Antonella Plaia is Full Professor of Statistics at the Department of Economics, Business and Statistics of the University of Palermo. She has been the coordinator of the bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Statistics at the University of Palermo. The main research fields are Multivariate Data Analysis, Ensemble methods for Classification, Data Mining of large-scale data, and Functional Data Analysis. Currently, she works especially on Textual Data Analysis and Preference data. She has been a supervisor of many Ph.D. theses at the Doctorate in Economics and Statistics and a tutor of post-doc at the University of Palermo. She has been a referee of Ph.D. and master theses at Italian and foreign Universities.