Personal Website

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Contact

I'm Fernando, a 4^th year Ph.D. student at the Warwick Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT)Link opens in a new window. My current research is on methodological developments in MCMC; in particular, I am working with Prof. Gareth RobertsLink opens in a new window and Dr. Nick TawnLink opens in a new window on D-ALPS, a non-reversible extension to the Annealed Leap-Point Sampler for multimodal distributions and trans-dimensional sampling.

Before entering the CDT, I coursed at Warwick an MSc in StatisticsLink opens in a new window. Previous to my arrival at Warwick, I worked at two Statistical and Data Science consulting firms in my home country, Mexico. There, amongst other responsibilities, I helped develop models for political polling and public opinion, and the implementation of statistical learning techniques for market research clients.

I hold a BSc in Actuarial Science and a BA in International Relations from ITAM (Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México)Link opens in a new window. You are welcome to visit my personal websiteLink opens in a new window.

Teaching Assistant

• ST407-Monte Carlo Methods, Warwick (2023, 2024)
• ST202-Stochastic Processes, Warwick (2023)
• ST301/ST413-Bayesian Statistics and Decision Theory, Warwick (2022)
• ST104-Statistical Laboratory, Warwick (2022)
• Probability I, Ciencias-UNAMLink opens in a new window (2019)

Presentations

• A New OR... the RSS Olympic prediction edition!
  • RSS International Conference, Brighton, England (2024)
• D-ALPS: A Non-Reversible Extension of the Annealed Leap-Point Sampler
  • ISBA World Meeting, Ca' Foscari, Venice, Italy (2024)
  • YRM, Department of Statistics, University of Warwick, Coventry, England (2024)
  • XXI Symposium MexSocUK, University of Cambridge, England (2024)
• Hamiltonian Monte Carlo
  • WDSS Student Speaker Series (2021)
• Polls, Prediction, and the POTUSLink opens in a new window
  
  • WDSS Student Speaker Series (2020)

Posters

• D-ALPS: Incorporating non-reversible temperature swapping to the Annealed Leap-Point SamplerLink opens in a new window;
  • BayesComp, Levi, Finland (2023)
  • Warwick Statistics Departmental Conference, Gregynog, Wales (2023)
• Countries at the United Nations General Assembly had mostly stable political positions aligned with regional groups during the period 2012-2020Link opens in a new window
  • YRM, Department of Statistics, University of Warwick, Coventry, England (2022)

Roles

• RedEx-ITAM United Kingdom Organizing Committee (2023-2024)
• Ph.D. SSLC Chair (2022-2024)
• Ph.D. Cohort Student Representative (2021-current)
• SSLC Chair and MSc Student RepresentativeLink opens in a new window (2020-2021)
• Warwick Data Science Society Vice PresidentLink opens in a new window (2020-2021)

Awards and Prizes

• Higher Performance Contribution Award (2024) given by the Department of Statistics, University of Warwick.
• RSS Olympic Prediction Competition (Student Prize, 2024), given by the Royal Statistical Society's Statistics in Sports Section and graciously sponsored by Amelco.
• Graduate Teaching Assistant Prize (Term 1, 2023), given by the Department of Statistics, University of Warwick.
• Francisco Aranda Ordaz PrizeLink opens in a new window(2021), given by the Mexican Statistical Association to my undergraduate dissertationavailable here (in Spanish)Link opens in a new window.
• XXVI Ex-ITAM Research PrizeLink opens in a new window(2021), given by the ITAM Alumni Association.

Useful Links

Without all the amazing people collaborating, publishing, and developing tools, our work wouldn't be the same. So here are some links to organizations, institutions, and resources (some in Spanish) that have helped me along the way, maybe you find them useful too!