Carlo Drago

Carlo Drago is an Associate Professor of Economic Statistics at the University of Naples 'Niccolò Cusano', where he teaches Probability, Statistics, and Computer Science in the Faculty of Engineering and Economics. He previously served as an Expert at the European Commission's Joint Research Center (JRC) and is currently a member of the 'Market Competition Innovation' Working Group under Italy's Ministry of Economic Development (unpaid role). He holds a PhD in Statistics from the University of Naples 'Federico II'.

His research focuses on Machine Learning applications (both supervised and unsupervised), with interdisciplinary emphasis on energy policy, healthcare economics, and socioeconomic issues like poverty measurement. Notable contributions include developing interval-based composite indicators for poverty analysis and frameworks for measuring energy resilience across 230 countries.

Publications span journals such as Energy Policy, Ecological Economics, and Scientific Reports, with recent work addressing pandemic-related healthcare costs during the COVID-19 crisis and migraine treatment economic evaluations. His methodological innovations include interval K-means clustering and bootstrap approaches for governance network analysis.

Dr. Drago has collaborated with EU-funded projects like MUNROS, investigating healthcare professional roles' impact on patient satisfaction. His work frequently bridges statistical methodology with practical policy applications in energy, health, and socioeconomic equity.