Riccardo Omenti

Riccardo Omenti is a research fellow in demography at the Department of Statistical Science of the University of Bologna. Riccardo received his Ph.D. in Statistics from the University of Bologna in 2025, with the dissertation "Blank Space: Demographic Estimation in Data-sparse Contexts".

His research interests include computational social science, family demography, statistical demography, mortality and artificial intelligence.

He is currently working on two major projects. The first examines the impact of socio-demographic factors on occupational exposure to Generative Artificial Intelligence. The second project relies on Bayesian modeling techniques to construct subnational fertility estimates in Italy using digitized census tables by the Italian National Institute of Statistics ISTAT.