Regional Statistics Conference 2026

Regional Statistics Conference 2026

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Putting Statistical Modernisation into Practice at the National Statistics Office, Malta

Organiser: Dorothy Galea Gauci

Participants:

  • Mikhail Azzopardi
  • David Paul Dimech
  • Denise Magrin
  • Etienne Caruana

Business and Industrial Statistics in the era of data science

Organiser: Elisabetta Carfagna

Participants:

  • Matilde Bini
  • Daniel Jeske
  • Prof. Rosanna Verde

From Data to Policy: Is There Evidence? Rethinking Representativity and Quality in Contemporary Data Landscapes

Organiser: Gaia Bertarelli

Participants:

  • Gaia Bertarelli
  • Denise Britz do Nascimento Silva
  • Ralf Münnich
  • Stefano Campostrini

Read to Lead: Empowering Statisticians through Leadership Books

Organiser: Amanda Golbeck

Participants:

  • Prof. Blagica Novkovska
  • Prof. Ksenija Dumicic
  • James Cochran
  • Jessica Utts

Statistical Innovation for Complex Data and Inference

Organiser: Andrea Cristina Garcia Angulo

Participants:

  • Jing Zhou
  • Diego Nascimento

Industrial Process Monitoring with Streaming and High-Dimensional Data

Organiser: BIAGIO PALUMBO

Participants:

  • Sotiris Bersimis
  • Christian Capezza
  • Mengyi Gong

Modern Statistical Learning and Inference in High-Dimensional and Complex Data Environments

Organiser: Syed Ejaz Ahmed

Participants:

  • Subharup Guha
  • Yi Li
  • Mulugeta Gebregziabher
  • Malka Gorfine

Advances in Multivariate Compositional Data Analysis

Organiser: Michele Gallo

Participants:

  • Gianna Serafina Monti
  • Violetta Simonacci
  • Chiara Passamonti
  • Corrado Crocetta

Recent Progress in the Development of Statistical Registers in Europe

Organiser: Jean-Michel Durr

Participants:

  • Meryem Demirci
  • Sorcha OCallaghan
  • Jorge Vega
  • Hien Pham
  • Romain Avouac
  • Mr Jean-Michel Durr

Modern Methods for Anomalies and Extremes in Diverse Environmental Data Types

Organiser: Amira Sherif M. Elayouty

Participants:

  • Daniela Castro-Camilo
  • Elvira Romano
  • Giulia Bertagnolli
  • Ethel Marian Scott

Artificial intelligence and data science: the role of ISI associations - Panel discussion

Organiser: Elisabetta Carfagna

Participants:

  • Fabrizio Ruggeri
  • Matilde Bini
  • Francesco Palumbo
  • Prof. Mark Podolskij
  • Ralf Münnich

Advances in Multivariate Statistical Hypothesis Testing

Organiser: Filipe Marques

Participants:

  • Regina Bispo
  • Talha Arslan
  • Carlos Coelho
  • Johan Ferreira

Explainable data science

Organiser: Elisabetta Carfagna

Participants:

  • Francesco Sovrano
  • Fatima Rabia Yapicioglu
  • Tuwe Löfström-Cavallin
  • Fabio Vitali

Advanced Statistical Methods for Complex Data

Organiser: Antonio Balzanella

Participants:

  • Raffaele Mattera
  • Orietta Nicolis
  • Paula Moraga
  • Ndèye Niang

Recent Developments in Symbolic and Distributional Data Analysis

Organiser: Rosanna Verde

Participants:

  • Prof. Rosanna Verde
  • Vladimir Batagelj
  • Prof. Paula Brito
  • Oldemar Rodriguez Rojas
  • Antonio Balzanella

AI and Advanced Statistical Modelling in Digital Health. Applications to brain tumors (Y-BIS/ISBIS)

Organiser: Ozan Kocadagli

Participants:

  • Nihan Acar Denizli
  • Zeynep Filiz Eren
  • Matilde Bini

Novel Statistical Approaches to Risk Analysis for Sustainability and Responsible Decisions.

Organiser: Francesco Palumbo

Participants:

  • Alfonso Iodice D'Enza
  • Maria Iannario
  • Claudia Tarantola
  • Yujia Chen

Statistical modelling and machine learning for healthcare and personalized medicine

Organiser: Dirk Husmeier

Participants:

  • Vinny Davies
  • Caroline Roney
  • Agnieszka Borowska

Uncertainty Quantification for Mathematical Models

Organiser: Vinny Davies

Participants:

  • James Salter
  • Benn Macdonald
  • Zack Xuereb Conti
  • Domenic DiFrancesco

Innovative Co-operation in Statistical Literacy

Organiser: Ms Reija Helenius

Participants:

  • Irena Ograjensek
  • Elisa Falck
  • Jose Martins
  • Lara Friggieri Cordina

Innovative survey methods for the public good

Organiser: Denise Britz do Nascimento Silva

Participants:

