Luca Scrucca
Professor Of Statistics
Umbria, Italy
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Top SchoolLuca Scrucca is a Full Professor of Statistics with over two decades of academic and research experience, now at the University of Bologna after a long tenure at the University of Perugia. His expertise spans statistical and machine learning methods with particular strength in mixture models for model-based clustering and classification, dimension reduction and regression graphics, and evolutionary algorithms. He serves as an associate editor for Journal of Statistical Software and Statistics and Computing, reflecting a strong presence in the statistical software and computational research community. Trained with a PhD from Perugia and an MS from the University of Minnesota, he combines rigorous theoretical grounding with practical algorithm development. Based in Umbria, Italy, he maintains an active web presence where he shares research and software tools that bridge methodology and applied data analysis.
10 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Statistics, PhD, Statistics at Università degli Studi di PerugiaUniversity of Minnesota Twin Cities
English, Italian
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Github Skills (118)
mixture10
optimization10
genetic-algorithm10
r10
charts10
palette10
genetic10
caret10
optimisation10
r-package10
color-palette9
syntax9
hugo-theme9
ui-theme9
density-estimation9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
luca-scr/GA
Jan 2018 - Oct 2022
An R package for optimization using genetic algorithms
Contributions:34 commits, 3 PRs, 45 pushes in 4 years 9 months
r-packagegeneticoptimizationgenetic-algorithmsgenetic-algorithm
luca-scr/qcc
Oct 2015 - Nov 2022
An R package for Quality Control Charts
Contributions:2 reviews, 35 commits, 12 PRs in 7 years 2 months
r-packagechartsquality-controlrstatsquality
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