Natale Carlo Lauro was born
in Naples in 1943, and graduated in Economics, with a thesis in
Statistics, at the University of Naples. He later specialized in Theory
and technique of electronic computers at the same university, and in the
Multidimensional data analysis at ISUP and INRIA (Paris) and at the
Institute of Mathematical Statistics (Tokyo).
In 1969 he began his university career at the Faculty of Economics of
the Neapolitan university as Ordinary Assistant, becoming Professor of
Statistics from 1984 to 2015. At that Faculty he was director of the
Department of Mathematics and Statistics in the period from 1991-1996
and from 1999-2005. He was founder and from 1987 to 2015 coordinator of
the Doctorate of Computational Statistics.
From 2006-2014 he was President of the Nova Universitas Interuniversity
Consortium.
He did his teaching activity at the University of Naples (1969-2015) but
he also taught courses at the Central University of Venezuela (1983,
2009), at the FAO (China, 1988-1989) and for the UNESCO (France, 1987).
Among his scientific assignments he was President of the International
Association for Statistical Computing (1991-1995), President of the
International Federation of Classification Societies (2000-2005) and
Vice-President of the International Statistical Institute (1997-1999).
He has been a member of the Scientific Committees and Organizer of
several international conferences (COMPSTAT, ISI, IFCS, ASMDA, NTTS,
PLS) as well as a member of various editorial committees of
International Journals (Journal of Classification, Computational
Statistics and Data Analysis, Research in Official Statistics, Applied
Stochastic Models and Data Analysis Computational Statistical Quarterly,
Advance in Data Analysis and Classification and a Series of Data Science
monographs.
He has been scientific coordinator of numerous national and European
projects (SODAS, TESS, ISO-3D, ASSO, VITAMIN-S, INSPECTOR, ERMIS, ESIS).
He carried out, pro bono, researches and impact assessment of projects
for interventions for Vulnerable Childhood in Sub-Saharan Africa,
Brazil, Ecuador, Mexico and Haiti on behalf of AVSI International
Non-Profit Volunteer Association.
His research interests (about 190 of published articles and books)
concerned the methodological, computational and application aspects of
Statistics. From a methodological point of view, he was interested in:
Multivariate analysis, Non-symmetric data analysis, Structural equation
models, Analysis of symbolic and categorical data. Under that of the new
technologies of: Data Science and Big Data, Data quality, Databases,
Development and evaluation of statistical software, Neural networks and
Computational Statistics Algorithms. From an application point of view,
it has developed: Econometric Innovation Models, Models for the impact
assessment of policies and regulations; Market research, Total quality,
Business performance and Customer satisfaction analysis, Biomedical data
analysis, Tourism 4.0 projects.
Currently, with the appointment of the Minister of University and
Research in 2015, he is Emeritus Professor of Statistics of the
University of Naples Federico II. He performs the function of President
of the Association of Federician Emeritus Professors.
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Publications
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