Riccardo De Santis

About Me

I am a post-doc researcher at the Department of Statistics and Operations Research, University of Vienna, Austria, since October 2026.

Previously, I was a post-doc researcher at the Department of Statistical Sciences of University of Padova, Italy, from February 2025 to October 2026, with a project based on statistical modeling of partially missing information in meta-analysis. Before I was a post-doc researcher at the Department of Economics and Statistics of University of Siena, Italy, from February 2024 to January 2025, with a project based on statistical models in higher education.

I got my PhD title in May 2024 in Statistical Sciences at the University of Padova, Italy, with a thesis based on semi-parametric tests for regression models. During my PhD I did a visiting period of six months at the Department of Biomedical Data Sciences of Leiden University Medical Center, The Netherlands.

As an undergraduate student, I got my master in Statistics at University of Siena, Italy, in April 2020.

Research Interests

• Robust inference
• Multiple-testing procedures
• Regression models
• Sequential testing
• Meta-analysis
• Statistical applications in social studies

Publications

Conferences

Talks

• 2026. Small-sample hypothesis testing for binomial meta-analysis, 47th Annual Conference of the International Society for Clinical Biostatistics, Freiburg im Breisgau (Germany)
• 2026. Dealing with partially missing correlations in meta-analyses for multiple parameters of interest, 33rd International Biometric Conference, Seoul (South Korea)
• 2026. Partially missing continuous covariates in meta-regression: A comparison of multiple imputation approaches, Meeting of the Society for Research Synthesis Methodology, Chania (Greece)
• 2025. Closed-Based Testing When Multiple Quantile Regressions are Fitted, Società Italiana di Statistica (SIS), Genova (Italy)
• 2025. Sign-flip test for coefficients in the Cox regression model, Survival Analysis for Junior Researchers (SAfJR), Bonn (Germany)
• 2024. Sign-flip test for the Cox regression model, Società Italiana di Statistica (SIS), Bari (Italy)
• 2024. Studying gender disparities in STEM university credits distribution using quantile regression, International Joint Conference on Computational and Financial Econometrics (CFE) and Computational and Methodological Statistics (CMStatistics), London (UK)
• 2023. Sign-flip test for coefficients in the Cox regression model, International Society for Clinical Biostatistics (ISCB), Milano (Italy)
• 2022. Inference in generalized linear models with robustness to misspecified variances, International Conference on Multiple Comparison Procedures (MCP), Bremen (Germany)
• 2022. Conditional tests for generalized linear models, Società Italiana di Statistica (SIS), Caserta (Italy)

Posters

• 2026. Small-sample hypothesis testing for binomial meta-analyses, Symposium: Recent Advances in Meta-Analysis, Gottingen (Germany)
• 2026. Inference on multiple quantiles in regression models by a rank-score approach, StaTalk, Torino (Italy)
• 2022. Inference in generalized linear models with robustness to misspecified variances, Statistical methods and models for complex data, Padova (Italy)

Seminars

• 2026. From mean to quantile regression models: pitfalls and new solutions for hypothesis testing of regression coefficients, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome (Italy)
• 2025. Robust inference for generalized linear models by flipscores approach, High-Dimensional Statistical Inference Workshop, University Ca’ Foscari of Venice, Venice (Italy)
• 2024. Robust inference for generalized linear models by flipscores approach, International seminar series, Universities of Siena and Granada, Siena (Italy)
• 2023. Group invariance tests for regression models, ZeSOB PhD colloquium, Bremen (Germany)
• 2023. Robust inference for generalized linear models by flipscores approach, Psicostat, Padova (Italy)
• 2022. Inference in generalized linear models with robustness to misspecified variances, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden (The Netherlands)

Teaching

• 2025-26. (34 h) Statistics 2, Bachelor in Statistical Sciences, University of Padova (Italy)
• 2025-26. (16 h) Statistical models 2, Bachelor in Statistical Sciences, University of Padova (Italy)
• 2024-25. (16 h) Statistical models 2, Bachelor in Statistical Sciences, University of Padova (Italy)
• 2024-25. (18 h) Statistics preparatory course, Master in Statistical Sciences, University of Siena (Italy)
• 2023-24. (16 h) Statistical models 2, Bachelor in Statistical Sciences, University of Padova (Italy)

Conference proceedings

• Closed-Based Testing When Multiple Quantile Regressions are Fitted, Riccardo De Santis, Anna Vesely, Angela Andreella, Book of the Short Papers SIS, 2025
• Smooth Logistic Mass Univariate Inference for MS Lesion Data Using Sign‑Flipping, Samuel Davenport, Riccardo De Santis, Jesse Hemerik, Jelle J. Goeman, Livio Finos, Book of the Short Papers SIS, 2024
• Sign‑Flip Test for the Cox Regression Model, Riccardo De Santis, Jelle J. Goeman, Hein Putter, Livio Finos, Book of the Short Papers SIS, 2024
• Valid inference for group analysis of functionally aligned fMRI images, Angela Andreella, Riccardo De Santis, Livio Finos, Book of the Short Papers SIS, 2022
• Conditional tests for generalized linear models, Riccardo De Santis, , Jelle J. Goeman, Anna Vesely, Livio Finos, Book of the Short Papers SIS, 2022
• Uncertainty and variance estimation techniques for poverty and inequality measures from complex surveys: a simulation study, Riccardo De Santis, Lucio Barabesi, Gianni Betti, Book of the Short Papers SIS, 2021
• Estimating uncertainty for child poverty indicators: The Case of Mediterranean Countries, Ilaria Benedetti, Federico Crescenzi, Riccardo De Santis, Book of the Short Papers SIS, 2021

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