Francesca Chiaromonte is an Italian

statistician A statistician is a person who works with theoretical or applied statistics. The profession exists in both the private and public sectors. It is common to combine statistical knowledge with expertise in other subjects, and statisticians may wor ...

known for her work on

statistical genetics Statistical genetics is a scientific field concerned with the development and application of statistical methods for drawing inferences from genetic data. The term is most commonly used in the context of human genetics. Research in statistical gen ...

and dimensionality reduction. She works at

Pennsylvania State University The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State or PSU) is a Public university, public Commonwealth System of Higher Education, state-related Land-grant university, land-grant research university with campuses and facilities throughout Pennsylvan ...

as the Dorothy Foehr Huck and J. Lloyd Huck Chair in Statistics for the Life Sciences, professor of statistics, and director of the Genome Sciences Institute, and in the Institute of Economics of the

Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies , latin_name = , image = , motto = L'eccellenza come disciplina , mottoeng = Committed to excellence , established = 1987 from previously existing institutions , type = State-supported , administrative_staff ...

in Italy as the scientific coordinator for Economics and Management in the era of Data Science.

Education and career

Chiaromonte earned a laurea in statistics and economist from the Sapienza University of Rome. She completed her Ph.D. in 1996 at the

University of Minnesota The University of Minnesota, formally the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, (UMN Twin Cities, the U of M, or Minnesota) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul, Tw ...

; her dissertation, ''A Reduction Paradigm for Multivariate Laws'', was supervised by R. Dennis Cook. She became an assistant professor of statistics at the Pennsylvania State University in 1998.

Recognition

In 2016, Chiaromonte was elected as a

Fellow of the American Statistical Association Like many other academic professional societies, the American Statistical Association (ASA) uses the title of Fellow of the American Statistical Association as its highest honorary grade of membership. The number of new fellows per year is limited ...

"for outstanding collaborative work in high-throughput biology, contributions to methodology in statistics and bioinformatics, commitment to interdisciplinary research, and leadership in developing training programs at the interface of statistics, computation and the life sciences". She was given the Huck Chair in 2019. She was named to the 2022 class of Fellows of the

Institute of Mathematical Statistics The Institute of Mathematical Statistics is an international professional and scholarly society devoted to the development, dissemination, and application of statistics and probability. The Institute currently has about 4,000 members in all parts o ...

, for "outstanding contributions to methodology for the analysis of large, complex and structured data, in particular to the fields of sufficient dimension reduction and envelope model, for outstanding interdisciplinary work in the “Omics” and in the biomedical sciences, and for leadership in interdisciplinary training and mentoring efforts".

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Chiaromonte, Francesca Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Italian statisticians Women statisticians Sapienza University of Rome alumni University of Minnesota alumni Pennsylvania State University faculty Academic staff of the Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies Fellows of the American Statistical Association Fellows of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics