Stochastic processes

CEMSE New Faculty: Joaquín Ortega Sánchez, Instructional Professor, Statistics

1 min read · Mon, Nov 4 2019

Stochastic processes Gaussian processes functional data analysis

Joaquín Ortega Sánchez is an instructional professor of statistics who joins the KAUST CEMSE Division after spending the last sixteen years working at the Mathematics Research Center (CIMAT) in Guanajuato, Mexico. Born in Venezuela, Ortega completed his postgraduate and graduate studies in London, where he studied mathematics at King’s College London, before obtaining his Ph.D. in Probability Theory across the city at Imperial College London. After his time in the U.K., he returned to his native Venezuela where he worked for over 20 years at the Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas. Over the course of his career, Ortega’s research work has focused on stochastic processes, specifically Gaussian processes and time series with applications in oceanography and biostatistics. And more recently his work has focused on functional data analysis.

Joaquin Ortega Sanchez

Instructional Professor, Statistics

Stochastic processes Gaussian processes functional data analysis

Joaquín Ortega Sánchez is an instructional professor of statistics whose work has focused on stochastic processes, specifically Gaussian processes and time series, and more recently, functional data analysis.