Caterina Liberati

Caterina Liberati is an Associate Professor of Economic Statistics at the University of Milano-Bicocca. She holds a PhD in Statistics for Experimental Research from the University of Bologna, where she also served as a postdoc for four years within the Department of Statistics. Throughout her academic career, she has been a visiting fellow at the Department of Statistics and Operations Research at the University of Tennessee and at the Business School of the University of Edinburgh. Caterina is an active member of several several distinguished academic organizations, including the Italian Statistical Society, the European Network for Business and Industrial Statistics, and the International Society for Business and Industrial Statistics (ISBIS), where she served as a council member from 2019 to 2023. She has also participated in the program committees of various international statistical conferences and she is a member of the Steering Committee of the International Conference on Advanced Research Methods and Analytics (CARMA), which focuses on the application of internet and big data in economics and social sciences. Her research has been published in several scientific journals, including Advances in Data Analysis and Classification, Journal of the Operational Research Society, Annals of Operations Research, and Technological Forecasting and Social Change. Her current research centers on the use of unconventional data to analyze the economic activity of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).

Keywords: Supervised Learning, Unsupervised Classification, Unconventional Data, SMEs, Digital Economy