I am Assistant Professor of Statistics in the Department of Quantitative Methods at Universidad de la República in Montevideo, Uruguay (UDELAR-IESTA). I earned my Ph.D. in Statistics from Iowa State University, under the supervision of Di Cook and Heike Hofmann with guidance from Eun-Kyung Lee, who was a visiting professor at Iowa State at that time. My research interests include supervised learning methods, statistical graphics, computational statistics, exploratory data analysis, reproducible research, and meta-analysis.
I have served as an Associate Editor for Reproducibility at the Journal of the American Statistical Association since 2022 JASA. You can check the JASA Reproducibility Guide. I’m editor of the new ISI Magazine vISIon, in charge of the statistical software articles. You can check the first issue here vISIon. Also, I’m new editor in RopneSci for statistical software since 2026 news.
I co-founded the Latinamerican Conference About the Use of R in R&D, LatinR, in 2018 and have been serving as co-chair of the event since then. Additionally, I co-founded R-Ladies Montevideo RLadies_MVD meetup and The R User Group in Montevideo, known as GURU GURUG meetup. Most of the courses I teach involve coding in R at various levels. If you want to know more about the R community across Latin America, check R Fordwards post. During my Ph.D. at ISU, I also co-founded R-Ladies-Ames
Interests
Statistical Learning
Statistical graphics
Computational Statistics
Exploratory data analysis
Reproducible research
Meta-analysis