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Eduardo García Portugués



I am Associate Professor ("Profesor Titular de Universidad") at the Department of Statistics of Carlos III University of Madrid. My research mainly concerns the development of statistical methodologies related to complex and non-Euclidean data (such as directional and functional data) from the perspectives of mathematical, nonparametric, and computational statistics.

Previously, I was a "Juan de la Cierva–Incorporación" fellow and Assistant Professor at the same department, and I was a postdoc at the Department of Mathematical Sciences and at the Department of Biology, both at the University of Copenhagen. I obtained my PhD in Statistics and Operations Research from the University of Santiago de Compostela in December 2014 with the dissertation "Nonparametric inference with directional and linear data". Before that, I completed a MSc in Statistical Techniques (2012) and a BSc in Mathematics (2010), both at the University of Santiago de Compostela.

I serve as the group head of the Nonparametric Inference for Complex Data and its Applications (NICDA) research group and as Associate Editor for Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics, Computational Statistics, and Statistics and Probability Letters.

Positions

  • 2021 Present

    Associate Professor ("Profesor Titular de Universidad")

    Carlos III University of Madrid, Department of Statistics

  • 2019 2021

    "Juan de la Cierva–Incorporación" fellow

    Carlos III University of Madrid, Department of Statistics

  • 2018 2023

    Deputy director of the MSc in Statistics for Data Science

    Carlos III University of Madrid

  • 2016 2019

    Assistant Professor ("Profesor Visitante")

    Carlos III University of Madrid, Department of Statistics

  • 2015 2016

    Postdoctoral fellow

    University of Copenhagen, Department of Mathematical Sciences and Department of Biology

  • 2012 2015

    "Formación del Profesorado Universitario" (FPU) scholar

    University of Santiago de Compostela, Department of Statistics and Operations Research; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Department of Statistics and Operations Research

  • 2013

    Barrié Foundation scholar

    Catholic University of Louvain, Institute of Statistics, Biostatistics and Actuarial Sciences

  • 2011

    Predoctoral researcher

    University of Santiago de Compostela, Department of Statistics and Operations Research

  • 2009 2010

    Departmental scholar

    University of Santiago de Compostela, Department of Statistics and Operations Research

Qualifications

  • PhD 2011–2014

    PhD in Statistics and Operations Research

    University of Santiago de Compostela, Department of Statistics and Operations Research

  • MSc2010–2012

    MSc in Statistical Techniques

    University of Santiago de Compostela, Department of Statistics and Operations Research

  • BSc2005–2010

    BSc in Mathematics, major in Statistics and Operations Research

    University of Santiago de Compostela

Awards

  • 2020
    SEIO-FBBVA award to the best methodological contribution in statistics
    Granted by the Spanish Society of Statistics and Operations Research (SEIO) and the BBVA Foundation (FBBVA) to the best methodological contribution in statistics within the last five years: Goodness-of-fit tests for the functional linear model based on randomly projected empirical processes, coauthored with Juan A. Cuesta-Albertos, Manuel Febrero-Bande, and Wenceslao González-Manteiga. See the news of the award resolution at the FBBVA and SEIO websites. A dossier of the awarded contribution is given in the FBBVA website. A video presentation with all the SEIO-FBBVA 2020 awardees is available here, while an interview to Manuel Febrero-Bande and Wenceslao González-Manteiga describing the article and its origins is given here. More information about the award at the Europa Press coverage and in an interview in RIZOMA, the magazine of the Carlos III University of Madrid.
  • 2020
    Excellence award for outstanding young professors (UC3M)
    Granted by Carlos III University of Madrid to outstanding young professors. You can find more information about the prize on the awards website.
  • 2015
    Ramiro Melendreras award (SEIO)
    Granted by the Spanish Society of Statistics and Operations Research (SEIO) to the best work presented by a young researcher in the SEIO 2015 conference: Nonparametric testing in linear-directional regression, with application to protein structure inference. You can read the history of the Ramiro Melendreras award at SEIO's website and find coverage of the award by a local newspaper.
  • 2013
    Young researchers award (SGAPEIO)
    Granted by the Galician Society for the Promotion of Statistics and Operations Research (SGAPEIO) and the Barrié Foundation to the best work presented by a young researcher in the SGAPEIO 2013 conference: Goodness-of-fit tests for directional and linear data.
  • 2012
    Extraordinary award in the MSc in Statistical Techniques (USC)
    Granted by the University of Santiago de Compostela to the most outstanding student of the cohort.
  • 2010
    Extraordinary award in the Bachelor of Science in Mathematics (USC)
    Granted by the University of Santiago de Compostela to the most outstanding student of the cohort.