Vincenzo ESPOSITO VINZI

Professor
department: Information Systems, Decision Sciences and Statistics
Campus de Cergy
+33 (0)1 34 43 31 01
Statistical Data Analysis – Econometrics – Mathematics – Probability Theory & Mathematical Statistics
Biography

Vincenzo Esposito Vinzi is the Dean and President of ESSEC Business School since January 2018.

Born in 1970, he was a professor of statistics at the University of Naples Federico II in Italy and has been a visiting professor and lecturer at several universities and research centers throughout Europe, the United States and Asia.

He holds a Doctorate in Computational Statistics from the University of Naples Federico II as well as a Master’s in Business and Economics from the same institution. In 2007 he joined ESSEC as a professor of statistics and was elected Dean of Faculty in December 2011.

As the Dean of Academic Affairs, and consequently a member of ESSEC's Executive Committee, he was responsible for the management and development of the faculty. Recognized internationally for his expertise,  Vincenzo Esposito Vinzi is the author of approximately 80 scientific articles, and subsequently over 7,000 citations, published in international journals on topics ranging from Big Data to Business Analytics.  Between 2012 and 2015, Vincenzo Esposito Vinzi served as President of the International Society of Business and Industrial Statistics (ISBIS). 

Diplomas

  • 1997: Ph.D. in Computational Statistics (Università di Napoli Federico II Italy)
  • 1993: Master’s degree in Management and Economics (Università di Napoli Federico II Italy)
Career
Full-time academic appointments
    • 2010 – Now : Professor (ESSEC Business School France)
    • 2008 – 2012 : Visiting Professor (Università degli Studi di Cagliari Italy)
    • 2007 – 2010 : Associate Professor (ESSEC Business School France)
    • 2007 : Visiting Professor (HEC Paris France)
    • 2001 : Visiting Professor (Université Toulouse III Paul Sabatier France)
    • 2000 : Visiting Professor (Charles University Czechia)
    • 1997 – 2007 : Associate Professor of Statistics (Università di Napoli Federico II Italy)

Awards

  • 2014 : Honorable Mention 8th International Conference on Partial Least Squares and Related Methods, for the article “Quantile PLS Path Modeling” (with C. Davino).
  • 2012 : Literati Network Award for Excellence 2012: Highly Commended Award, for the article “Modeling a Causality Network for Tourism Development: An Empirical Analysis,” Journal of Modelling in Management (co-authored with Guy Assaker)
  • 2010 : Top Cited Article 2005-2010 Award. Computational Statistics and Data Analysis : PLS Path Modeling, Elsevier
  • 2010 : Most cited paper (2005-2010) published in “Computational Statistics and Data Analysis”: PLS Generalised Linear Regression, Elsevier
  • 2005 : Winner of the “Pierre Vernimmen-BNP Paris Teaching Awards” 2005 at the HEC School of Management for the quality of the pedagogical relationships with students (MBA and Doctoral programmes), the teaching method, the mastery of the taught subjects, the innovative features of the course and the quality of the used teaching tools (HEC Paris, France)
  • 2001 : Honoured in the “Pierre Vernimmen-BNP Paris” Teaching Awards 2001 at the HEC School of Management (HEC Paris, France)
  • 2001 : Decorated with the ISOSS (Islamic Society of Statistical Sciences) Award in recognition of his contribution to the development of statistical sciences (Islamic countries society for statistical sciences (ISOSS), Pakistan)

Grants

  • 1998 : Post-Doctoral Fellowship (Università di Napoli Federico II, Italy)

Journal articles

Book chapters

Conference Proceedings

Presentations at an Academic or Professional conference

Thesis co-director

  • 2012 – 2016 : Valuing Social Media (ESSEC Business School France)

