Bio/CV | Elvezio Ronchetti

Elvezio Mauro Danilo Ronchetti

Born 1955, Swiss nationality.

Education

1979
Diploma in Mathematics at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, ETH Zürich (Polya Prize)

1982
PhD degree in Mathematics with a thesis in Statistics, ETH Zürich
Adviser: Prof. F.R. Hampel, ETH Zürich
Co-referees: Prof. I. Olkin, Stanford University (USA), Prof. C. Field, Dalhousie University, Halifax (Canada)

Employment

March-August 1983
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Mathematics, Statistics and Computing Science, Dalhousie University, Halifax (Canada)

1983-1986
Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, Princeton University (USA)

1986-2013
Professor of Statistics, Department of Econometrics, University of Geneva (Switzerland)

2014-2021
Professor of Statistics, Research Center for Statistics and Geneva School of Economics and Management,
University of Geneva (Switzerland)

2021-
Professor Emeritus, University of Geneva (Switzerland)

1996-2012
Professor of Statistics, Faculty of Economics, University of Lugano (Switzerland) (20%)

Research Interests

Robust statistics
Small sample asymptotics ; saddlepoint methods ; empirical likelihood
Estimation and inference in latent variable models
Econometrics

Languages

Italian, English, French, German

Awards

1974 Maraini prize, Liceo Cantonale, Lugano
1979 Polya prize, ETH Zürich
2001 Elected Fellow of the American Statistical Association
2008 Elected Member of the International Statistical Institute
2016 CMStatistics Award
2018 Elected Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics

Main Appointments

October 19 - 23, 1981: Invited Lecturer, Stefan Banach International Mathematical Center, Warsaw (Poland)
May 15 - 27, 1983: Invited Lecturer, Mathematical Institute, University of Oslo (Norway)
July 9 - August 11, 1984: Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, Stanford University (USA)
March 23 - April 16, 1987: Visiting Professor, Dipartimento di Scienze Statistiche, University of Perugia (Italy)
July 30 - August 16, 1987: Visiting Professor, Department of Statistics, University of Washington, Seattle (USA)
July 18 - September 10, 1988: Visiting Professor, Department of Statistics, La Trobe University, Melbourne (Australia)
April 3- 14, 1989, Invited Lecturer, Stefan Banach International Mathematical Center, Warsaw (Poland)
July 10 - August 4, 1989: Visiting Fellow, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications, Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA)
March 26 - April 2, 1992: Visiting Professor, Centro di Specializzazione e Ricerche Economico-Agrarie per il Mezzogiorno, Napoli (Italy)
November 7 - December 18, 1992: Visiting Fellow, School of Mathematical Sciences and Department of Statistics, Australian National University, Canberra (Australia)
January 31 - March 30, 1993: Visiting Scholar, Department of Statistics, Stanford University (USA)
May 23 - June 6, 1993: Visiting Professor, Department of Mathematics, Statistics and Computing Science, Dalhousie University, Halifax (Canada)
July 4 - 31, 1996: Visiting Professor, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Sydney (Australia)
May 4 - 10, 1997: Visiting Professor, Faculté des Sciences Economiques et de Gestion, University of Tunis (Tunisia)
April 3 - 18, 1999: Visiting Professor, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Sydney (Australia)
May 1 - June 3, 2000: Visiting Scholar, Dept. of Mathematics, MIT, Cambridge MA (USA)
August 1-31, 2000 Visiting Scholar, Department of Statistical Science, La Trobe University, Melbourne (Australia)
May 23 - 24, 2002: Visiting Member, The Fields Institute For Research in Mathematical Sciences, Toronto (Canada)
August 24-30, 2003: Visiting Scholar, Forschungsinstitut für Mathematik, ETH Zürich (Switzerland)
April 25-30, 2004: Visiting Scholar, Faculty of Economic and Social Sciences, Charles University, Prague (Czech Republic)
March 15 - April 8, 2005: Visiting Professor, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Sydney (Australia)
November 1 - December 2, 2007: Visiting Fellow, Centre for Mathematics and its Applications, Australian National University, Canberra (Australia)
December 3 - 16, 2007: Visiting Research Fellow, Division of Statistics, George Institute for International Health, University of Sydney (Australia)
February 1 - March 1, 2008: Visiting Professor, Dept. of Operations Research and Financial Engineering, Princeton University (USA)
January 26 - February 14, 2009: Visitor, Dept. of Statistics, Texas A&M University, College Station (USA)
May 31 - June 15, 2013: Visiting Academic, Dept. of Econometrics and Business Statistics, Monash University, Melbourne (Australia)
September 8 - 12, 2014: Visiting Fellow, Mathematical Sciences Institute, Australian National University, Canberra (Australia)

Director Undergraduate Studies, Department of Statistics, Princeton University (USA), 1984-1986.
Director Master of Science in Statistics, University of Geneva (Switzerland), 2008-2012.
Director PhD Program in Statistics, University of Geneva, 2009-2019.
Director Department of Econometrics, University of Geneva, 2001-2007.
Director Research Center for Statistics, University of Geneva, 2014-2017.

