Dr Luisa Cutillo
- Position: Associate Professor
- Areas of expertise: Networks and Networks application, Graphical Models, time series, clustering, multiple omics, hypothesis testing
- Email: L.Cutillo@leeds.ac.uk
- Location: 11.12 School of Mathematics
- Website: GitHub Repositories | X | LinkedIn | ORCID
Profile
I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Statistics at the School of Mathematics, University of Leeds and have a very multidisciplinary background. I received my PhD in applied mathematics from the University of Naples “Federico II” and my undergraduate degree in Mathematics from the University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”, Italy. After my PhD I was Lecturer (ricercatore) at the University of Naples “Parthenope” in the excellence department of Quantitative Methods and at the same time member of the Bioinformatics Core of the Telethon Institute of Genetics and Medicine in Naples.
In 2015 I was awarded a 2 years Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship that I carried out in the research group of Professor Neil Lawrence both at the Department of Computer Science and Neuroscience (SITraN), University of Sheffield. I have been an academic at the University of Leeds since 2018 where my main role is to be Programme Manager for the following Masters programmes in the School of Mathematics:
Responsibilities
- Alan Turing Fellow (2021-2024)
- Leader of the Local DS&AI education Interest group
- Women In Machine Learning (WiML) board of Directors
Research interests
My current interests are related to Networks and Networks applications. In particular I am interested in graphical models, studying and validating Networks structures and in biomedical application.
Upcoming Events:
- Leeds Annual Statistical Research Workshop (LASR) 2026 29-30 June 2026, School of Mathematics, University of Leeds.
Past Events:
- Co-Organizer of the Leeds Annual Statistical Research Workshop (LASR) 2024 . Session hosted: Ethics and AI.
- Turing Workshop for Data Science educators 21st September 2022, University of Leeds. We hosted many speakers from Industry (Morrisons, ASDA, MathWorks), Academia (Leeds, Newcastle, Birmingham) and the Alan Turing Institute (full list of speakers here), with a panel discussion in the morning and interactive group discussions in the afternoon.
- Bioinformatics Awareness Day (BAD) – Single Cell RNAseq Hackathon (12th May 2022) provided researchers with the opportunity to gather, discuss, and implement ideas/projects during intensive and productive coding sessions in bioinformatics.
The topics were aligned to challenges proposed by the local applied statistics and mathematics and biomedical communities, with particular focus on Single Cell RNAseq data, together with training on a selection of new methodologies.
Website: https://conferences.leeds.ac.uk/bad-hackathon/ - Together with Professor Jeanine Houwing-Duistermaat, I organised a COST action event, Women in Networks (WiN), bringing together women from around the world working in networks modelling and applications and hosted at the School of Mathematics. You can read the news here.