Research Associate

email: benvenuto@dima.unige.it

tel : 0033 (0)10 353 66 44

@MIDA group
DIMA, Università di Genova, Via Dodecaneso 35, Genova, Italia 
 

INTERESTS

Inverse problems, regularization theory, statistical methods, Poisson data, risk estimation
Applications to imaging and signal reconstruction, machine learning and statistical prediction (astronomy, solar flare and extreme event forecasting and biomedicine) 

My research is primarily concerned with linear(ized) inverse problems and their applications, with particular emphasis on regularization theory. My interest focuses on statistical and variational approaches to discrete inverse problems, Maximum likelihood and MAP estimation, and iterative reconstruction methods. I'm currently studying regularization method optimality (optimal recovery) ranging from seminconvergence analysis to minimax criteria.

PREVIOUS POSITIONS

October 2013 - July 2015. Alan Bensoussan ERCIM  fellow, DEFI group member. École Polytechnique, CMAP, Route de Saclay, 91128 Palaiseau Cedex FRANCE 

April 2011 - September 2013. Research fellow, FP7 Cooperation Project “High Energy Solar Physics data in Europe” (HESPE), Dipartimento di Matematica, Università di Genova.

January 2010 - March 2011. Technical programmer at Hylasoft S.p.A. and Elsag Datamat consultant.

January 2007 - December 2010. Ph.D. fellow student in Mathematics and applications, Dipartimento di Matematica, Università di Genova.

May 2006 - December 2006. Research fellow, Dipartimento di Informatica, Università di Genova.

EDUCATION

Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics, Université de Nice-Sophia Antipolis, Università di Genova (2007 - 2010). Jointly supervised thesis: A study of iterative methods in image reconstruction and applications. Pdf

M.Sc. in Pure Mathematics, Università di Genova (2005). 
Thesis: Anholonomic variational calculus and control theory: a geometric approach Pdf