Bio

I am a postdoctoral researcher at EPFL in the chair of Mathematical Statistics, where I obtained my PhD advised by Victor Panaretos.

In the Fall of 2025 I was a visiting postdoc at Columbia University, where I was hosted by Bodhisattva Sen.

Previously, in the Fall of 2023, I was a visiting student at UC Berkeley.

I obtained my MSc from ETH, Switzerland, and my BSc from the University of Trento, Italy.

Experience

Oct 2025 - Dec 2025, Columbia Univesity (New York, US)
Visiting Researcher.
kernel methods; score-based denoising on manifolds

Oct 2024 - present, EPFL (Lausanne, CH)
Postdoctoral Researcher.
kernel methods; statistical machine learning; inverse problems in high-dimensional/functional statistics; optimal transport

Sep - Dec 2023, University of California, Berkeley (US)
Visiting Researcher.
optimal transport; geometric statistics; hosted by Prof. Steve Evans.

Apr - Oct 2020, Teralytics AG (Zürich, CH)
Machine Learning Intern in the Data Science team.
Prototyping of probabilistic model to extract insights on human mobility
from telco data using ML, PGMs and particle filters.

Education

Oct 2020 - Sep 2024, EPFL (Lausanne, CH)
PhD in Mathematical Statistics, supervised by Prof. Victor Panaretos.
Thesis: Statistics for Covariance Operators: Transport, Flows, and Diffusions.

Sep 2018 - Mar 2020, ETH Zürich (CH)
MSc degree in Mathematics, supervised by Prof. Ioan Manolescu.
Thesis: Widths of crossings in Poisson Boolean percolation.

Sep 2015 - Jul 2018, Università degli Studi di Trento (IT)
BSc degree in Mathematics.

Leonardo Santoro, PhD

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Experience

Education