gherardo varando

I am an assistant professor (ayudante doctor) at Universitat de València, in the Department of Statistics and Operational Research.

Teaching at UV

research interests

  • uncertainty quantification
  • probabilistic graphical models
  • graphical models for dynamical systems
  • staged event trees and chain event graphs
  • causality and causal discovery from spatio-temporal data
  • applications for the Earth sciences

news

Paper published in Bayesian Analysis

07 Jul 2026

Our paper Bayesian Causal Effect Estimation for Categorical Data Using Staged Tree Models has been published in Bayesian Analysis.


Attending EYSM 2026 in Vilnius

07 Jul 2026

I am currently attending the European Young Statisticians Meeting (EYSM) 2026 in Vilnius, Lithuania. The conference brings together young researchers in statistics and mathematics from across Europe and is taking place from July 7–10, 2026, at the Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics, Vilnius University.


PGM 2026 in Valencia

29 Apr 2026

The 13th International Conference on Probabilistic Graphical Models (PGM 2026) will be held in Valencia, Spain, from September 9–11, 2026.


Paper accepted at UAI

07 Jul 2026

Our submission Learning Causal Response Representations through Direct Effect Analysis has been accepted at UAI 2025. Work led by Homer Durand. A preliminary version is available on arxiv 2503.04358.


Paper accepted at AISTATS

30 Jan 2025

Our submission Out-of-distribution robustness for multivariate analysis via causal regularisation has been accepted at AISTATS 2025. A preliminary version is available on arxiv 2403.01865.