Manuele Leonelli

Manuele Leonelli is an Assistant Professor at the School of Science and Technology, IE University in Madrid, Spain. He holds a PhD in Statistics from the University of Warwick (UK) and has held roles including CAPES Postdoctoral Fellow at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) and Lecturer at the University of Glasgow (UK). His research bridges Statistics, Machine Learning, and Decision Sciences, with a focus on probabilistic graphical models such as Bayesian networks and staged tree models.

Dr. Leonelli’s work emphasizes practical applications in healthcare analytics, sports performance analysis, and environmental risk management. He has authored over 30 peer-reviewed publications and developed open-source tools like the bnmonitor R package for Bayesian network analysis. He currently serves on the editorial board of Bernoulli News and is a member of the ELLIS Society, reflecting his commitment to collaborative research and advancing statistical science.

His recent research trends include contextualized causal discovery, robust model learning from incomplete data, and interdisciplinary applications of staged trees in healthcare and transportation systems. Though no formal awards are listed, his contributions to open-source software and methodological advancements highlight his impactful academic trajectory.