Information Systems, Decision Sciences and Statistics

  • 2015 – 2015 : “Composite-based Path Modeling for Multi-Bock Data Analysis”, Research Seminar (Università degli Studi di Cagliari Italy)
  • 2014 – 2014 : “Component-based Path Modeling”, Tutorial for specialized audience at the 7th International Conference of the ERCIM Working Group on Computational and Methodological Statistics”Component-based Path Modeling”, Tutoriel pour une audience expérimentée à la 7ème Conférence Internationale du ERCIM Working Group on Computational and Methodological Statistics (European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics (ERCIM) France)
  • 2012 – 2012 : “PLS Path Modeling and PLS Regression”, Pre-Conference PLS 2012 Doctoral Workshop (The Sensometric Society United States of America)
  • 2012 – 2012 : “A 3-day Course on PLS Path Modeling: Basic Concepts and Foundations, Advances and Applications”. Training course for Researchers and Executives (Association for Information Systems (AIS) United States of America)
  • 2011 – 2011 : “PLS Predictive Path Models with applications to Customer Satisfaction Measurement and Sensory Data Analysis”, ISBIS Sardegna International Statistics Summer School (Università degli Studi di Cagliari Italy)
  • 2011 – 2011 : “Statistical Soft Modeling for Measuring Customer Satisfaction via Composite Indicators”, Post-graduate course (Università degli Studi di Cagliari Italy)
  • 2010 – 2010 : “PLS Path Modeling with XLSTAT-PLSPM”, Pre-Conference Sensometrics’10 Workshop (The Sensometric Society Netherlands)
  • 2008 – 2010 : “Regression and Analysis of Variance” – Training course for the EUROSTAT (Statistical Office of the European Union) junior and senior executives (Eurostat Luxembourg)
  • 2008 – 2010 : “Factor Analysis and Classification” – Training course for the EUROSTAT (Statistical Office of the European Union) junior and senior executives (Eurostat Luxembourg)
  • 2009 – 2009 : “A Joint Partial Least Squares Component-based Approach to Structural Equation Modeling and Multi-block Data Analysis” – Institut de Recherche Mathématique Avancée, Université de Strasbourg (Université Strasbourg I France)
  • 2009 – 2009 : “A 3-day Course on PLS Path Modeling: Basic Concepts and Foundations, Advances and Applications”. Training course for Researchers and Executives (Addinsoft France)
  • 2009 – 2009 : “Component-based Structural Equation Models: the PLS Path Modelling Approach” (Sorbonne Université France)
  • 2009 – 2009 : “PLS Path Modeling: A Comprehensive Course” (Lillehammer University College Norway)
  • 2009 – 2009 : “PLS Path Modeling: Methodological Foundations, Recent Developments and Software Applications” – Tutorial at the 6th International Conference on Partial Least Squares and Related Methods (Peking University China)
  • 2009 – 2009 : “PLS Path Modeling for Consumer Analysis: estimation algorithm, assessment tools and applications with XLSTAT-PLSPM software” Summer School of the Italian Statistical Society (SIS) on PLS Methods for Structured Data Tables in Consumer Analysis (Università di Macerata Italy)
  • 2009 – 2009 : “A Comprehensive PLS-based Environment to Structural Equation Modeling” (Conservatoire National des Arts & Métiers (CNAM) France)
  • 2009 – 2009 : “The PLS Path Modeling approach to Structural Equation Modeling: Methodological Foundations, Recent Decelopments and Software Applications” Tutorial at the 11th Conference of the International Federation of Classification Societies (IFCS) (International Federation of Classification Societies (IFCS) Germany)
  • 2008 – 2008 : “A Comprehensive PLS Environment to Structural Equation Modeling” (Università di Napoli Federico II Italy)
  • 2008 – 2008 : “Introduction to Categorical Data Analysis: Chi-square test of independence for cross-tabs, binary correspondence analysis for the association between two categorical variables, multiple correspondence analysis for the analysis of survey data” – Training course for the EUROSTAT (Statistical Office of the European Union) junior and senior executives (Eurostat Luxembourg)
  • 2008 – 2008 : “Path Analysis, Confirmatory Factor Analysis and Structural Equation Modelling” (Sorbonne Université France)
  • 2008 – 2008 : “Statistical Modelling for Measuring Customer Satisfaction” (Università degli Studi di Cagliari Italy)
  • 2008 – 2008 : “Component-based Structural Equation Models” – Journées d’Etudes en Statistique (JES) of the Société Française de Statistique (SFdS) (Société Française de Statistique (SFdS) France)
  • 2008 – 2008 : “Local Model in Component-based SEM” – Journées d’Etudes en Statistique (JES) of the Société Française de Statistique (SFdS) (Société Française de Statistique (SFdS) France)
  • 2008 – 2008 : “Model assessment and multi-group comparison in PLS Path Modeling: methodological foundations and the XLSTAT-PLSPM software” (Università di Napoli Federico II Italy)
  • 2008 – 2008 : “Detection and Assessment of Local Models in PLS Path Modeling” (Università di Napoli Federico II Italy)
  • 2007 – 2007 : “PLS Path Modeling for Causal Networks: Recent Contributions with Applications to Customer Satisfaction Surveys and Sensory Data Analysis”– Research Seminar – Marketing Department at the HEC School of Management, (HEC Paris France)
