Giuseppe Bruno

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Position

Director, IT support for economics and statistics

Biography

Giuseppe Bruno joined the Bank of Italy in 1989 and was assigned to the Econometrics Office of the Economic Research Department, where he was responsible for developing procedures for database management and for the estimation and simulation of the Bank's quarterly econometric model. In this capacity, he worked with experts from the Federal Reserve's Division of Research and Statistics and from other leading research institutes. In 1993 he spent an academic year at the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia) for developing algorithms for optimal control of econometric models. In 2000, after a short period at the statistical Division of OECD, he was appointed Head of the Economic Research Department's IT unit, in charge of coordinating projects for the introduction of new ICT platforms for economic and statistical applications. In 2016 he was given the responsibility of coordinating a multidisciplinary team on Big Data which works across Departments with different skills (economists, statisticians, computer scientists). One of the team’s goal was to build a HW/SW infrastructure capable to deal with different kinds of Big Data related to macroeconomic and microeconomic issues. The implementation of high speed access data lake hosting data from social media and news aggregator along with structured data provides a test bed for different machine learning applications. Over his career he has published over 25 papers in different economic and computational economics journals.