applications of data science and mathematical methods in the biological and medical sciences. He is currently supported by the Lilly Endowment Grant “Indiana Digital Crossroads” (2021-2026), the NSF-Simons Pilot Project Program Grant (2021-2023), and the NSF DMS/NIGMS Grant (2022-2025). He has received the PFW Sigma-Xi Researcher of the Year Award (2020), Purdue Service-Learning Fellowship (2021), and Pippert Research Scholar Award (2021).