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Luca Varotto.

Data Scientist · Statistician · Lecturer @ UniPD

From data to decisions: I am a Data Scientist with an M.Sc. in Statistical Sciences from the University of Padua, focused on statistical modelling, machine learning and AI-driven solutions.

In the 2026/2027 academic year I am an Adjunct Professor, teaching Laboratory: Informatics in the M.Sc. in Management for Sustainable Firms.

My passion is statistics applied to football: my B.Sc. thesis modelled Expected Goals, my M.Sc. thesis the Expected Threat.

  1. 2026/27

    Adjunct Professor

    Dept. of Economics and Management · UniPD

    Course leader for Laboratory: Informatics (M.Sc. in Management for Sustainable Firms), taught in English: Excel for business data analysis, charts and dashboards.

  2. 2024 – 2026

    M.Sc. in Statistical Sciences

    University of Padua

    Thesis on Markov processes on general state spaces to estimate the Expected Threat: how much each possession brings a team closer to a goal, starting from match tracking data.

    1st place at Stat Data Camp 2026, a hackathon in Cortina sponsored by Geolander.it: end-to-end analysis of complex data and presentation of the solutions.

  3. 2025 – 2026

    Teaching Assistant and Tutor

    University of Padua

    Tutoring and lab support for Mathematical Analysis, Computer Systems I and Data Structures and Programming.

  4. 2020 – 2024

    B.Sc. in Statistics for Technology and Science

    University of Padua · 107/110

    Thesis on classification models for Expected Goals and Expected Points in football.

  • Vinted Market Intelligence

    About 2,000 listings collected with Selenium and enriched with Google Trends, to estimate the price of an item and map the brands that share the same wardrobe.

    Web ScrapingMixed EffectsNetwork Analysis
  • Football Analytics

    Expected Goals estimated on 52,792 StatsBomb shots with seven classification models, and a Monte Carlo simulation turning them into Expected Points.

    Sport AnalyticsClassificationMonte Carlo
  • Academic NLP Classifier

    Scraping of the whole Padua course catalogue and prediction of the School a course belongs to from its syllabus alone, with a tree and a neural network.

    NLPText MiningClassification
  • Bio-Analytics

    Continuous biomass production of a Nostoc cyanobacterium: how cultivation factors drive growth, measured as optical density.

    Statistical ModelsExperimental Data
All my projects on GitHub

Technologies

PythonRSQL Advanced ExcelGit / GitHubAnyLogic

Methods

Machine LearningStatistical InferenceNLP Time Series and ForecastingBig Data Web ScrapingOptimisationSport Analytics

Languages

Italian · nativeEnglish · B2, teaching in English