External Advisor for mathematics at Liceo Cantonale di Mendrisio (Switzerland), 1992-2000.
Member of the Swiss Federal Committee on Motor Vehicles Insurance, 1987-1992.
Associate Expert, Europe-China Management Improvement Foundation, Geneva (Switzerland), 2002-2014.
Member of the Scientific Board, Advanced School in Economics, University of Venezia (Italy), 2007-2011.
External expert, Research Assessment Exercise, Australian National University, Canberra (Australia), 2010.
External expert, Faculty Selection, Cyprus University of Technology, Limassol (Cyprus), 2010.
External expert Panel 13 (Economics, Statistics), National Agency for the Evaluation of Universities and Research Institutes (Italy), 2012-2013 and 2015-2016.
Member of the area expert pool, Swiss Finance Institute Knowledge Center, 2013-2016.
External expert, Faculty tenure, HEC, University of Lausanne, (Switzerland), 2014.
External expert, Faculty selection, Università Cattolica, Milano (Italy), 2014.
External expert, Faculty selection, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Lausanne (Switzerland), 2015 and 2016.
Assessor, Australian Research Council, 2016-present
External expert, Progetti di Ricerca di Rilevante Interesse Nazionale (PRIN 2017), Italy.
Member of the International Statistical Institute Committee on The Founders of Statistics Prize for Contemporary Research Contributions 2021, 2023, 2025.
External expert, Open Call OC-2021-2025, COST Association.

Swiss National Science Foundation
National Science Foundation, USA
National Security Agency Mathematical Program, USA
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council, Canada
Canada Council for the Arts
European Research Council
Hong Kong Research Grants
Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Israel Science Foundation
Italian Ministry of University and Research
Fund for Scientific Research, Belgium
Research Council, K.U. Leuven, Belgium
Dutch Research Council, The Netherlands
Grant Agency, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
Research Council Norway

1987 Annual Meeting of the American Statistical Association and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, San Francisco, CA (USA).
Meeting on "Data Analysis and Robustness", Ascona (Switzerland), June 29 - July 4, 1992.
Meeting on "New Approximation Techniques For Statistical Inference", Ascona (Switzerland), March 20-25, 1995.
Meeting on "Statistical Science : A Celebration in Honor of the Bi-centennial of Stefano Franscini's Birth", Ascona (Switzerland), November 18-20, 1996.
22nd European Meeting of Statisticians, Vilnius (Lithuania), August 12-18, 1998.
Meeting on "Statistics in the Sciences : Environmetrics, Genetics, and Related Topics", Ascona (Switzerland), May 24-28, 1999.
Meeting on "New Developments in Market and Credit Risk Measurement Methods", Ascona (Switzerland), June 18-23, 2000.
Meeting on "Inference and Asymptotics", Ascona (Switzerland), July 9-14, 2000.
Meeting on "Data Analysis, Robustness, and Foundations of Statistics : A Symposium on the Occasion of Frank Hampel's 60th Birthday", Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zürich (Switzerland), march 29-30, 2001.
International Conferences on "Robust Statistics", 2001 (Vorau, Austria), 2002 (Vancouver, Canada), 2003 (Antwerp, Belgium), 2006 (Lisbon, Portugal), 2007 (Buenos Aires, Argentina), 2008 (Antalya, Turkey), 2010 (Prague, Czech Republic), 2011 (Valladolid, Spain), 2013 (St. Petersburg, Russia), 2015 (Kolkata, India), 2016 (Chair, Geneva, Switzerland), 2017 (Wollongong, Australia), 2019 (Guayaquil, Ecuador), 2024 (George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA).
International Workshop "Computational and Financial Econometrics", Geneva (Switzerland), April 20-22, 2007.
International Conferences on "Robust Statistics", 2007-present.
"5th International Conference on Computing & Statistics (ERCIM 2012)", Oviedo (Spain), December 1-3, 2012.
Co-chair of the 7th ERCIM 2013 Conference on "Computational and Methodological Statistics", London (UK), December 14-16, 2013.
"5th IASC World Conference and the 21st International Conference on Computational Statistics (COMPSTAT 2014)", Geneva (Switzerland), August 19-22, 2014.

"Statistical Methods in Chemistry", ILMAC Meeting, Basel (Switzerland), October 1990.
"Large Deviations and Approximations for Small Samples", 19th European Meeting of Statisticians, Barcelona (Spain), September 2-6, 1991.
"Robust Inference and Model Building", International Statistical Institute Meeting, Seoul (South Korea), August 22-29, 2001.
"Small Sample Inference", International Conference on Current Advances and Trends in Nonparametric Statistics, Crete (Greece), July 15-19, 2002.
"Recent Developments in Robust Statistics", Institute of Mathematical Statistics 65th Annual Meeting, Banff (Canada), July 28-31, 2002.
"Robust Statistics", 9th Vilnius Conference on Probability and Statistics, Vilnius (Lithuania), June 26-July 2, 2006.

Consulting

Consulting projects at the ETH and the University of Zürich (1979-1982)
Statistical design of 3 experiments (ES 031) for 3 Spacelab missions, in collaboration with the Department of Biochemistry of the ETH Zürich (Prof. A. Cogoli, 1983)
The Nursing Homes in the Canton of Ticino (1988)
MonteShell, Milano (1989)
Logitel, Geneva (1992)
Evaluation permanente des patients admis en Centre de Traitements et de Readaptation (Canton Vaud) (1995-96)
EDF, Paris (2007)
Banco Popolare, Verona (2014)