Shahin Tavakoli
Tenured Maître d'Enseignement et de Recherche in Statistics
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 my research page).
More information are available in my short bio.
Editorial Activities
Since 2020, I am an associate editor for the Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference.
Recent News
May 2026: new paper on arxiv on Infinite-Dimensional Spherical Kernel ridge Regression with my PhD student Beatrice Matteo and Almond Stoecker. This is Bea’s first first-author paper: congratulations Bea!
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!