Curriculum Vitae
Education
- B.Sc. (Actuarial Science): Faculty of Sciences, National University of Mexico (1989).
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M.Sc. (Statistics): IIMAS, National University of Mexico (1991).
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Ph.D. (Statistics):
Imperial College London (1995).
Honours
- Elected as a Member of the International Statistical Institute; 2011.
- Awardee of the Jan Tinbergen Award 1997 (International Statistical Institute).
- Member of the National Research System (Mexico); 1996- .
Research areas
- General: Statistics and Probability, with emphasis in
Bayesian Inference and Decision Theory.
- Specific: Properties of Bayesian conjugate families for
exponential models, model selection, Bayesian nonparametric
methods.
[Publications]
Professional Services
- Teaching Assistant (Faculty of Sciences, UNAM; 1986-1989);
Research Assistant (IIMAS, UNAM; 1989-1991);
Associate Researcher (IIMAS, UNAM; 1995-1998);
Researcher (IIMAS, UNAM; 1998-).
- Head, Department of Probability and Statistics, (IIMAS, UNAM;
January 2005 - December 2006).
- Member of the Council, Mexican Statistical Association (1997-2001).
- Member of the Board of Directors, International Society for Bayesian Analysis (2001-2003; 2019-2021).
- Member of the Council, Latin-American Regional Chapter of the Bernoulli Society (2003-2006).
- President, Mexican Statistical Association (2009-2011).
- Associate Editor:
Estadística - Journal of the Inter-American Statistical Institute (1997-2002);
Bayesian Analysis (2004-2021);
Chilean Journal of Statistics (2019-).
- Advisory Editor:
Chilean Journal of Statistics (2009-2019).
- Co-Editor:
Bayesian Analysis (2022-).
- Member of Organizing Committees:
First Mexican Workshop on Bayesian Statistics (1998);
Second Mexican Workshop on Bayesian Statistics (1999);
14th Meeting of the Mexican Statistical Association (Chairman, 1999);
Third International Workshop on Objective Bayesian Methodology (2000);
2nd Latin-American Congress on Bayesian Statistics (2005);
23rd Meeting of the Mexican Statistical Association (2008);
25th Meeting of the Mexican Statistical Association (2010);
Third Mexican Workshop on Bayesian Statistics (2011);
8th International Workshop on Bayesian Nonparametrics (2011);
1st Simposium on Statistical Modelling and Inference (2016).
- Member of Scientific Committees:
23rd International Symposium on Forecasting (2003);
2nd Latin-American Congress on Bayesian Statistics (2005);
3rd Latin-American Congress on Bayesian Statistics (2011);
4th Latin-American Congress on Bayesian Statistics (2015);
5th Latin-American Congress on Bayesian Statistics (2017).
- Academic visits to the University of Nottingham, UK (1996);
Imperial College London, UK (1997); University of Valencia, Spain
(1998, 1999); Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (1998);
University of Pavia, Italy (1999); Fields Institute, Canada (1999);
Michigan State University, USA (2000, 2001); Bocconi University, Italy (2003);
University of Bath, UK (2003); University of Kent, UK (2007, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2012);
University of Texas at Austin, USA (2015); University of Washington, USA (2016).
- Invited speaker at the 3rd World Congress of the International Society for
Bayesian Analysis, Mexico (1995); 51st Session of the International
Statistical Institute, Turkey (1997); 13rd National Symposium on
Probability and Statistics, Brazil (1998); 7th Latin-American Congress on
Probability and Mathematical Statistics, Argentina (1998); 16th Meeting of
the Mexican Statistical Association, Mexico (2001); 8th Latin-American Congress
on Probability and Mathematical Statistics, Cuba (2001); 1st Latin-American Congress
on Bayesian Statistics, Brazil (2002); 7th Valencia International Meeting on Bayesian
Statistics, Spain (2002); 20th Meeting of the Mexican Statistical Association, Mexico (2005);
7th Seminar of the ASEPELT, Spain (2007); 9th Latin-American Congress of Statistical Societies,
Chile (2010); Conference in Honour of Professor Adrian F.M. Smith, Greece (2011);
Recent Advances in Statistical Inference-Theory and Case Studies, Italy (2013);
France-Mexico Meeting on Data Analysis, Mexico (2016).
Societies
- Bernoulli Society (1997-).
- International Society for Bayesian Analysis (1998-).
- International Statistical Institute (2011-).
- Mexican Statistical Association (1995-).
- Royal Statistical Society, UK (1994-).
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