David Ríos Insua

David Ríos Insua (born June 21, 1964 in Madrid) is a Spanish mathematician, and son and disciple of Sixto Ríos, 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),^[1] which he joined in 2008.^[2][3] 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),^[4] 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,^[5] reservoirs management, counterterrorism model and many others. He is married and has two daughters.

Career

• He obtained his master's degree in Mathematics at Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM, 1987), with Extraordinary and National Awards.
• He did his PhD studies at Manchester and Leeds where he obtained his PhD degree in 1990.
• He has been a lecturer and researcher at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM), Duke University, Purdue University, Université Paris-Dauphine, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche-Istituto di Matematica Applicata e Tecnologie Informatiche (CNR-IMATI),^[6] Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute (SAMSI), where he was director of the Risk Analysis, Extreme Events and Decision Theory program.^[7]
• He was director of the Towards Electronic Democracy (TED) program de la European Science Foundation (ESF).^[8]
• He is current codirector of the Algorithmic Decision Theory (ALGODEC) program^[9] cofunded by the European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST) and the European Science Foundation (ESF).
• He has supervised 15 PhD theses.
• He has supervised over 40 cofunded projects.

Awards

• Extraordinary and National master's degree Award.
• UPM Award for young researchers.
• Ramiro Melendreras Award of Sociedad de Estadística e Investigación Operativa (SEIO) for young researchers.^[10]
• Peccei Award from International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) for young researchers.
• WirsboURJC Research Award.
• Everis Award from Capital Semilla.
• SRA Award for best Decision Analysis paper.

Publications

• He is author of more than 95 refereed scientific papers in international journals.^[11][12]
• He is the author of 15 books or monographs, including Sensitivity Analysis in Multiobjective Decision Making (Springer), Statistical Decision Theory (Kendall's),^[13] Robust Bayesian Analysis (Springer),^[14] E-Democracy: A GDN perspective (Springer), and Bayesian Analysis of Stochastic Processes (Wiley).
• He is or has been associated editor of journals such as the Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics,^[15] Group Decision and Negotiation,^[16] Journal of Multicriteria Decision Analysis,^[17] Serie A: Matemáticas de la Revista de la Real Academia de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales (RACSAM),^[18] International Journal of Public Information Systems.^[19] International Transactions in Operational Research.^[20] and Decision Analysis.^[21]

References

1. Royal Academy of Sciences, Spain (2009), David Ríos Insua, RAC Fellow, retrieved October 9, 2009
2. Anuario de la Real Academia de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales. Anuario 2009.
3. Anuario del Instituto de España. Anuario 2009.
4. Rey Juan Carlos University (2009), David Ríos Insua, Full Professor at URJC, retrieved October 26, 2009
5. Madridiario (2009), David Ríos Insua, Interview about Electronic Democracy in Madridiario, retrieved October 26, 2009
6. Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Italia (2009), Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche-Istituto di Matematica Applicata e Tecnologie Informatiche, retrieved October 26, 2009
7. Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute, US (2009), 2007-08 Program on Risk Analysis, Extreme Events and Decision Theory, retrieved October 26, 2009
8. European Science Foundation (2009), Towards Electronic Democracy: Internet based complex decision support (TED), retrieved October 26, 2009
9. COST-ESF (2009), Algorithmic Decision Theory (ALGODEC), retrieved October 26, 2009
10. Sociedad de Estadística e Investigación Operativa (2009), Premio Ramiro Melendreras de la SEIO para David Ríos Insua, retrieved October 26, 2009
11. Google Search (2009), David Ríos Insua, Google Search publications
12. Bibliographic Server DBLP (2009), David Ríos Insua, List of publications from Bibliographic Server DBLP, retrieved October 26, 2009
13. Wiley: Kendall's Library of Statistics 9 (2009), Simon French, David Rios Insua, Statistical Decision Theory, Arnold, London, 2000., retrieved October 26, 2009
14. Springer: Statistical Theory and Methods (2009), Rios Insua, David; Ruggeri, Fabrizio (Eds.), Robust Bayesian Analysis Series: Lecture Notes in Statistics, Vol. 152. Springer, 2000, retrieved October 26, 2009
15. American Statistical Association (2009), Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics, retrieved October 26, 2009
16. SpringerLink (2009), Group Decision and Negotiation, retrieved October 26, 2009
17. Wiley InterScience (2009), Journal of Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis, retrieved October 26, 2009
18. Royal Academy of Sciences, Spain (2009), Serie A: Matemáticas de la Revista de la Real Academia de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales, retrieved October 26, 2009
19. International Journal of Public Information Systems (2009), International Journal of Public Information Systems, retrieved October 26, 2009
20. International Transactions in Operational Research (2013), International Transactions in Operational Research, retrieved June 29, 2013
21. Decision Analysis (2013), Decision Analysis, retrieved June 29, 2013