Victor Leiva Full Professor Escuela de Ingeniería Industrial Facultad de Ingeniería Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso (PUCV) Avenida Brasil 2241 Oficina IBC-5-21, quinto piso 2362807 Valparaíso CHILE Phone: (56)(32)2273714 Email: victorleivasanchez@gmail.com

Editorial and academic positions and main awards:

• Senior elected member of the IEEE.
• Elected member of the ISI (International Statistical Institute).
• Awarded by Stanford University and Elsevier as "World's top 2% scientists" since 2022 to 2025.
• Awarded by Research.com as "Top One" since 2022 to 2025 in the ranking of the best scientists in mathematics and statistics in Chile and Hispanic America.
• Member of the Award Selection Committee (formed by Professors from Australia, Chile, Korea, Norway, UK and USA) for The Karl Pearson Prize 2013, of Contemporary Research Contribution, awarded by the International Statistical Institute, considered as the Nobel Price in Statistics
• Awarded as the "Educator of the Year 2012" in Latin America, Brazil, Spain and Portugal by the "Juarez-Lincoln-Marti" Prize from USA.
• Editor-in-Chief of Chilean Journal of Statistics(by Chilean Statistical Society).
• Advisory Editor of Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment (by Springer).
• Associate Editor of Journal of Multivariate Analysis (by Elsevier).
• Associate Editor of Applied Stochastic Models in Business and Industry (by Wiley).
• Associate Editor of Biometrical Letters (by Polish Biometric Society)
• Associate Editor of Brazilian Journal of Probability and Statistics (by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics)
• Associate Editor of Colombian Journal of Statistics (by National University of Colombia).
• Associate Editor of Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods (by Taylor & Francis).
• Associate Editor of Communications in Statistics - Simulation and Computation (by Taylor & Francis).
• Associate Editor of Computational Statistics and Data Analysis (by Elsevier).
• Associate Editor of Hacettepe Journal of Mathematics and Statistics (by Hacettepe University, Turkey).
• Associate Editor of Journal of Applied Statistics (by Taylor & Francis).
• Associate Editor of Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation (by Taylor & Francis).
• Associate Editor of Pakistan Journal of Statistics.
• Associate Editor of REVSTAT Statistical Journal (by the National Institute of Statistics, Portugal)
• Associate Editor of Entre Ciencia e Ingeniería (by Universidad Católica de Pereira, Colombia).
• Founder and past Chair of the international PhD program in statistics UV-Chile.
• Former Head of the Department of Statistics UV-Chile.

Main studies:

• Doctor in mathematical sciences (major in statistics and operational research), Universidad de Granada, Spain, under the supervision of Dr. José A. Díaz-García.
• Posdoctoral fellow (in data science for business and industry), McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, under the supervision of Dr. N. Balakrishnan.

Areas of interest (in alphabetical order):

• Advanced applied multivariate analysis.
• Artificial intelligence, deep learning, and machine learning.
• Big data, business intelligence, data mining, and data science.
• Global and local Influence diagnostics and goodness-of-fit methods.
• Multivariate and univariate non-normal distributions.
• Quality control and operational research.
• Statistical learning and modeling, spatial models, PLS regression, EM algorithm and stochastic processes.