News
9–25 February 2026: PhD course
Title: “Statistical Process Monitoring of High-Dimensional Engineering Data”
PhD Program in Industrial Engineering (a.y. 2024/2025)
Students can enroll by filling out the enrollment form before January 31, 2026.
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🏆 November 2025: The project “SMADI – Statistical Methods for Anomaly Detection in Industry 4.0”
has been selected as winner of the Departmental Research Projects Call
reserved for non-tenure-track researchers (RTD-A) of the Department of Industrial Engineering
at the University of Naples Federico II, 2025 Edition (1st place out of 9 submitted projects).
Team: Christian Capezza (Principal Investigator), Davide Forcina, and Prof. Kamran Paynabar (Georgia Tech).
Funding: €20,000.
September 2025: Christian Capezza taught the
ECAS course at
ENBIS-25 in Piraeus, 14–18 September 2025.
The course focuses on the funcharts R package for statistical process monitoring of functional data.
July 2025: ISSPM 2025 successfully organized by SFERe on 7–11 July in Naples!
The 8th International Symposium on Statistical Process Monitoring (ISSPM 2025) featured prominent international speakers and a special session dedicated to Prof. Ross Sparks.
🏆 July 2025: SFERe group wins the Industrial Data Challenge at
ICQSR 2025 in Singapore!
Our team, represented by Christian Capezza, Davide Forcina, and Antonio Lepore, took first place among 30+ international teams, with the final held at Micron.
June 2025: Christian Capezza presented at QPRC 2025 in Seattle, in the invited Technometrics session on our research paper
“Robust Multivariate Functional Control Charts”.
You can read the open access paper here.
1 January 2025: PhD Course Announcement!
The SFERe group is pleased to announce a new 24-hour PhD course titled “Statistical Process Monitoring of High-Dimensional Engineering Data”.
This course is part of the PhD Program in Industrial Engineering (A.Y. 2024/2025).
Lessons were held from 3 to 27 February 2025.
For more information, check the flyer of the course.
Students could enroll by filling out the enrollment form before January 31, 2025.