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Summary of Curriculum Vitae

COMPLETE CV

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Personal Data

Carles M. Cuadras

• Born in Figueres, Spain, on December 3th, 1945. Married to Maria Cinta, two sons (Guillem, Daniel), one daughter (Marta). Guardian of a sister (Lídia).
• Master Mathematics at University of Barcelona (1968).
• Ph. D. Mathematics at University of Barcelona (1973).
• Diplom in Informatics at University of Barcelona (1981).
• Professor of Statistics at the University of Barcelona, Spain.

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MEMBER OF THE FOLLOWING ASSOCIATIONS

• Asociacion de Técnicos en Informática.
• Sociedad de Estadistíca e Investigación Operativa.
• International Biometric Society
  (President of the Spanish Region 1995-1996) Elected member of the Council (1996-1999)
• European Directory of Cancer Clinical Trial Statisticians.
• Societat Catalana de Biologia.
• Societat Catalana de Matemàtiques.
• International Statistical Institute (Elected in 1987).
• American Statistical Association.

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RELEVANT STAYS ABROAD

· Spain: Universities of Granada, Sevilla, Salamanca, Madrid, Bilbao, Leon, Santiago,    Carlos III, etc., since 1980.

· England: University of London. August 1970 and September 1972.

· France: University of París VI. May 1976.

· USA: University of Pittsburgh. July 1987.

· Holland: University of Amsterdam. July-August 1988.

· Italy: University of Padua. March 1990.

· Poland: Wroclaw, Institute of Computer Science. June 1990.

· Estonia. University of Tartu. September 1990.

· Checoeslovaquia: Bratislava. Institute of Measurement Science. October 1991.

· Canada: Montreal. McGill University. May 1992.

· USA: University of Washington (Seattle). AMS-IMS-SIA Summer Research Conferences. July-August 1993.

· Canada. British Columbia University. August 1993.

· USA: The Pennsylvania State University. Dep. of Statistics. July 1995.

· Canada: Simon Fraser University and British Columbia University, July 1997.

· USA: Stanford University, July 1997. (Stanford)

· USA: Bowling Green State University, April 1998.

· Chile: Universidad La Frontera, January 2004.

· Spain: Universidad de Salamanca, March 2009

· Italy: Universita di Lecce, June 2009.

R E S E A R C H I N T E R E S T S	MAIN SUBJECTS ON WHICH I AM WORKING
	Topics	Key words and phrases
	Probability distributions with given marginals	Generating probability distributions given the marginals, given dependence parameters, given a regression curve.
	Multidimensional Scaling: Theory and Applications	Exploring dimensions, dimensionality of ultrametrics, orthogonal expansions of random variables, applications to goodness-of-fit, representing models.
	Statistical distances	Constructing distances between observations, probability densities, linear models, etc.
	Regression and distance-based prediction	Inequalities in multiple correlation and regression, quirks in regression, prediction using principal coordinate dimensions, regression with mixed variables
	Discriminant Analysis and distance-based tests	Distance-based and proximity function approach in discrimination, classification with mixed and nominal variables, constructing probability densities from distances, tests based on distances.
	Biometry	Applications to psychology, medicine, pharmacology, genetics, human genetics, anthropology, geology, paleontology.

CONSULTING

• Consulting in Ciba-Geigy, S.A. (1971-1985)
• Consulting in Sandoz, S.A. (1978-1982)
• Generalitat de Catalunya, Departament de Medi Ambient
• Generalitat de Catalunya, Institut d'Estadística de Catalunya
• Unitat de Biologia Cel.lular, UAB
• Executive Editor of QÜESTIÓ
• Associate Editor of TEST.
• Editor in Chief of SORT.
• Associate Editor of Scientia Marina.
• Reviewer of many journals: Qüestió, TEST, Estadística Española, J. of Multivariate Analysis, Ecology and Environmental Statistics, Linear Algebra and its Applications, J. of Classification, Statistica Applicata, Ecologia Aquatica, Psychometrika, Scientia Marina, Biometrics, Biometrical Journal, etc.

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PARTICIPATION IN CONGRESS AND SEMINARS (Selection)

· II SIMPOSIO NACIONAL DE PROBABILIDADE E STATISTICA.
Universidade de Campinas (Sao Paulo), Brasil, 28 June-3 July 1976.

· XXI CONGRES INTERNATIONAL DE PSYCOLOGIE.
Paris, 18-25 July 1976.

· INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON "CONCEPT AND METHOD IN PALEONTOLOGY"
      Barcelona, 5-8 May 1981.

