Albert Dorador
I am a PhD Candidate in the Department of Statistics at the University of Wisconsin - Madison, "la Caixa" Fellow. Google Scholar.
Research area | Interpretable Machine Learning (producing new algorithms and theory)
Co-advised by Emeritus Professor Zhengjun Zhang, and Professor Wei-Yin Loh
"Interpretable AI is an enhancement of human decision making, black box AI is a replacement of it" - Rudin et al. '22
Academic Background | M.S. Statistics & O.R. (Barcelona Tech), B.S. Business Economics and Bachelor of Laws (Universitat Pompeu Fabra), STEM exchange student-athlete (Rowing) at Carnegie Mellon University
Professional Background | Quantitative Risk Analyst (European Central Bank), Transaction Advisory Services (Deloitte)
Contact | albert [dot] dorador [at] wisc [dot] edu
UW-Madison, Department of Statistics, B248 A, Medical Sciences Center
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Currently teaching: STAT-240 (Data Science Modeling)
Office hours: @ my office (B248, Medical Sciences Center) Tue 3:15 - 4 pm + Wed 1:15 - 2 pm on Zoom
Sept. '23: Delighted to report that all my PhD students in STAT-610 have passed their Qualifying exam! Way to go!
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"Ever Tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." Samuel Beckett
"All models are wrong, but some are useful." George Box, founding Professor of our Statistics Dept here at UW-Madison
"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler." Albert Einstein
"Per ardua ad astra". Latin saying
Publications
Journal Articles
Arratia, A. and Dorador, A. (2019) On the efficacy of stop-loss rules in the presence of overnight gaps, Quantitative Finance, 19:11, 1857-1873. Link to article
Working Papers and Preprints
Generalization Bounds for Pruned Regression Forests
Improving the Accuracy and Interpretability of Random Forests via Forest Pruning, arXiv e-print
Constrained Max Drawdown: a Fast and Robust Portfolio Optimization Approach, arXiv e-print
Software
Dorador, A., Boggs, M., Huang, S., Yee, R. (2022) US College Rankings App.
Dorador, A. (2017) R Package 'analytics' (3.0), CRAN. Link to package [soon fixed]
Dorador, A. and Thygesen, U. H. (2016) R Package 'complexplus' (2.1), CRAN. Link to package
Dorador, A. (2016) R Package 'powerplus' (3.1), CRAN. Link to package
Music
Al Zero, Adagio [Single] (2023). Available on all the main music platforms, such as Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, or YouTube.
Al Zero, Tonight [Single] (2022). Available on all the main music platforms, such as Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, or YouTube.