Esteban Vegas

Esteban Vegas Lozano

Associate Professor

Department of Genetics, Microbiology and Statistics: Section of Statistics

(University of Barcelona)

evegas@ub.edu

Biosketch

I graduated in Biology (1986) and obtained a Ph.D. in Statistics (1996), at the program of Probability and Statistics, Universitat de Barcelona. I am currently Associate Professor (“Titular de Universidad”) of the Genetics, Microbiology and Statistics Department, Universitat of Barcelona.

Research areas:

• Machine Learning: Supervised and unsupervised methods applied to biological data as well kernel-based methods for visualizing and the integrative analysis of several omics data.
• Bioinformatics: Application multivariate techniques to analysis data sets of high-throughput techniques.

Publication links: ORCID, ResearcherID, LINKEDIN, SCOPUS, GScholar

Education

Ph.D. in Biology, University of Barcelona, 1996

BSc in Biology, University of Barcelona, 1986

Teaching

Foundations of Bioinformatics. Master in Statistics and Operations Research UPC-UB

Statistical Learning. Master in Statistics and Operations Research UPC-UB

Bioinformatics. Degrees in Biochemistry, Biotechnology and Biomedical Sciences UB

Statistics for Biosciences. Degrees in Statistics UPC-UB

Statistical Techniques of Data Analysis. Master in Ecology, Management and Restoration of Natural Environment UB