· 4th EUROPEAN MEETING OF THE PSYCHOMETRIC SOCIETY AND THE CLASSIFICATION SOCIETIES
      Cambridge (G.B.), 2-5 July, 1985.

· SECOND CATALAN INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON STATISTICS.
Barcelona, 18-19 September 1986.

· Journées Internationales sur ANALYSE STATISTISTIQUE DES GRANDES TABLEAUX ET DONNEES D'ENQUETE
      Blanes (Spain), 6-8 May 1987.

· INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON RECENT DELOPMENTS IN STATISTICAL DATA ANALYSIS AND INFERENCE
Neuchdtel (Switzerland), 21-24 August 1989.

· 47th SESSION OF THE INTERNATIONAL STATISTICAL INSTITUTE
      Paris, 29 August-6 September 1989.

· Seminar on IDENTIFICATION. TECHNIQUES AND PRACTICE
Sobotka (Poland), 20-24 June 1990.

· 19TH EUROPEAN MEETING OF STATISTICIANS
      Barcelona, 2-6 September 1991.

· DISTANCIA'92 INTERNATIONAL MEETING ON DISTANCE ANALYSIS
      Rennes, 22-26 June 1992.

· SEVENTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS
      University Park (USA), 5-9 May. Barcelona, 21-24 Sept. 1992.

· INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LINEAR STATISTICAL INFERENCE
      Poznan (Poland), 31 May-4 June, 1993.

· DISTRIBUTIONS WITH FIXED MARGINALS, DOUBLY STOCHATIC MEASURES AND MARKOV OPERATORS
      University of Washington (Seattle, USA), 1-5 August, 1993.

· GESELLSCHAFT FÜR KLASSIFIKATION e.V. 18th Annual Conference
      Oldenburg, Germany, 8-11 March, 1994.

· THE 5TH TARTU CONFERENCE ON MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS
      Tartu (Estonia), 23-27 May, 1994.

· ADVANCES IN DESCRIPTIVE MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS
      Salamanca (Spain), 1-2 July, 1994.

· VISUALIZATION OF CATEGORICAL DATA
      Köln (Germany), 17-19 May, 1995.

· MATRIX METHODS FOR STATISTICS WORKSHOP
      Montreal (Canada), 15-16 July 1995.

· STATISTICS DAY
      The Center for Multivariate Analysis, Penn State University, 22 July 1995.

· 50th SESSION OF THE INTERNATIONAL STATISTICAL INSTITUTE
      Beijing (China) 21-29 August 1995.

· 18th INTERNATIONAL BIOMETRIC CONFERENCE
      Amsterdam (Holland), July 1-5, 1996

· 20th BIENNIAL CONFERENCE OF THE SOCIETY FOR MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS IN THE BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES
      Barcelona, July 8-10, 1996

· XII Symposium on Computational Statistics COMPSTAT'96
      Barcelona, 26-30 August, 1996

· 3th CONFERENCE on DISTRIBUTIONS WITH GIVEN MARGINALS AND MOMENT PROBLEMS
      Prague (Czech Republic), September 2-6, 1996

· GCASP meeting (Group Computer Algebra Statistics Probability)
      Barcelona, 16-20 September, 1996

· NGUS'97 IV International Meeting on MULTIDIMENSIONAL ANALYSIS
      Bilbao, 10-12 September, 1997

· VI CONFERENCIA ESPAÑOLA DE BIOMETRIA
      Córdoba, 21-24 September, 1997

· STATISTICS FOR THE 21st CENTURY
      Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, April 24-26, 1998.

· XXIV CONGRESO NACIONAL DE ESTADISTICA E I.O.
Almeria (Spain), October 20-23, 1998.

· SEVENTH INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON MATRICES AND STATISTICS
      Fort Lauderdale, Florida, December 11-14, 1998.

· THE GEOMETRY OF DATA ANALYSIS
      Oxford, GB, January 7-8, 1999.

· VII CONFERENCIA ESPAÑOLA DE BIOMETRIA
      Palma de Mallorca (Spain), March 10-12, 1999.

· STATISTICS: REFLEXIONS ON THE PAST VISIONS FOR THE FUTURE
      San Antonio (Texas), March 16-19, 2000.

· INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON GOODNESS-OF-FIT AND VALIDITY OF MODELS
      Paris, May 29-31, 2000.

