Dr Kristian Romano
Short Biography
I am a Research Fellow in the Applied Statistics & Risk Unit (AS&RU) under the supervision of Dr Martine Barons. We are currently working on Food Systems' Sustainability and Security. AS&RU is a research and consultancy unit within the Statistics department at the University of Warwick. AS&RU co-ordinates external partnerships with academic and non-academic partners (e.g. industry, government, NGOs) to innovate by employing academic expertise from the department.
Before joining AS&RU, I was a PhD student in Statistics at the University of Warwick working on Hidden Markov Models for digital health and personalized medicine under the supervision of professor Bärbel Finkenstädt. Together with professor Francis Lévi we aim to monitor the Circadian Timing System, via wearable devices, for cancer patients as they undergo chemotherapy.
Hidden Markov Models have been employed in many areas such as genomics, protein folding, finance, and rainfall modelling. I enjoy collaborative research in multidisciplinary teams and delivering novel statistical methodology for real-world problems.
I am currently the Chair of the Royal Statistical Society West Midland Local Group (RSS WMLG), I served as Secretary from 2021 to 2023 and was a Committee Member in 2024. The RSS WMLG organises a series of yearly talks, for more information please visit our website.
I am also supporting the Statistical Advisory Clinics, offering advice on statistics related question to all Warwick PhD students.
Before joining the University of Warwick, I earned both my BSc and MSc at Bocconi University (Italy). I spent a quarter as exchange student during the BSc period at Northwestern University (USA). I had the privilege to be a Bocconi Institute for Data Science and Analytics (BIDSA) Visiting Student under the supervision of professor Antonio Lijoi.
Talks
"Statistical Models for Wearable Devices Data for Monitoring the Circadian Timing System", May 2025, Towards Personalized Cancer Chronotherapy, Université de Chicago Centre à Paris, Paris, France
"Real-Time Telemonitoring of Cancer Patients on Chemotherapy", May 2024, Towards Personalized Cancer Chronotherapy, Université de Chicago Centre à Paris, Paris, France
"Real Time Telemetric Monitoring of the Circadian Rhythm via a Wearable Device for Advanced Pancreatic Cancer Patients undergoing Chemotherapy", February 2024, Warwick Mathematics Postgraduate Seminar, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK
"Real Time Telemetric Monitoring of the Circadian Rhythm via a Wearable Device for Advanced Pancreatic Cancer Patients undergoing Chemotherapy", December 2023, Annual General Meeting of the Royal Statistical Society WMLG, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK
"Remote Monitoring of Patient With Advanced Pancreatic Cancer", Apr. 2023 ,Towards Personalized Cancer Chronotherapy, Université de Chicago Centre à Paris, Paris, France
"MultiDom: Remote Monitoring of Patient With Advanced Pancreatic Cancer", February 2023, Young Researchers Meeting, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK
"Advanced Hidden Markov Models for Physiological Time Series", September 2022, Warwick Statistics 50th Anniversary, Coventry, UK
Contacts
4.08 Mathematical Sciences Building, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, UK
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