Gherardo VarandoView profile
Assistant Professor
- Uncertainty Quantification
- Probabilistic Graphical Models
- Graphical Models for Dynamical Systems
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Gherardo Varando is an Assistant Professor at the University of Valencia's Department of Statistics and Operational Research, and a researcher in the Image and Signal Processing Group. His work focuses on causal inference, probabilistic graphical models, and their applications in Earth sciences and health data analysis. He holds a PhD and has been a faculty member since 2024. Research interests include uncertainty quantification, staged event trees, and spatio-temporal causal discovery. Varando has published extensively on topics like causal representation learning, staged tree models, and kernel methods for pairwise causal discovery. His contributions span machine learning theory, statistical methodology, and interdisciplinary applications in climate science and biomedicine. Key achievements include the development of the stagedtrees R package for structural learning of graphical models, and open-source tools like leaflet-map-builder for geospatial visualization. His work bridges theoretical advancements with practical implementations, addressing challenges in causal structure learning and interpretable AI.
