Edgar Acuña (born February 26, 1956) is a Professor of Statistics, Data Mining and Machine Learning at the University of Puerto Rico in UPRM.

Early life and education

Edgar Acuña was born on February 26, 1956, in

Chincha Alta Chincha Alta is a Peruvian city located in the Ica Region. A major port at the mouth of the Chincha River, it is the capital of Chincha Province. The city has a population of about 233,000, making it the 17th largest city in Peru. Geography The ...

Peru Peru, officially the Republic of Peru, is a country in western South America. It is bordered in the north by Ecuador and Colombia, in the east by Brazil, in the southeast by Bolivia, in the south by Chile, and in the south and west by the Pac ...

. He started his elementary school education at

Chala The Chala or "Coast" is one of the eight Life_zones_of_Peru#Javier Pulgar Vidal's version, natural regions in Peru. It is formed by all the western lands that arise from sea level up to the height of 500 meters. The coastal desert of Peru is larg ...

and it continued at

Huacho Huacho () is a city in Peru, capital of the Huaura Province and capital of the Lima Region. Also is the most populated city of the Lima Region and Norte Chico civilization, Norte Chico. It is located 223 feet (68 metres) above sea level and 148&nbs ...

. After finishing his high school in the Colegio Emblemático Luis Fabio Xammar Jurado at

, Professor Acuña continued undergraduate studies in Statistics at the

National Agrarian University The National Agrarian University, also formally called National Agrarian University – La Molina (Spanish: ''Universidad Nacional Agraria La Molina'') (UNALM), is a public university in Lima, Peru. Of particular renown in the fields of agricu ...

, UNALM in Lima, Peru, graduate studies in Applied Mathematics at the

PUCP Pontifical Catholic University of Peru (, PUCP) is a private university in Lima, Peru. It was founded in 1917 with the support and approval of the Catholic church, being the oldest private institution of higher learning in the country. The Peru ...

, in Lima, Peru, and doctoral studies in Statistics at the

University of Rochester The University of Rochester is a private university, private research university in Rochester, New York, United States. It was founded in 1850 and moved into its current campus, next to the Genesee River in 1930. With approximately 30,000 full ...

in Rochester, New York.

Honors

In July 2001, Acuña was considered by the Hispanic Engineer & IT magazine as one of the scientists to watch. In July 2003, he was considered by the same magazine among the Hispanic Power Hitters in Technology and Business. In 2009, was selected as Fulbright Scholar to visit Peruvian Universities.

Selected publications

Acuña is the author of "Statistical Analysis using Minitab" (written in Spanish) and published by Wiley and Sons in 2002. He has several publications in data pre-processing for

data mining Data mining is the process of extracting and finding patterns in massive data sets involving methods at the intersection of machine learning, statistics, and database systems. Data mining is an interdisciplinary subfield of computer science and ...

and

machine learning Machine learning (ML) is a field of study in artificial intelligence concerned with the development and study of Computational statistics, statistical algorithms that can learn from data and generalise to unseen data, and thus perform Task ( ...

. In particular, in handling of

missing values In statistics, missing data, or missing values, occur when no data value is stored for the variable in an observation. Missing data are a common occurrence and can have a significant effect on the conclusions that can be drawn from the data. Mi ...

, outlier detection, and

feature selection In machine learning, feature selection is the process of selecting a subset of relevant Feature (machine learning), features (variables, predictors) for use in model construction. Feature selection techniques are used for several reasons: * sim ...

. Acuña along with his research group has developed the dprep library written in the R language. This library contains several R functions to perform data-peprocessing tasks.

References

External links

Edgar Acuña's website
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