Carles M. Cuadras: Vitae

Summary of Curriculum Vitae

Personal Data

Carles M. Cuadras

Born in Figueres, Spain, on December 3th, 1945. Married to Maria Cinta, two sons (Guillem, Daniel), one daughter (Marta). Grandchildren (Lluis).
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 (1968-2015) University of Barcelona, Spain.

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.
Societat Catalana de Matemàtiques.
Societat Catalana d’Estadistica
International Statistical Institute (Elected in 1987).
American Statistical Association.

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.

· USA: Bowling Green State University, April 1998

· Spain: Universidad de Salamanca, March 2009

· Italy: Universita di Lecce, June 2009..

· Chile: Universidad La Frontera, January 2004, 2005, 2017, 2018.

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MAIN SUBJECTS ON WHICH I WAS WORKING

Topics

Key words and phrases

Biometry

Models and applications to psychology, medicine, pharmacology, genetics, human genetics, anthropology, geology, paleontology.

Probability distributions with given marginals

Generating probability distributions given the marginals, given dependence parameters, given a regression curve, FGM generalizations, functional, analysis, rank reduction.

Multidimensional Scaling and Corespondence Analysis

Exploring dimensions, dimensionality of ultrametric distances, applications to goodness-of-fit, representing models.

Orthogonal expansions

Orthogonal expansions of random variables, principal directions, characterization, inequalities

Statistical distances

Ultrametric distances, constructing distances between observations, probability densities, linear models, etc., entropy functions and partitions

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, two and multiple-sample tests based on distances.

Miscellaneous

Matrix patterns, Cauchy distribution, inequalities, series of constants, entropy

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: Qüestiió, 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.

PARTICIPATION IN CONGRESS AND SEMINARS (Selection)

· Seminario sobre Análisis Factorial en Ecología y Taxonomía

    Sant Bernat del Montseny (Spain, 14-16 Junio 1971.

· II Coloquio Internacional de Prehistoria

    Morella (Spain) 1-5 Mayo 1975.

· 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.

· XII Jornadas de Genética Luso Españolas

     Valencia 1976.

· FIRST WORLD CONFERENCE ON MATHEMATICS AT THE SERVICE OF MAN

    Barcelona, 11-16 July 1977.

· VI Jornadas Hispano-Lusas de Matemáticas

     Santander, 5-8 junio 1979.

· VII Jornadas Hispano-Lusas de Matemáticas

     Sant Fekiu de Guixols, Mayo 1980.

· SEIO XII Congreso Nacional

    Jaca, Septiembre 1980.

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

· SECOND WORLD CONFERENCE ON MATHEMATICS AT THE SERVICE OF MAN

    Las Palmas, June 28-July 3, 1982.

· X International Biometric Conference

    Toulouse, September 6-10, 1982.

· SEIO XIII Congreso Nacional

    Valladolid, 28 Septiembre -1 Octubre, 1982.

· 44th SESSION OF THE INTERNATIONAL STATISIICAL INSTITUE (ISI)

    Madrid, 12-23 September, 1983.

· SEIO XIV Congreso Nacional

    Granada, Abril 1984.

· I Jornadas de Bioestadística

    Barcelona, 25-28 Septiembre 1984.

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

· SEIO XV Congreso Nacional

    Gijón, Septiembre 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.

· Fourth Valencia International Meeting on Bayesian Statistics

    Peñíscola, April 15-20, 1991.

· 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.

· SEVENTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS (Second Part)
     Barcelona, 21-24 September 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.

·    SEIO XXI Congreso Nacional

      Calella 18-21 Abril 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.

· V CONFERENCIA ESPAÑOLA DE BIOMETRIA

     Valencia 21-23 Junio 1995.

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

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

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

· SEIO XXII Congreso Nacional

    Sevilla 14 - 17 Noviembre 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

· Sixth CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION of the CLASSIFICATION SOCIETIES IFCS-98

     Roma 21 - 24 July 1998

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

· SEIO XXIV Congreso Nacional

      Almeria (Spain), October 20-23, 1998.

· SEVENTH INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON MATRICES AND STATISTICS (T. W. Anderson 80^th birthday)

      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 TESTS AND VALIDITY OF MODELS

      Paris, May 29-31, 2000.

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

· VIII CONFERENCIA ESPAÑOLA DE BIOMETRIA

     Pamplona 28 -30 Marzo 2001.

· EUROPEAN MEETING OF STATISTICIANS
      Funchal (Madeira), 12-18 August, 2001.