  • 2007 – 2007 : “Recent Contributions to PLS (Partial Least Squares) Regression and Path Modeling for the Analysis of Dependence Relationships, Causal Networks and Multiple Tables”– Research Seminar (HEC Paris France)
  • 2007 – 2007 : “PLS (Partial Least Squares) Path Modeling” – 11th Course in the ECAS (European Courses in Advanced Statistics) Program on the theme: “Structural Equation Models” (Université Grenoble Alpes France)
  • 2001 – 2006 : “PLS Methods: from regression to structural equation models” – course for the Master in Quantitative Methods for the Social Research and the Market Analysis of the University of Naples “Federico II” (Università di Napoli Federico II Italy)
  • 2005 – 2005 : “The Classical (ML) and the Partial Least Squares Approaches to Study Causality Relationships by Structural Equation Modeling”– Quantitative Finance Seminar (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Germany)
  • 2005 – 2005 : “The Classical Approach (SEM-ML) to the Study of Causality by Modeling Structural Relationships between Latent Variables”– Statistics Workshop of the Société Française de Statistique “Modèles structurels et applications” (Société Française de Statistique (SFdS) France)
  • 2005 – 2005 : “The PLS approach to the analysis of latent variables: regression techniques (PLS1, PLS2), analysis of disjoint matrices (L-PLS, U-PLS)and multiblock analysis by means of causal networks (PLS-PM, Domino PLS)” – Course on “Sensory Evaluation of Food Products: test planning and data analysis” Italian Society of Sensory Sciences (Italian Sensory Sciences Society (SISS) Italy)
  • 2004 – 2004 : Use of PLS Graph for the European Customer Satisfaction Index – PLS Summer School, Technical University of Berlin (Technische Universität Berlin Germany)
  • 2004 – 2004 : PLS Model Evaluation and Comparisons with LISREL – PLS Summer School, Technical University of Berlin (Technische Universität Berlin Germany)
  • 2004 – 2004 : A Modeling Approach for measuring Customer Satisfaction – Statistics course at the Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Macerata (Università di Macerata Italy)
  • 2003 – 2003 : PLS (Partial Least Squares) methods: from regression to structural equations models – Master in Quantitative Methods for Social Research and Market Analysis , Department of Mathematics and Statistics (Università di Napoli Federico II Italy)
  • 2003 – 2003 : PLS (Partial Least Squares) Path Modeling: Methodological Innovations, the use of PLS-SPAD software and applications to the Customer Satisfaction Index – (with Y.M. Chatelin) Tutorial at the PLS and Related Methods – Focus on Customers Conference (Lisbon, September, 16th 2003). (International Conference on Partial Least Squares and Related Methods Portugal)
  • 2003 – 2003 : Latent Variables Soft Modeling (PLS) – series of lectures at the IASC-IFCS Joint International Summer School on Classification and Data Mining in Business, Industry and Applied Research: Methodological and Computational Issues (International Association for Statistical Computing (IASC) Portugal)
  • 2003 – 2003 : The LISREL and the PLS approach to Structural Equation Modeling – series of seminars at the Doctorate in Statistics and the Doctorate in Informatics of the Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya Spain)
  • 2001 – 2001 : LISREL and PLS Path Modeling – series of lectures at the IASC-IASS Joint International Summer School on Knowledge Discovery & Large Surveys Design and Analysis (International Association for Statistical Computing (IASC) Italy)
  • 2001 – 2001 : Explanatory Analyses – module of the course on Multidimensional Data Analysis for the Master in Marketing of the LUISS Management University (Luiss University Italy)
  • 2000 – 2000 : The analysis of complex systems in Epidemiology and Biomedicine – course in the Post-Graduate School on Biostatistics for Clinical and Epidemiological Research by the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Naples Federico II (Università di Napoli Federico II Italy)
  • 2000 – 2000 : Analysts of Scenarios on International Markets (post-graduate course). Statistics module (Università di Napoli Federico II Italy)
  • 1999 – 1999 : Multivariate Statistical Analyses for Total Quality Measurement – series of lectures at the V International Summer School in Computational Statistics organised by IASC on the theme: 3rd Millenium Challenge for Industrial Statistics (International Association for Statistical Computing (IASC) Greece)
  • 1998 – 1998 : Experts of Tourism Marketing (post-graduate course). Statistics module (Università di Napoli Federico II Italy)
  • 1998 – 1998 : Experts of Typical Food Products Marketing (post-graduate course). Statistics module (Università di Napoli Federico II Italy)
  • 1997 – 1997 : Experts in Quality Management for Small Enterprises (post-graduate course). Statistics module (Università di Napoli Federico II Italy)
  • 1997 – 1997 : Market Analysts: Methodologies and Experiences supporting Small Enterprises (post-graduate course). Statistics module (Università di Napoli Federico II Italy)
  • 1997 – 1997 : Statistics for Business and Management – course at the Master in Economy and Management for the Small Enterprises by the Faculty of Economics of the University of Naples Federico II (Università di Napoli Federico II Italy)

