Lino Sant

Background

About Lino Sant

Highly experienced Full Professor with a demonstrated history of working in higher education both as an academic and as head of department, as well as involvement in both research work and training of personnel within industry, parastatal bodies and other enterprises. Academically I was heavily involved in organizing and delivering various new mathematical courses at the start of my career, having introduced the teaching of numerical analysis, statistics, probability, stochastic processes and OR in a number of faculties at the University of Malta. In 1996 I was appointed Founder-Head of the Department of Statistics and OR at the University of Malta. Skilled in Statistical Data Analysis, Statistical Modeling, Multivariate and Asymptotic Statistics, Stochastic Processes with an emphasis on Stochastic Differential Equations, Stochastic Modelling, Bayesian Statistics and its links with machine learning and statistical learning theory, Theoretical Foundations of Probability and Statistics, Author of a number of academic papers published in various journals, both of a mathematical and statistical nature as well as public policy contributions. Authored as well number of television and stage plays. Was involved in probability and statistics textbooks production, For a number of years was heavily involved in the local cultural scene. Lately Lecturing, and Research are the main activities since I ceased heading the Dept of Statistics & OR. Over the years supervised a large number of dissertations and theses at undergraduate, masters and doctoral level. Strong education professional with a BSc, MSc focused in Maths & Physics, Maths from University of Malta and PhD in Stochastic Analysis.