Dr Shahin Tavakoli
Senior Lecturer of Statistics
Research Institute for Statistics and Information Science
Geneva School of Economics and Management
University of Geneva
About
I am a tenured Maître d’Enseignement et de Recherche (equivalent to a Senior Lecturer in the UK) in the Research Institute for Statistics and Information Science at the Geneva School of Economics and Management of the University of Geneva. My research interests include functional data analysis, and applications to (neuro-)imaging, phonetics, biophysics, econometrics and genomics (see publications below).
More information are available in my short bio.
Recent News
March 2025: Our paper Statistics in Phonetics is now published in Annual Reviews of Statistics and its Application. Congratulations to my PhD student Beatrice Matteo for her first paper!
February 2025: our paper Normative brain mapping of 3-dimensional morphometry imaging data using skewed functional data analysis has been accepted in Human Brain Mapping!
October 2024: I have been invited to give a seminar at the Institute of Phonetics and Speech Processing of LMU Munich.
October 2024: I have been invited as a keynote speaker for the International Workshop on Functional and Operatorial Statistics 2025 in Novara, Italy!
September 2024: Our paper Functional regression clustering with multiple functional gene expressions has been accepted in PLOS ONE!
August 2024: Our paper Statistics in Phonetics has been accepted in Annual Reviews of Statistics and its Application. Congratulations to my PhD student Beatrice Matteo for her first paper!
July 2024: new paper on arxiv on Normative brain mapping of 3-dimensional morphometry imaging data using skewed functional data analysis.
April 2024: new paper on arxiv on Statistics in Phonetics.
December 2022: our paper on High-dimensional Functional Factor Models is accepted as a two-part paper in the Journal of Time Series Analysis!
February 2022: congratulations to my first PhD student, Dr Marco Palma, for successfully defending his viva (phd examination)!
January 2022: our paper on exploring the trap-bath split is accepted in JRSS C!
December 2021: new paper on arXiv with Susana Conde and Daphne Ezer. (the paper was finalized 04/2020 but added much later on arXiv)
August 2021: I have started a new appointment at the University of Geneva.
December 2020: I have been invited to be an Associate Editor for the Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference.
August 2020: new preprint on exploring the trap-bath split with my 4th year dissertation student Aranya Koshy.
May 2020: Our paper on Quantifying Uncertainty in Brain-predicted Age is accepted in Neuroimage!
October 2019: Our paper on modelling dialect sounds variations is now published in the Journal of the American Statistical Association (Theory & Methods) as a discussion paper.
September 2019: I am invited to propose the vote of thanks for a JRSS B discussion paper.
June 2019: New preprint available: High-dimensional Functional Factor Models.