Thesis jury member

  • 2010 : Four Essays on the Interface between Marketing and Operations in Supply Chain Management (ESSEC Business School France)

Thesis referee

  • 2009 : PATHMOX Approach: Segmentation Trees in Partial Least Squares Path Modeling (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya Spain)
  • 2007 : Contribution aux modèles d’équations tructurelles à variables latentes (Conservatoire National des Arts & Métiers (CNAM) France)
Research activities
  • Organization of a conference or a seminar
    • 2014 – 2014: Co-Chair (with G. Saporta) of the 8th International Conference on PLS and Related Methods ( France)
    • 2010 – 2010: Member of the National Organizing Committee for the 19th COMPSTAT (Computational Statistics) Symposium organized by the IASC (International Association for Statistical Computing) in Paris ( France)
    • 2010 – 2010: Organiser of the Fourth Workshop in the ESSEC-SUPELEC Research Workshop Series on “PLS Developments”: PLS and Related Methods for cutting-edge Research in Experimental Sciences: Methodological Advances ( France)
    • 2009 – 2009: Organizer of an invited paper meeting on “Capturing Unobserved Heterogeneity in Latent Variable Modelling” at the 57th Session of the International Statistical Institute ( South Africa)
    • 2009 – 2009: Organiser of the Third Workshop in the ESSEC-HEC Research Workshop Series on “PLS Developments”: PLS Path Modeling and other Component-based Approaches to Causal Networks and Multi-block Data Structures: Methodological Contributions and Applications with a focus on Marketing and the Management of Information Systems ( France)
    • 2008 – 2008: Organiser of an Invited Paper Meeting session at COMPSTAT 2008 (Porto) on the theme: “Models for Latent Class Detection”. ( Portugal)
    • 2008 – 2008: Organiser of the Second Workshop in the ESSEC-HEC Research WorkshopSeries on “PLS Developments”: Structural Equation Models, PLs PathModeling and Multi-block Techniques in Sensory and Consumer Analysis -Methods, Applications and Software” ( France)
    • 2008 – 2008: Organiser of an Invited Paper Meeting session at GfKl 2008 on the theme: “PLS Path Modeling”.
    • 2007 – 2007: Organizer and Chair of a specialized topic meeting at the 56th Session of theISI on the theme of “Latent Class Analysis and Classification Issues” (Lisbon) ( Portugal)
    • 2007 – 2007: Organiser of the First Workshop in the ESSEC-HEC Research Workshop Series on “PLS Developments”: PLS Path Modeling in presence of a GroupStructure: Multi-Group Analysis and Latent Class Detection – Methods, Applications and Software” ( France)
    • 2006 – 2006: Member of the Organising Committee for COMPSTAT’06 – 17th Symposium of IASC on Computational Statistics (Rome, August 2006) ( Italy)
    • 2006 – 2006: Member of the Organising Committee for the IFCS’06 Conference: Data Science and Classification (Ljubljana, Slovenia, 25-29 July 2006). ( Slovenia)
    • 2005 – 2005: Co-organiser (with C. Lauro) of the PLS track sessions for the 3rd World Conference of IASC on the theme of: Computational Statistics and Data Analysis (Cyprus, October 2005) ( Cyprus)
    • 2005 – 2005: Organiser of an Invited Paper Meeting on: “The PLS (Partial Least Squares) Approach in Data Analysis: new methods with validation and computational issues” for ISI’05 Conference (Sydney, April 2005). ( Australia)
    • 2005 – 2005: Co-organiser (with C. Lauro) of two Specialised Sessions on: “PLS Path Modeling, PLS Regression and Classification: New Methods and Applications” for the GfKl’05 Meeting of the Gesellschaft für Klassifikation ( Germany)
    • 2004 – 2004: Organiser and Chairman of the Workshop on: “PLS Methods for Sensory Analysis” at the “European Conference on Sensory Science of Food and Beverages” (Florence, September 2004). ( Italy)
