George Kanchaveli

I am a fourth-year Ph.D. student in Statistics at Bocconi University, advised by Hugo Lavenant and Marta Catalano.

Before starting my Ph.D., I obtained an M.Sc. in Statistics from the University of Turin and the Collegio Carlo Alberto, and a B.Sc. in Economics, Management, and Computer Science from Bocconi University.

My research interests lie in mathematical statistics, particularly in its connections with optimal transport. I am also interested in Markov Chain Monte Carlo methods, Machine Learning, and Bayesian Nonparametrics.

You can contact me by email: george.kanchaveli@phd.unibocconi.it

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Research

(Ongoing) Two-sample test for laws of random probabilities via exchangeability and optimal transport

Marta Catalano, George Kanchaveli, Hugo Lavenant.

We propose a new two-sample testing procedure for comparing distributions over random probability measures, leveraging optimal transport and empirical process theory to develop a distance-based method with strong theoretical guarantees.

Teaching

I participated as a Teaching Assistant in the following courses:

• 30407 - ADVANCED MATHEMATICS AND STATISTICS (Fall 2024, 2025)
• 20602 - COMPUTER SCIENCE (ALGORITHMS) (Spring 2025)
• 30412 - MACHINE LEARNING (Spring 2025)
• 30448 - MATHEMATICS (Fall 2023, 2024)

Conferences, Workshops, Summer schools.

• Presented poster — BNP-ISBA 14, Los Angeles, 2025
• Attended — Early Career Workshop on Nonparametric Statistics, Rome, 2024
• Attended — Workshop: Optimal Transportation and Applications, Pisa, 2024
• Attended — ISBA, Venice, 2024
• Attended — StatML summer school in Causality, Reinforcement Learning, and Statistical Learning, 2023