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Eduardo
García
Portugués
PhD in Statistics and
Operations Research
Department of Mathematical Sciences and
Bioinformatics Centre (Department of Biology)
University of Copenhagen
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Last updated on 2nd April, 2015
Personal information
Born January 3rd, 1987 at León (Spain)
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Education
2011–2014 PhD in Statistics and Operations Research.
PhD thesis “Nonparametric inference with directional and linear data”, supervised by professors
Wenceslao González-Manteiga and Rosa M. Crujeiras. Grade: Sobresaliente cum laude (maximum).
University of Santiago de Compostela.
2010–2012 MSc in Statistical Techniques.
MSc thesis with grade Matrícula de Honor (maximum). University of Santiago de Compostela.
2005–2010 BSc in Mathematics, major in Statistics and Operations Research.
Dissertation with grade Sobresaliente (maximum). University of Santiago de Compostela.
Honors and awards
2013 Best paper by a young researcher, given by the Galician Society for the Promotion of
Statistics and Operations Research (SGAPEIO) and the Barrié Foundation.
2012 Extraordinary award in the MSc in Statistical Techniques (top of my year), given by the
University of Santiago de Compostela.
2010 Extraordinary award in the BSc in Mathematics (top of my year), given by the University
of Santiago de Compostela.
Positions and grants
2015–present Postdoctoral researcher within the “Dynamical Systems Interdisciplinary Network”,
funded by the University of Copenhagen’s Excellence Programme for Interdisciplinary Research.
2012–2014 Predoctoral FPU (University Professors Formation) grant, given by the Spanish Ministry
for Education and Science.
2014–2014 Grant for predoctoral research stay, given by the Spanish Ministry for Education and
Science.
2013–2013 Grant for predoctoral research stay, given by the Barrié Foundation.
2011–2011 Grant for master studies, given by the Galician Ministry for Education.
2011–2011 Predoctoral researcher within the project “Nonparametric inference models for environmental indicators”, funded by the Galician Government (public competitive contract).
2009–2010 Grant for student department collaboration, given by the Spanish Ministry for Education
and Science.
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Research stays
2014 Department of Statistics and Operations Research, University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill (USA), visiting PhD student under the supervision of Professor James Stephen
Marron.
From 08/09/14 to 22/11/14.
2014 Institute of Statistics, Biostatistics and Actuarial Sciences. Catholic University of
Louvain (Belgium), visiting researcher.
From 22/05/14 to 25/05/14.
2013 Institute of Statistics, Biostatistics and Actuarial Sciences. Catholic University of
Louvain (Belgium), visiting PhD student under the supervision of Professor Ingrid Van
Keilegom.
From 01/09/13 to 15/12/13.
2012 Department of Mathematics. University of Cantabria (Spain), visiting researcher.
From 11/11/12 to 15/11/12.
Publications
Articles
García-Portugués, E., Crujeiras, R., and González-Manteiga, W. (2014). Central limit theorems
for directional and linear data with applications. Statist. Sinica, to appear.
García-Portugués, E., González-Manteiga, W., and Febrero-Bande, M. (2014). A goodnessof-fit test for the functional linear model with scalar response. J. Comput. Graph. Stat.,
23(3):761–778.
García-Portugués, E., Barros, A., Crujeiras, R., González-Manteiga, W., and Pereira, J. (2014).
A test for directional-linear independence, with applications to wildfire orientation and size.
Stoch. Environ. Res. Risk Assess., 28(5):1261–1275.
García-Portugués, E. (2013). Exact risk improvement of bandwidth selectors for kernel density
estimation with directional data. Electron. J. Stat., 7:1655–1685.
García-Portugués, E., Crujeiras, R., and González-Manteiga, W. (2013). Exploring wind
direction and SO2 concentration by circular-linear density estimation. Stoch. Environ. Res.
Risk Assess., 27(5):1055–1067.
García-Portugués, E., Crujeiras, R., and González-Manteiga, W. (2013).
estimation for directional-linear data. J. Multivariate Anal., 121:152–175.
Kernel density
Working papers
García-Portugués, E., Van Keilegom, I., Crujeiras, R., and González-Manteiga, W. (2014).
