David Ríos Insua
David Ríos Insua (born June 21, 1964 in
Madrid) is a
Spanish mathematician, and son and disciple of
Sixto Ríos, the "father of Spanish statistics." He is currently also the youngest Fellow of the
Spanish Royal Academy of Sciences (de la Real Academia de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales, RAC), which he joined in 2008. He received a
PhD in Computational Sciences at the
University of Leeds. He is Full Professor of the Statistics and Operations Research Department at
Rey Juan Carlos University (URJC), and he has been Vice-dean of New Technologies and International Relationships at URJC (2002–2009). He has worked in fields such as
Bayesian inference in neuronal networks, MCMC methods in decision analysis, Bayesian robustness or adversarial risk analysis. He has also worked in applied areas such as Electronic Democracy, reservoirs management, counterterrorism model and many others. He is married and has two daughters.
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