Antonio PERUZZI

Antonio Peruzzi, Postdoctoral Researcher - Ca' Foscari University of Venice.

Personal Site: sites.google.com/view/antonio-peruzzi/

Email: antonio.peruzzi@unive.it

Research Interests:

• Bayesian Analysis
• Latent Space Models for Networks
• Online Social Networks
• Complex Networks in Finance

Current Position:

04-2024 - In corso, Postdoctoral Researcher, Ca' Foscari University of Venice
Assegno di Ricerca (Post-doc) Progetto PNRR GRINS 

Previous Positions:

11-2023 – 04-2024, Senior Scientist, Alpen Adria Universität Klagenfurt

Department of Statistics

Previous Education:

2019-2024 Ph.D. in Economics, Ca' Foscari University of Venice

thesis title: "Dynamic Network Modelling: Inference and Prediction with Socioeconomic Applications"

2016-2018 Master's Degree in Economics and Finance, Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Ca' Foscari International College

110/110 cum laude

Thesis Title:"How News Diffusion and Sentiment Affect Financial Markets: The Case of the Italian Financial Community on Twitter".

Journal Articles

Galeazzi, Alessandro, Peruzzi, Antonio, Brugnoli, Emanuele, Delmastro, Marco, & Zollo, Fabiana, 2024. Unveiling the Hidden Agenda: Biases in News Reporting and Consumption. PNAS Nexus, 3(11), pgae474.
https://doi.org/10.1093/pnasnexus/pgae474

Casarin, Roberto & Peruzzi, Antonio, 2024. A Dynamic Latent-Space Model for Asset Clustering. Studies in Nonlinear Dynamics & Econometrics, 28(2), 379–402. https://doi.org/10.1515/snde-2022-0111

Cinelli, Matteo, Peruzzi, Antonio, Schmidt, Ana Lucía, Villa, Roberta, Costa, Enrico, Quattrociocchi, Walter, & Zollo, Fabiana, 2022. Promoting Engagement with Quality Communication in Social Media. PLOS ONE, 17(10), e0275534. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0275534

Schmidt, Ana L., Peruzzi, Antonio, Scala, Antonio, Cinelli, Matteo, Pomerantsev, Peter, Applebaum, Anne, Gaston, Sophia, Fusi, Nicole, Peterson, Zachary, Severgnini, Giuseppe, et al., 2020. Measuring Social Response to Different Journalistic Techniques on Facebook. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 7(1). https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-020-0507-3  

Cinelli, Matteo, Conti, Mauro, Finos, Livio, Grisolia, Francesco, Kralj Novak, P., Peruzzi, Antonio, Tesconi, Maurizio, Zollo, Fabiana, & Quattrociocchi, Walter, 2019. (Mis)Information Operations. Journal of Information Warfare, 18(3), 83–98. https://www.jinfowar.com/journal-issue/volume-18-issue-3 

Peruzzi, Antonio, Quattrociocchi, Walter, Zollo, Fabiana, & Schmidt, Ana Lucía, 2018. From Confirmation Bias to Echo-Chambers: A Data-Driven Approach. Sociologia e Politiche Sociali, 3, 47–74. https://doi.org/10.3280/SP2018-003004

Peruzzi, Antonio, Zollo, Fabiana, Quattrociocchi, Walter, & Scala, Antonio, 2018. How News May Affect Markets’ Complex Structure: The Case of Cambridge Analytica. Entropy, 20(10), 765. https://doi.org/10.3390/e20100765

Book Chapters and Proceedings

Peruzzi, Antonio & Casarin, Roberto, 2022. Time-Varying Assets Clustering via Identity-Link Latent-Space Infinite Mixture: An Application on DAX Components. In Mathematical and Statistical Methods for Actuarial Sciences and Finance: MAF 2022, pp. 371–376. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-99638-3_60

Discussions

Casarin, Roberto & Peruzzi, Antonio, 2024. Comment on “Sparse Bayesian Factor Analysis when the Number of Factors is Unknown” by S. Frühwirth-Schnatter, D. Hosszejni, and H. Lopes. Bayesian Analysis. https://doi.org/10.1214/24-BA1423

Working Papers

Billio, Monica, Casarin, Roberto, Corradin, Fausto, & Peruzzi, Antonio, 2025. Bayesian Outlier Detection for Matrix-variate Models. arXiv preprint arXiv:2503.19515. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2503.19515 

Casarin, Roberto & Peruzzi, Antonio, 2024. A Multiple Random Scan Strategy for Latent Space Models. arXiv preprint arXiv:2408.11725.
https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2408.11725

Casarin, Roberto, Peruzzi, Antonio, & Steel, Mark F.J., 2023. Media Bias and Polarization through the Lens of a Markov Switching Latent Space Network Model. arXiv preprint arXiv:2306.07939 (2nd round revision – Annals of Applied Statistics) https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2306.07939

Awards
• ESOBE 2024 Young Researcher Travel Support.
• ISBA 2024 Best Poster Presentation.
• BayesComp 2023 Travel Grant.
• ISBA 2022 Best Poster Presentation.
• ISBA 2022 Travel Grant.
• Premio Faini 2018, Top-Three M.Sc. Thesis in Economics.
• Premio Rispoli 2016, Ca’ Foscari International College Grant.

Referee Activity
EPJ Data Science, Annals of Operations Research, Journal of Computational Social Science,
Scientific Reports, Annals of Applied Statistics, Applied Network Science, Journal of Financial Econometrics.