Biography

Main Research and Teaching Areas and Interests

• Statistical Modeling and Applications to Antropology, Biomedicine, Biostatistics, Bioinformatics, Epidemiology, Econometrics, Engineering and Fraud Detection.

• Statistical Decision Theory and Bayesian Statistical Analyses

• Bayesian Modelling and Model Selection.

• Subjective and Objective Bayesian Statistics

• Foundations of Statistical Inference

• Statistical Computing and Data Science

• Extreme Value Theory

• Dynamical Models and Forecasting

• Structural and Causal Modeling

Education

• B.A. Universidad Simon Bolivar (Licenciado en Matematicas) 1975

• M.A. University of California, Berkeley (Statistics) 1978

• Ph.D. University of London, Imperial College, Department of Mathematics (Mathematical Statistics) 1981. Tutor Professor A.C. Atkinson, External Professor A.F.M. Smith.

• Ph.D. Thesis: “The assessment of prior distributions for competing linear models and transformations”

Positions and Professional Experience

Current 

• Full Professor Department of Mathematics, University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras. School of Natural Sciences. August 2001-Present. Tenured August 2003.

• Director of the Department of Mathematics August 2001-August 2007.

• Director of the Center for Biostatistics and Bioinformatics of the College of Natural Sciences, UPR-RRP, Nov. 2009-present.

• Co-Leader Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Bioinformatics Core (BEBiC) University of Puerto Rico/MD Anderson Cancer Center Partnership for Excellence in Cancer Research Third Cycle: 2013 - 2018 CA 096300 NCI-NIH.

Previous 

• Full Professor Dept. de Matematicas and Dept. Computo Cientifico y Estadistica:1993-2001, Universidad Sim_on Bolivar (USB).

• Associate Professor Departamento de Matematicas 1988-1993 USB

• Assistant Professor Departamento de Matem_aticas 1981-1988 USB

• Founder and Director of the Statistical Lab. USB 1984 - 1985 and 1986 - 1992

• Vice-Director Centro de Estad__stica y Software Matem_atico.(CESMa-USB) 1992-2000

• Founder Coordinator of the Graduate Studies in Statistics at USB, 1997-2000.

Visiting and Temporary Positions

• Assistant Professor (Lecturer), Universidad de Sao Paulo, Brasil,Aug.-Dec. 1985

• Temporary Lecturer (Lecturer), Imperial College, London Jan.- Dec. 1986

• Science and Engineering Research Council Fellow University of Nottingham, U.K. June -Sept.1988

• Science and Engineering Research Council Fellow University of Liverpool, U.K. Jan.- April 1989

• Science and Engineering Research Council Fellow University of Liverpool, U.K. Jan. 1991

• Associate Professor (Lecturer), Purdue University, July 1991-Jan.1992

• Visiting Professor University of Western Australia Jan-Feb. 1993

• Science and Engineering Research Council Fellow, University of Liverpool and Imperial College, July-Sept. 1993

• Visiting Professor (Lecturer), Departamento de Estadistica y Econometria, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Oct. 1993-Feb. 1994.

• Visiting Professor, Univ. Autonoma de Madrid, April-June 1997

• Visiting Professor, Institute of Statistical Decision Sciences, Duke University, September 2000- June 2001.

• Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council Fellow, University of Bristol, England, June-September 2001, and June 2002.

• Statistics and Applied Mathematics Institute (SAMSI), Research Triangle, North Carolina, USA. Visiting Researcher: September 2006; January 2007.

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