    • 2004 – 2004: Organiser and chairman of an invited session on the theme: “PLS Tools forRegression and Structural Modelling of Complex High Dimensional Data” at the COMPSTAT’04 Conference (Prague, August 2004). ( Czechia)
    • 2004 – 2004: Organiser and chairman of an IASC Invited Session at the IFCS’04 (International Federation of Classification Societies) Conference ( United States of America)
    • 2003 – 2003: Organisateur d’une “invited session” spécialisée sur le thème “PLS Structural Equation Modelling and Customer Satisfaction: Recent Advances in Methods and Applications” at the 13th International Meeting of the Psychometric Society (IMPS203) and 68th Annual American Meeting of the Psychometric Society (Chia Laguna) ( Italy)
    • 2003 – 2003: National Organising Committee Member for the Intermediate SIS Conference on the theme: “Multivariate Statistical Analysis for Social Sciences, Economics, Natural Sciences and Technology” ( Italy)
    • 2001 – 2001: Co-organiser (with Carlo Lauro, Michel Tenenhaus and Alain Morineau) and Scientific Secretary of the 2nd International Symposium on PLS and Related Methods (Anacapri, 1-3 October 2001). ( Italy)
    • 2001 – 2001: Chief organiser (with S. Balbi) of the International Summer School of IASC (International Association for Statistical Computing) on the theme:”Knowledge Discovery & Large Surveys Design and Analysis” (Anacapri, 20-30 June 2001). ( Italy)
  • Participation in scientific commissions or reviewer for a conference
    • 2013 – 2013: Member of the Scientific Progrm Committee of the European Conference on Data Analysis jointly organized by the German Classification Society (GfKl) ( Luxembourg)
    • 2010 – 2010: Member of the Scientific Program Committee of the ERCIM’10 (3rd International Conference on Computing & Statistics (Senate House in London, 10-12 December 2010). ( United Kingdom)
    • 2009 – 2009: Co-Chair of the Scientific Program Committee of the 6th International Symposium on PLS and Related Methods (PLS’09, Beijing) ( China)
    • 2009 – 2009: Co-Chair of the Scientific Program Committee of the ISBIS (International Society for Business and Industrial Statistics) Regional Meeting 2009 on Quantitative Methods for Banking and Finance, Environment, Services for SMEs, Transport and Tourism (Cagliari, Italy, 30 May – 3 June 2009) ( Italy)
    • 2008 – 2008: Member of the International Scientific Committee for IASC 2008 – Joint Meeting of the 4th World Conference of the IASC and 6th Conference of the Asian Regional Section of the IASC on Computational Statistics & Data Analysis (Yokohama, 5-8 December 2008). ( Japan)
    • 2008 – 2008: Consultative Member of the Scientific Programme Committee for the 18th Association for Statistical Computing (IASC, Porto, 24-29 August 2008) ( Portugal)
    • 2008 – 2008: Member of the Scientific Program Committee for GfKl 2008 – 32nd Annual Conference of the German Classification Society on “Advances in Data Analysis, Data Handling, and Business Intelligence” ( Germany)
    • 2008 – 2008: Member of the Scientific Program Committee for the HDM-2008, International Conference on Multivariate Statistical Modeling and High Dimensional Data Mining (Kayseri (Caesarea), Turkey, 19-23 June 2008). ( Turkey)
    • 2008 – 2008: Member of the Scientific Program Committee for the CLADAG 2008, Joint Scientific Meeting of the Classification and Data Analysis Group of the Italian Statistical Society and Societé Francophone de Classification (Capua (CE)) ( Italy)
    • 2007 – 2007: Member of the International Scientific Committee for PLS’07, 5th International Symposium on PLS and Related Methods – Causalities explored by indirect observations (Oslo, September 2007). ( Finland)
    • 2007 – 2007: Membre du comité scientifique : CLADAG School sur le thème “Multivariate Statistical Methods for the Analysis of Clustered Data” (Bologne) ( Italy)
