Tomas Capretto
Statistician from the National University of Rosario, Argentina, works at PyMC Labs, where he uses Bayesian models to solve applied problems in various sectors. Tomas is also a professor in the Statistics Degree at the National University of Rosario and collaborates on open-source projects such as PyMC, ArviZ, and Bambi.
Camila Neder
PhD in Biological Sciences specializing in Marine Ecology from the National University of Córdoba. She researches Antarctic benthos and its response to climate change (CONICET-IDEA), with multiple publications and international scholarships. She has participated in Antarctic expeditions and is skilled in spatial analysis and scientific communication in various languages.
Leila Asplanato
Physics graduate from the University of Buenos Aires, she conducted a thesis on "Causal inference in observational studies using Bayesian models (applied to student dropout)". She is currently pursuing a Ph.D. at the National University of San Martín on "Machine learning models and causal inference in support of education and lifelong learning".
Enrique ter Horst
Ph.D. in Statistics and Decision Sciences from Duke University, Enrique has worked at Morgan Stanley, Credit Suisse, and management institutes in various countries. He is currently a Professor at the University of the Andes, Colombia, specializing in business statistics and risk management with a focus on Bayesian methods applied to finance.
Juan Bekios Calfa
Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence from the Polytechnic University of Madrid and Licenciate in Civil Engineering in Computing and Informatics from the Catholic University of the North. He is an assistant professor at the Catholic University of the North since 1997 and has received awards such as the Shell Chile Scholarship and the Academic Excellence Award.
Gabriel Alzamendi
Ph.D. in Engineering and Bioengineer, he is an assistant researcher at the Institute of Bioengineering and Bioinformatics Research (CONICET-UNER) and a lecturer at the Faculty of Engineering of the National University of Entre Ríos. His work focuses on modeling biomedical signals from phonation, with multiple scientific publications.
Macarena Piaggio
Licenciate's degree in Computer Science with a thesis on "Approximation of inference in SVD recommendation systems using Variational Message Passing". Head of Practical Works at the University of Buenos Aires. Former fellow at the Institute of Computer Science and the National Institute of Informatics in Japan.
Daniel Fortuna
Licenciate's degree in Economics from the University of Buenos Aires (UBA) and MBA from the Kuepa University (UK) in Mexico. Director of Studies at the Private Institute of the Argentine Chamber of Commerce. Professor of Statistics for Administrators at the Faculty of Economic Sciences of UBA, content creator and teacher in the finance area at UK.
Francisco Ortega Culaciati
Civil Engineer and Ph.D. in Geophysics, currently a professor at the University of Chile, specializing in active tectonics, geodesy, and earthquake modeling. He has led various research projects and published numerous scientific contributions in the field of seismic deformation and fault slip estimation.
Oxana Krymina
Head of Actuarial Data Science at VSK insurance company, Oxana uses Bayesian statistics for loss reserves. She has held positions as a data scientist at the Financial Consulting Laboratory of MIPT. Oxana earned her master's degree in mathematics from Moscow State University in 1997 and currently resides in Uruguay.
Josefina Lacasa
Assistant Professor in the Department of Statistics at Kansas State University and Ph.D. in Agronomy and Master of Statistics from the same institution. Her research focuses on crop nutrition diagnostic models, and she received the Nelson Yield-Limiting Factors Award from the American Society of Agronomy in 2023.
Sergio Davis
Physicist from the University of Santiago and Ph.D. in Physics from the Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden, worked at the University of Chile. He is currently a Researcher at the Chilean Nuclear Energy Commission and a Professor at Andrés Bello University publishing nearly 100 scientific articles on Statistical Physics, Information Theory, among others.
Rafael Tovar
Statistician Universidad del Valle, Colombia, Master in Statistics Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, PhD in Statistics Universidad Estatal de Campinas Brazil and postdoc Universidad de Sao Paulo, Brazil. Bayesian Inference and Applied Statistics. Professor at the School of Statistics, Universidad del Valle, Cali, Colombia.
Yasmín Navarrete
Licenciate's and Master's degrees in Physical Sciences from the University of Chile, currently working at the Institute of Philosophy and Complexity Sciences of the Chilean Atomic Energy Commission. With 10 years of teaching and research experience in physics applied to neuroscience and quantum mechanics, Yasmín is dedicated to scientific outreach.
Andrea Goijman
PhD in Wildlife Ecology and Management, University of Georgia, USA, licentiate in Biological Sciences, University of Buenos Aires. She works at the Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria, Argentina, evaluating socio-ecological systems with Bayesian and frequentist tools for biodiversity conservation.
Llerzy Torres Ome
Graduate in Applied Mathematics from Surcolombiana University, Master in Statistics, currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Mathematical Sciences at the University of Valle. University professor in mathematics and statistics, his work focuses on prior probability distributions and copula functions.
Fernando Momo
Licenciate's and Ph.D. in Biological Sciences from the University of Buenos Aires, specialized in Mathematical Ecology and Theoretical Ecology, has published over 80 scientific papers and books on ecology and complex systems. He chaired the Argentine Association of Ecology and the Latin American Society of Biomathematics. He is currently Professor Emeritus at the National University of Luján.
Gustavo Landfried
Licenciate's in Social Anthropology and Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Buenos Aires, Gustavo is currently a researcher and graduate teaching assistant in the Department of Computer Science. His work focuses on the application of Bayesian methods in fields such as health, sports, and education. Co-founder of Bayes Plurinational.