Daniel Peña (engineer)

Daniel Peña Sánchez de Rivera (Madrid, 1948) is a Spanish engineer.

Daniel Peña
Daniel Peña (2010)

Education

Peña obtained a Ph.D in industrial engineering from the Technical University of Madrid and studied sociology and statistics at Complutense University of Madrid and business administration Harvard University. He is an active researcher in statistics and econometrics and was rector of Charles III University of Madrid in 2007-2015.[1]

Career

He has been professor at Technical University of Madrid, and visiting professor at University of Wisconsin–Madison and University of Chicago. He is now professor at Charles III University of Madrid. He has been director of the Journal Revista Estadística Española and President of Sociedad española de Estadística e Investigación Operativa, Vicepresident of the Interamerican Statistical Institute and President of European Courses in Advanced Statistics.

He has published fourteen books and more than 200 research articles in time series analysis, multivariate methods, Bayesian Statistics and Econometrics that have received more than 8,000 references . He is fellow of the American Statistical Association, The Institute of Mathematical Statistics and member of the International Statistical Institute and has received the Jouden Prize in 2006, from ASA and ASQ, and the Premio Rey Jaime I for his research in 2011.

References
  1. "Daniel Peña es reelegido como Rector de la Universidad Carlos III de Madrid". EcoDiario.es (in Spanish). EFE. 25 March 2011. Retrieved 9 June 2017.
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