  • Fulvia Mecatti
  • Clelia Di Serio
  • Olga Maslovskaya
  • Dr Luca Di Gennaro

Local Data, Real-World Impact: Innovative Small Area Estimation for Public Health and Social Policy

Organiser: Gaia Bertarelli

Participants:

  • Monica Pratesi
  • Maria Francesca Marino
  • Maria Bugallo Porto
  • Aldo Gardini
  • Angelo Moretti

vISIon and the Future of Official Statistics: From Global Dialogue to Local Practice

Organiser: Dr Luca Di Gennaro

Participants:

  • Fabrizio Ruggeri
  • Carlo Cavicchia
  • Alejandra Avalos Pacheco
  • Daniela Castro-Camilo

Data Quality for Citizen Data

Organiser: Dr Luca Di Gennaro

Participants:

  • Cyrus Darpoh
  • Monica Pratesi
  • Francesca Perucci
  • Dilek Fraisl
  • Elizabeth Lockwood

Intersectionality and Citizens’ Data: Complementing Official Statistics for Inclusive Decision-Making

Organiser: Dr Luca Di Gennaro

Participants:

  • Juilio Lopez
  • Elizabeth Lockwood
  • Tony Labillois
  • Alistair DeGaetano
  • Dilek Fraisl

New paradigms and challenges of sampling statistics in the digital era

Organiser: Fulvia Mecatti

Participants:

  • Gaia Bertarelli
  • Dr Cristiano Ferraz
  • Yves Tillé
  • Jorge Luis Rueda-Sánchez

Innovations in Territorial Statistics for social impact

Organiser: Teodóra Brandmüller

Participants:

  • Petre Turliu
  • Lewis Dijkstra
  • Ana Moreno Monroy
  • Joana Malta

Advances in Deep Learning for Statistical Inference and Generative Modeling

Organiser: Xingqiu Zhao

Participants:

  • Yuanyuan Lin
  • Gen Li
  • Wen Su
  • Xiangbin Hu

Statistically Principled Environmental AI

Organiser: Daniela Castro-Camilo

Participants:

  • Tiffany Vlaar
  • Noel Cressie
  • Raphael Huser
  • Ethel Marian Scott

Modern Methods for Smarter Data: From Metadata to Data Quality Techniques in Central Bank Statistics

Organiser: Karen Caruana

Participants:

  • Ibrahim Cagan Kaya
  • Sarah Axiaq
  • Giulia Maria Tabone

Visible and invisible inequalities: insights on data and methods

Organiser: Monica Pratesi

Participants:

  • Monica Pratesi
  • Antonella D'Agostino
  • Etienne Caurana
  • Angeles Sanchez
  • Gaia Bertarelli

Measuring and Modeling Gender Dynamics: Advances in Statistical Methods for Education and Social Science

Organiser: Flaminia Musella

Participants:

  • Prof. Ksenija Dumicic
  • Federica Nicolussi
  • Ingrid Mauerer
  • Valentina Rotondi
  • Johannes Bleher

Amortized simulation-based inference

Organiser: Matthew Sainsbury-Dale

Participants:

  • Raphael Huser
  • Paul Bürkner
  • Lidia Andre
  • Andrew Zammit Mangion

Advances in Methods for Scarce and Missing Data

Organiser: Katarzyna Reluga

Participants:

  • Katarzyna Reluga
  • Song Liu
  • Naomi Diz Rosales
  • Setareh Ranjbar
  • Prof. Stefan Sperlich

Advances in Robust Statistical Inference for High-Dimensional Data

Organiser: Angela Andreella

Participants:

  • Chiara Gaia Magnani
  • Anna Vesely
  • Samuel Davenport

Statistics and Data Science in Sports

Organiser: Marica Manisera

Participants:

  • Dimitrios Karlis
  • Daniel Fernández
  • Andreas Groll
  • Paola Zuccolotto

Correspondence analysis and its Related Methods in Archaeology

Organiser: Eric Beh

Participants:

  • Michele Gallo
  • Kris Lockyear
  • Rosaria Lombardo
  • Michel Van de Velden
  • Gianmarco Alberti

Integrative Forecasting Frameworks: Statistical, Adaptive and AI-Driven Approaches

Organiser: Karen Caruana

Participants:

  • Alan Cassar
  • Roxanne Spiteri
  • Mohamed Yagob
  • Sarah Spiteri
  • Matteo Panfilo

Using Artificial Intelligence for Official Statistics

Organiser: Pietro Gennari

Participants:

  • Oliver John M. Chinganya
  • Vytas Vaiciulis
  • Petre Turliu
  • Pietro Gennari
  • Boriska Toth

Opening plenary talk

Organiser: Fabrizio Ruggeri

Participants:

  • Etienne Caruana

Recent advancement in international migration surveys in the Mediterranean region

Organiser: Jean-Michel Durr

Participants:

  • Hien Pham
  • Karima Belhaj
  • Meryem Demirci
  • Diego Iturralde
  • Mr Jean-Michel Durr

Learning Dynamic Worlds: Advances in Functional and Spatio-Temporal Data Science

Organiser: Elvira Romano

Participants:

  • Antonio Lepore
  • Giada Adelfio
  • Claire Ann Miller
  • Davide Forcina

Methods and Applications of Statistical Data Fusion and Integration

Organiser: Gong Zhang

Participants:

  • Finn Kristian Lindgren
  • Jafet Belmont Osuna
  • Carles Milà
  • Sebastian Mutz

Environment and gender population dynamics: What is the nexus on global and regional level?