· DISTRIBUTIONS WTH GIVEN MARGINALS AND STATISTICAL MODELLING
      Barcelona, 17-20 July, 2000.

· 23 EUROPEAN MEETING OF STATISTICIANS
      Madeira, 12-18 August, 2001.

· CHARACTERIZATION, MODELLING AND APPLICATIONS 2001  
     Antalya (Turkey), 7-9 December, 2001.

· 24 EUROPEAN MEETING OF STATISTICIANS
Praga, 19-23 August, 2002. 

· THE 11th INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON MATRICES AND STATISTICS 
        Copenhagen, 29-31 August, 2002.

· WORKSHOP ON PARAMETRIC MODELS AND APPLICATIONS
        Mont Saint Michel 15-17 May, 2003.

·  INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CORRESPONDENCE ANALYSIS AND RELATED METHODS
        Barcelona, June 29 - July 2, 2003.

· COMPOSITIONAL DATA ANALYSIS WORKSHOP
Girona, 15-17 October, 2003.

· DEPENDENCE MODELLING STATISTICAL  THEORY AND APPLICATIONS TO FINANCE AND INSURANCE
        Quebec, 20-22 May 2004.

· INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DISTRIBUTION THEORY, ORDER STATISTICS AND INFERENCE
       Santander, 16-18 June 2004.

· 6th WORLD CONGRESS OF THE BERNOULLI SOCIETY FOR MATHEMATICAL SATISTICS AND PROBABILITY
       Barcelona, 26-31 July 2004.

· THE 13th INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON MATRICES AND STATISTICS (IWMS-2004)
       Poznan, 18-21 August, 2004.

· THE 14th INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON MATRICES AND STATISTICS (IWMS-2005)
Aucckland, 29 March-1 April, 2005.

· 55th SESSION OF THE INTERNATIONAL STATISTICAL INSTITUTE
     (ISI)  Sydney, 5-12 April, 2005

· II COMPOSITIONAL DATA ANALYSIS WORKSHOP 
Girona, 19-21 Octoner , 2005.

· INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MATHEMATICAL AND STATISTICAL MODELLING 
      Ciudad Real, 28-30 June 2006.

· XIII INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INTERDISCIPLINARY MATHEMATICS AND STATISTICAL  TECHNIQUES
Tomar (Portugal) 1-4 September  2006.

· VI CONFERENCE ON MULTIVARIATE DISTRIBUTIONS WITH FIXED MARGINALS 
       Tartu (Estonia) 26-29 June 2007.

· 56th SESSION OF THE INTERNATIONAL STATISTICAL INSTITUTE (ISI)
Lisboa, 22-29 August, 2007

· III COMPOSITIONAL DATA ANALYSIS WORKSHOP 
Girona, 27-30 May, 2008

· FIRST JOINT MEETING of the Société Francophone de  Classification and the Classification and
    Data Analysis Group of the   Italian Statistical Society 
    Caserta (Italy), June 11-13, 2008.

· XXIV INTERNATIONAL BIOMETRIC CONFERENCE
    Dublin, July 13-18,  2008.

· 5th Conference of the Eastern Mediterranean Region of the International Biometric Society
    Istanbul, 10-14 May, 2009.

· Distributions with given marginals: 50th Anniversary of Copulas
    Lecce, 10-12 June 2009.

· CLADAG 2009 Seventh Scientific Meeting of the ClAssification and Data Analysis Group of the Italian Statistical Society
    Catania, 9-11 September 2009.

· XII Congreso Nacional de Biometría

Cádiz,  September 22-24, 2009.

· Frontieres of Interfaces Between Statistics and Sciences

Hyderabad, December 29-January 2, 2010.

· Information Geometry and its Applications III

Leipzig, August 2 - 6, 2010.

· LinStat'2010 - International Conference on Trends and Perspectives in Linear Statistical Inference

Tomar (Portugal), July 27-31, 2010.

· COMPSTAT 2010 19th International Conference on Computational Statistics

Paris, August 22-27, 2010.

· CodaWork 2011 4th International Workshop on Compositional Data Analysis

Sant Feliu de Guixols, Tomar (Portugal), May 9-13, 2011.

· The 9th Tartu Conference on Multivariate Statistics

Tartu, Estonia, June 26-July 1, 2011.

· International Workshop on Correspondence Analysis and Related Methods

Assos (Turkey), October 1-4, 2011.

· Encuentro Conjunto Real Soc. Matemática Española- Soc.Matemática Mexicana

Torremolinos (Málaga), January 17-20, 2012.

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