· CHARACTERIZATIONS, MODELLING AND APPLICATIONS

     Antalya (Turkey), 7-9 December, 2001.

·   SEIO XXVI Congreso Nacional

    Ubeda 6- 9 Noviembre 2001.

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

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

· SEIO XXVII Congreso Nacional

     Lleida 8 - 11 Abril 2003.

· 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)
       Bedelewo (Poznan), 18-21 August, 2004.

· L’Estadística a l’Euroregió

    Barcelona, 13-14 Setembre 2004.

· SEIO XXVIII Congreso Nacional

      Cádiz 25 - 29 Octubre 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.

· X Conferencia Española de Biometria

     Oviedo 2005.

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

·   SEIO XXIX Congreso Nacional

    Tenerife 15 - 19 Mayo 2006.

· 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.

· XI Conferencia Española de Biometria y I Encuentro Iberoamericsno de Biometría

     Salamanca 20 -22 de Junio 2007.

· International Workshop on Statitical Modelling IWSM 07

      Barcelona 2-6 July 2007.

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

· SEIO XXX Congreso Nacional

    Valladolid 25 - 28 Septiembre 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.

· COMPSTAT 2008 International Conference on Computational Statistics

      Porto (Portugal), 24-29 August, 2008.

· SEIO XXXI Congreso Nacional

     Murcia 10 - 13 Febrero 2009

· 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 Conferencia Española de Biometria

     Cádiz 23 - 25 Septiembre 2009.

· Frontieres of Interfaces Between Statistics and Sciences

     Hyderabad (India), 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.

· SEIO XXXII Congreso Nacional

     La Coruña 14-17 Septiembre 2010.

· CodaWork 2011 4th International Workshop on Compositional Data Analysis

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

· The 9th Tartu Conference on Multivariate Statistics

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

· XIII Conferencia Española y III Encuentro Iberoamericano de Biometria

Barcelona 17-19 Septiembre 2011

· International Workshop on Correspondence Analysis and Related Methods

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

· SEIO XXXIII Congreso Nacional

    Madrid 17-20 Abril 2012.

· 6th EMS European Congress of Mathematics

    Krakow 2 - 7 July 2012

· Compstat 2012 20 th Internnational Conference on Computational Statistics

August 27-31 Limassol 2012.

· II Encuentro Conjunto Real Sociedad Matemática Española y la Sociedad .Matemática Mexicana

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

· SEIO XXXIV Congreso Nacional

      Castellon 11-13 Septiembre 2013.

· International Workshop on Proximity Data, Multivariate Analysis and Classification.

     Granada 9-10 October 2014.

· CARME Correspondence Analysis and Related Methods

     Naples 20-23 September 2015.

·   II International Workshop on Proximity Data, Multivariate Analysis and Classification

      Barcelona 20-21 October, 2016.

· Congreso Internacional de Estadística Facultad de Ciencias Espoch

      Riobamba (Ecuador) 22-24 Octubre 2018.

· CodaWork 2019 8th International Workshop on Compositional Data Analysis

      Terrassa (Spain) 3-8 June 2019.

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R E S E A R C H I N T E R E S T S	MAIN SUBJECTS ON WHICH I WAS WORKING
	Topics	Key words and phrases
	Biometry	*Models and applications to psychology, medicine, pharmacology, genetics, human genetics, anthropology, geology, paleontology.*
	Probability distributions with given marginals	*Generating probability distributions given the marginals, given dependence parameters, given a regression curve, FGM generalizations, functional, analysis, rank reduction.*
	Multidimensional Scaling and Corespondence Analysis	*Exploring dimensions, dimensionality of ultrametric distances, applications to goodness-of-fit, representing models.*
	Orthogonal expansions	*Orthogonal expansions of random variables, principal directions, characterization, inequalities*
	Statistical distances	*Ultrametric* *distances, constructing distances between observations, probability densities, linear models, etc., entropy functions and partitions*
	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, two and multiple-sample tests based on distances.
	Miscellaneous	*Matrix patterns, Cauchy distribution, inequalities, series of constants, entropy*

Summary of Curriculum Vitae

Personal Data

Carles M. Cuadras

MEMBER OF THE FOLLOWING ASSOCIATIONS

RELEVANT STAYS ABROAD

R E S E A R C H I N T E R E S T S

MAIN SUBJECTS ON WHICH I WAS WORKING

Topics

Key words and phrases

Biometry

Miscellaneous

CONSULTING

PARTICIPATION IN CONGRESS AND SEMINARS (Selection)

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