Ángel López-Oriona

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I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Zayed University (United Arab Emirates 🇦🇪), Dubai campus. My research focuses on computational statistics and time series analysis and forecasting, with applications in environmental science, biostatistics, and finance. I am particularly interested in research that combines rigorous mathematical and statistical developments with high-impact real-world applications, striking a balance between methodological depth and practical relevance.

Prior to joining Zayed University, I was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦), where I was a member of the Environmental Statistics Research Group led by Prof. Ying Sun and the Biostatistics Research Group led by Prof. Hernando Ombao. Prior to that, I earned my PhD in Statistics from the University of A Coruña (Spain 🇪🇸), advised by Prof. José Antonio Vilar Fernández. During my PhD, I completed research stays at Sapienza University of Rome (Italy 🇮🇹), the University of Sydney (Australia 🇦🇺), Helmut Schmidt University (Germany 🇩🇪), and Lancaster University (United Kingdom 🇬🇧).

Experience

Education

Research and CV

To have a complete overview of my research projects, you can take a look at my CV, where you can check my whole academic output. In any case, a summary of my main research interests is given below:

• Artificial intelligence.
• Biostatistics and digital health.
• Clustering and classification of time series.
• Computational statistics.
• Fuzzy logic and fuzzy set theory.
• Machine learning.
• Spatio-temporal statistics.
• Simulation-based inference.
• Time series analysis.
• Time series forecasting.

If you would like to have an academic collaboration with me, just send me a message and we can start discussing our next research project!

Awards

• Extraordinary Doctoral Award by the University of A Coruña (UDC) for the most outstanding PhD thesis defended during the academic year 2022-2023 in the category of Computer Science and Mathematics. My thesis, entitled New Methodological Contributions in Statistical Learning for Time Series, received the highest score among 19 candidate theses in this category. This thesis was supervised by Prof. José Antonio Vilar Fernández.
  2024

  
  

• Award by the International Federation of Classification Societies (IFCS) for the best work presented by a PhD student at the 17th Conference of the International Federation of Classification Societies (IFCS), held in Porto (Portugal).
  2022

  
  

• Young researcher grant awarded by the European Society for Fuzzy Logic and Technology (EUSFLAT) for the best work presented by a PhD student at the 13th International Workshop on Fuzzy Logic and Applications (WILF), held in Vietri sul Mare (Italy).
  2021

  
  

• Award by the company International Business Machines (IBM) for the development of the most accurate Deep Learning model in the 1st IBM Competition of Computer Vision held in the European University of Madrid.
  2020

  
  

• Award (shared with many colleagues) by the Royal Galician Academy of Sciences (RAGC) for the development of a project (called COVIDBENS) for analyzing and monitoring the COVID-19 pandemic in the area of A Coruña.
  2019

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Contact

I would love to hear your requests, suggestions, proposals, and advice! Feel free to reach out via email at oriona38@hotmail.com or send a WhatsApp message to my personal number, +34 636564332. Please don't hesitate to get in touch!