Marina Vannucci (born 1966)[1] is an Italian statistician, the Noah Harding Professor and Chair of Statistics at Rice University, the past president of the International Society for Bayesian Analysis, and the former editor-in-chief of Bayesian Analysis.

Topics in her research include wavelets, feature selection, and cluster analysis in Bayesian statistics.

Vannucci earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics in 1992, from the University of Florence.

[2] Her dissertation, supervised by Antonio Moro, was On the Application of Wavelets in Statistics.

[2] The citation for her IMS fellowship credits her "for fundamental contributions to the theory and practice of Bayesian methods for variable selection, and of wavelet-based modeling, and for mentorship of young researchers".