Professor Emilio Porcu

Professor Emilio Porcu received his Ph.D. in statistics in 2005. He became a full professor in 2012, Chair of Statistics at Newcastle University and then at Trinity College, Dublin, at the School of Computer Science and Statistics. He is Professor of Statistics and Data Science at Khalifa University since August 2020, and a member of the Biotechnology Research Center under Dr Habiba Al Safar. He is an adjoint professor at Trinity College, Dublin. His previous roles include Senior Scientist at the MIDAS Research Center on Data Complexity in Santiago, Chile, co-Chair of Spatial Analytics in Newcastle, and Adjoint Professor at ADAPT Trinity College.

Professor Porcu’s main research interests lie within Statistical and Machine Learning, Data Science, and Spatial Statistics. He has published over 160 peer reviewed papers in top journals in Statistics, Machine Learning, and Mathematics. Applications of his research have involved climate change, natural and anthropogenic catastrophes, weather forecast as well as spatial criminology. More recently, he has been increasingly involved in research related to Health Data Science, with broad applications to computational genetics, genomics, and aging.