Eva Cantoni

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Eva Cantoni (born 1970) is a Swiss statistician whose research focuses on robust statistics and generalized linear models, with applications including housing market prediction, health care, and livestock production. She is a professor at the University of Geneva, in the Geneva School of Economics and Management, [1] and president of the Swiss Federal Statistics Committee. [2]

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Education and career

Cantoni was born in 1970, and received a Ph.D. in mathematics in 1999 from the University of Geneva. [3] Her doctoral dissertation, Resistant Techniques for Nonparametric Regression, Generalized Linear and Additive Models, was supervised by Elvezio Ronchetti. [4]

She became an associate professor at the University of Geneva in 2011, and full professor in 2019. She was vice-dean of the faculty of economy and management from 2020 to 2023, [3] and became president of the Swiss Federal Statistics Committee in 2024. [2]

Book

Cantoni is a coauthor of the book Robust Methods in Biostatistics (with Stephane Heritier, ‎‎Samuel Copt, and Maria-Pia Victoria-Feser, Wiley, 2009). [5]

Recognition

In 2025, the Geneva School of Economics and Management gave Cantoni their inaugural GSEM Teaching Engagement Award. [6]

References

  1. "Eva Cantoni", Faculty & Research, Geneva School of Economics and Management, retrieved 2025-04-02
  2. 1 2 Trois questions à la Présidente de la Commission de la statistique fédérale, Madame Eva Cantoni (in French), Federal Statistics Committee, 2 April 2024, retrieved 2025-04-02
  3. 1 2 "Cantoni, Eva", Élites suisses (in French), University of Lausanne, retrieved 2025-04-02
  4. Eva Cantoni at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  5. Reviews of Robust Methods in Biostatistics:
  6. Eva Cantoni and Giuseppe Ugazio recognized for the quality of their teaching, Geneva School of Economics and Management, 24 March 2025, retrieved 2025-04-02