Organiser: Miss Milica Maricic

Participants:

  • Marina Ignjatović
  • Prof. Blagica Novkovska
  • Natalija Mirić
  • Prof. Ksenija Dumicic

Advances in Statistical Learning

Organiser: Carlo Cavicchia

Participants:

  • Saverio Ranciati
  • Marten Soer
  • Aurore ARCHIMBAUD
  • Dalila Failli

Whose Knowledge Counts? Rethinking Inclusion and Epistemic Justice in Statistics

Organiser: Daniela Castro-Camilo

Participants:

  • Pierre-Philippe Dechant
  • Rukia Nuermaimaiti
  • Orietta Nicolis
  • Craig Alexander

Data Science, Artificial Intelligence for Official Statistics: Toward a New Culture

Organiser: Dr Osuolale Peter Popoola

Participants:

  • Chigozie Kelechi Acha
  • Mercy A Lyons
  • Mutairu Oyewale Akintunde
  • Kehinde Kazeem Adesanya
  • Osuolale Peter Popoola

Methodological and computational advances in omics data analysis

Organiser: Rebecca Deek

Participants:

  • Hongzhe Li
  • Sandra Safo
  • Sarah Samorodnitsky
  • Soumik Purkayastha

Democracy Dies In Darkness Without Official Statistics

Organiser: Dr Luca Di Gennaro

Participants:

  • Tony Labillois
  • Elizabeth Lockwood
  • Francesca Perucci
  • Oliver J. M Chinganya

Novel Approaches and Real-life Applications in Data Analysis

Organiser: Monique Borg Inguanez

Participants:

  • Fiona Sammut
  • Liberato Camilleri
  • Mishayel Rivoltini
  • David Paul Suda
  • Mr. Matt Attard

Showcasing Technical Research by Women in Statistical Science in Portugal

Organiser: Dr Vanda Lourenco

Participants:

  • Amanda Golbeck
  • Raquel Menezes
  • Lígia Henriques-Rodrigues
  • Elsa Moreira

Advances in computational statistics: European perspectives and innovations

Organiser: Ana Belen Ramos Guajardo

Participants:

  • Maria Brigida Ferraro
  • Eva Cantoni
  • Bojana Milosevic
  • Kalliopi Mylona

Regional analysis of service provision: statistical models, spatial disparities, and policy evaluation

Organiser: Margaret Antonicelli

Participants:

  • Margaret Antonicelli
  • Antonio Gattulli
  • Venera Tomaselli
  • Tommaso Filì
  • Andrea Ciacci
  • Enrico Ivaldi

Advances in Bayesian Modeling

Organiser: Refik Soyer

Participants:

  • Vadim Sokolov
  • David Rios-Insua
  • Fabrizio Ruggeri
  • Nicholas Polson

Statistical Modeling of Complex Data based on Generalized Additive Models

Organiser: Thomas Kneib

Participants:

  • Matteo Fasiolo
  • Isa Marques
  • Haavard Rue
  • Thordis Thorarinsdottir
  • Andreas Groll

Data quality through dual reporting and cross-verification in financial micro-data

Organiser: Bruno Tissot

Participants:

  • Romain Vagner
  • Grzegorz Skrzypczynski
  • Murat Menguturk
  • Milla Carmellita
  • Pablo Rovira Kaltwasser

Exploring distributional insights: advancing income, wealth, and consumption analysis in the context of the G20 Data Gap Initiative

Organiser: Bruno Tissot

Participants:

  • Robert Kirchner
  • Alexander Erler
  • Ricarda Senger
  • Tobias Schmidt
  • Matteo Spuri

Using AI to strengthen data governance

Organiser: Bruno Tissot

Participants:

  • Luís Teles Dias
  • Magdalena Erdem
  • Pedro Santos Silva
  • Bilal Kurban

Statistics for Spatial and Spatio-Temporal Data in the Era of AI

Organiser: Andrew Zammit Mangion

Participants:

  • Andrew Zammit Mangion
  • Raphael Huser
  • Mikael Kuusela
  • Noel Cressie

Statistical Methods for Analyzing Intensive Longitudinal Data in the Social Sciences

Organiser: Øystein Sørensen

Participants:

  • Leonie Vogelsmeier
  • Esther Ulitzsch
  • Ethan M. McCormick
  • Charles Driver