    • 2007 – 2007: Chair of the IASC (International Association for Statistical Computing) Programme Committee for the 56th ISI (International Statistical Institute) Conference ( Portugal)
    • 2006 – 2006: Co-Chairman of the Steering and Organising Committees for the IASC-INTERFACE-IFCS International Workshop on “Knowledge Extraction and Modeling” – KNEMO’06 ( Italy)
    • 2005 – 2005: Member of the Steering Committee for PLS’05, 4th International Symposium on PLS and Related Methods – Focus on Marketing ( Spain)
    • 2005 – 2005: Member of the Programme Committee for the scientific sessions organised by IASC at the 55th ISI ( Australia)
    • 2004 – 2004: Scientific Programme Committee Member of the SAS Campus 2004 Conference (Florence, May 2004). Programme Committee Member for the ( United States of America)
    • 2003 – 2003: Co-chairman of the Third International Symposium on PLS and Related Methods – Focus on Customers (PLS’03, Lisbon, 15-17 September 2003). ( Portugal)
    • 2003 – 2003: Programme Committee Member for the organisation of the IASC-IFCS Summer School on the theme: “Data Mining and Classification for Business and Industry: methods, computational issues and applications” ( Portugal)
    • 1998 – 1998: Scientific Secretary of the “III International Conference on New Techniques and Technologies for Statistics” jointly organised by EUROSTAT, the Department of Mathematics and Statistics of the University of Naples and ISTAT (Italian National Statistical Institute) – (Sorrento, November 4th-6th) ( Italy)
    • 1997 – 1997: Member of the National and Organising Committee and Scientific Secretary of the “VIII International Symposium on Applied Stochastic Models and Data Analysis” (Anacapri, June 11th-14th, 1997). ( Italy)
  • Function in an academic association
    • 2013 – 2015: Vice-President of the International Society of Business and Industrial Statistics (ISBIS), a section of the International Statistical Institute (ISI)
    • 2009 – 2013: Elected Council Member of the International Statistical Institute (ISI)
    • 2003 – 2007: Chairman-elect of the European Board of Directors of the International Association for Statistical Computing (IASC), a section of the International Statistical Institute (ISI)
    • 2002 – Now: Member of the Research Academy “Center for the Analysis of Complex Data” of the BeiHang University of Beijing
  • Other academic activity
    • 2011 – 2011: Chair of the Jury for the ISI Mahalanobis Award given at the ISI World Statistics Congress (Dublin)
    • 2001 – 2004: Scientific responsible for the national research unit of the EUROSTATProject “European Satisfaction Index System – ESIS” for the methodological development, implementation and use of PLS Path Modeling in the domain of Customer Satisfaction Measurement (2001-2004)
    • 2001 – 2003: Member of the national research unit of the EUROSTAT Project “VITAMIN-S” (2001-2003) for the development of a Visual Data Mining System
    • 2001 – 2003: Member of the national research unit of the EUROSTAT Project “ERMIS” (2001-2003) aimed at Electronic Commerce Measuring with Intelligent Agency
    • 2001 – 2003: Member of the national research unit of the EUROSTAT Project “ASSO” (2001-2003) for the development of an Analysis System of Symbolic Official Data
    • 1998 – 2000: Member of the national research unit of the ESPRIT European Project “ISO-3D” (1998-2000) for the methodological development and the implementation of a system aimed at the interpretation of symbolic objects in 3D representations
    • 1998 – 2000: Manager of the national research unit of the ESPRIT European Project “System for Automatic Seasonal Adjustment and Forecasting of Time Series – TESS”
  • Editorial Board Membership
    • 2011 – 2013: Editorial board membership – Statistical Methods and Applications
    • 2009 – 2017: Editorial board membership – Advances in Data Analysis and Classification
    • 2009 – 2009: Editorial board membership – Applied Stochastic Models in Business and Industry
    • 2007 – 2017: Editorial board membership – Computational Statistics
    • 2007 – 2017: Editorial board membership – Computational Statistics and Data Analysis
    • 2007 – 2009: Editorial board membership – La Revue de MODULAD
  • Member of an academic association
    • 2007 – Now: Member of AMS (The Academy of Marketing Science)
    • 2006 – Now: Member of ISBIS (The International Society for Business and Industrial Statistics)
    • 2002 – Now: Member of SFDS (Société Française de Statistique) et SFC (Société Française de Classification)
    • 2000 – Now: ISI (International Statistical Institute) – Elected Member
    • 2000 – Now: Member of CSNA (The Classification Society of North America)
    • 2000 – Now: Member of ENBIS (European Network for Business and Industrial Statistics)
    • 1998 – Now: Member of ASA (American Statistical Association)
    • 1998 – Now: Member of CLADAG – SIS Group of the IFCS (International Federation of Classification Societies)
    • 1996 – Now: Member of SIS (Italian Statistical Society)
    • 1993 – Now: Member of IASC (International Association for Statistical Computing)
Professional activities
  • Consulting
    • 2011 – 2011: L’OREAL Recherche, Chevilly-La-Rue, France
    • 2011 – 2011: CATALYZ Research, Paris, France
    • 2010 – 2010: STREAM LINE, Paris, France
    • 2010 – 2010: Bio Springer (The World of Yeast Products), France
    • 2009 – 2009: TERRITOIRES SITES & CITES, Paris, France
    • 2009 – 2009: GPF – Allaxia SpA (Market Research Company), Milan, Italie
    • 2009 – 2011: CIRAD (Centre de coopération internationale en recherche agronomique pour le développement), France
    • 2008 – 2010: EUROSTAT (Statistical Office of the European Commission), Luxembourg
    • 2008 – 2008: INRETS (Institut National de Recherche sur les Transports et leur Sécurité), France
    • 2007 – Now: ALTADIS, Fleury-Les-Aubrais, France
    • 2005 – 2005: Administration of the Lombardia Region (Milan, Italy)
    • 2004 – 2004: AACST, Office of Tourism of the Island of Capri and the Province of Naples
    • 2001 – Now: ADDINSOFT, Statistical Software Company, Paris, France
    • 1997 – 2000: CESVITEC (Center for the Promotion and the Technological Development of Small and Medium Enterprises in Southern Italy, Naples, Italy)
    • 1997 – 2000: CCIAA (Chamber of Commerce, Industry, Arts and Handicraft of Naples, Italy)
    • 1997 – 2000: ASSEFOR (Association of the Chambers of Commerce for the training and assistance to the small and medium enterprises, Italy)
Theses
  • 2006 : ASSAKER Guy (ESSEC Business School), Thesis director, Insights into tourism demand and tourism behavior: four papers using multiple perspectives and structural equation modeling
  • 2012 : COLICEV Anatoli (ESSEC Business School), Thesis co-director, Valuing Social Media
  • 2010 : DE GIOVANNI Pietro (ESSEC Business School), Thesis jury member, Four Essays on the Interface between Marketing and Operations in Supply Chain Management
  • 2007 : JAKOBOWICZ Emmanuel (Conservatoire National des Arts & Métiers (CNAM)), Thesis referee, Contribution aux modèles d’équations tructurelles à variables latentes
  • 2009 : SANCHEZ TRUJILLO Gaston (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya), Thesis referee, PATHMOX Approach: Segmentation Trees in Partial Least Squares Path Modeling
  • 2008 : TRINCHERA Laura (Università di Napoli Federico II), Thesis director, Unobserved Heterogeneity in Structural Equation Models: a new approach to latent class detection in PLS Path Modeling
  • 2007 : ZARGOUSH Abdolmanaf (ESSEC Business School), Thesis director, Four essays on novel heuristic algorithms in data mining with applications in healthcare analytics