Testing parametric models in linear-directional regression. arXiv:1409.0506.
González-Manteiga, W., González-Rodríguez, G., Martínez-Calvo, A., and García-Portugués,
E. (2012). Bootstrap independence test for functional linear models. arXiv:1210.1072.
García-Portugués, E., Van Keilegom, I., Crujeiras, R., and González-Manteiga, W. Bandwidth
selection in nonparametric linear-directional regression.
Cuesta-Albertos, J. A., González-Manteiga, W., García-Portugués, E., and Febrero-Bande, M.
Testing the functional linear model by random projection based empirical processes.
Editorial activity
Albella-Martínez, J., Búa-Devesa, L., Fernández-Tojo, A., and García-Portugués, E., editors
(2014). As matemáticas do veciño. Actas do Seminario de Iniciación á Investigación, Vol. 10.
Instituto de Matemáticas. Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, D.L. C 1971-2014.
Albella-Martínez, J., Búa-Devesa, L., Fernández-Tojo, A., and García-Portugués, E., editors
(2013). As matemáticas do veciño. Actas do Seminario de Iniciación á Investigación, Vol. 9.
Instituto de Matemáticas. Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, D.L. C 2352-2013.
Búa-Devesa, L., Fernández-Tojo, A., García-Portugués, E., and Gómez-González, A., editors
(2012). As matemáticas do veciño. Actas do Seminario de Iniciación á Investigación, Vol. 8.
Instituto de Matemáticas. Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, D.L. C 452-2013.
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Conferences
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Invited talks
2014 García-Portugués, E., Crujeiras, R.M., Van Keilegom, I. and González-Manteiga, W. “Bandwidth selection in nonparametric directional regression”. 7th International Conference of the
European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics Working Group on Computing
& Statistics. Pisa (Italy), 6–8th December.
García-Portugués, E., Ley, C., Paindaveine, D. and Verdebout, T. “Improved kernel density
estimation for directional data under rotational symmetry”. 7th International Conference
of the European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics Working Group on
Computing & Statistics. Pisa (Italy), 6–8th December.
Cuesta-Albertos, García-Portugués, E., González-Manteiga, W. and Febrero-Bande, M. “Random projection based goodness-of-fit test for the functional linear model with scalar response”.
7th International Conference of the European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics Working Group on Computing & Statistics. Pisa (Italy), 6–8th December.
Crujeiras, R. M., García-Portugués, E. and González-Manteiga, W. “Directional-linear nonparametric regression for wildfire analysis”. VII International Workshop on Spatio-Temporal
Modelling. Torino (Italy), 12–14th September.
García-Portugués, E., Van Keilegom, I., Crujeiras, R. M. and González-Manteiga, W. “Assessing
parametric regression models with directional predictors”. International workshop on Advances
in Directional Statistics. Brussels (Belgium), 20–22nd May.
2013 González-Manteiga, W., Cuesta-Albertos, J., Febrero-Bande, M. and García-Portugués, E.
“Goodness-of-fit tests for regression models: the functional data case”. Congreso de la RSME
2013. Santiago de Compostela (Spain), 21–25th January.
2012 Crujeiras, R. M., García-Portugués, E. and González-Manteiga, W. “Exploring wildfires behavior
by nonparametric methods”. International Conference on Advances in Interdisciplinary Statistics
and Combinatorics. Greensboro (USA), 5–7th October.
González-Manteiga, W., García-Portugués, E. and Crujeiras, R. M. “A nonparametric independence test for directional-linear data”. VI International Workshop on Spatio-Temporal
Modelling. Guimãres (Portugal), 12–14th September.
García-Portugués, E., Crujeiras, R. M. and González-Manteiga, W. “Nonparametric inference
for directional-linear data”. 1st Conference of the International Society for NonParametric
Statistics. Chalkidiki (Greece), 15–19th June.
García-Portugués, E., González-Manteiga, W. and Febrero-Bande, M. “A goodness-of-fit for
the functional linear model”. 1st Conference of the International Society for NonParametric
Statistics. Chalkidiki (Greece), 15–19th June.
Contributed talks
2014 García-Portugués, E., Van Keilegom, I., Crujeiras, R. M. and González-Manteiga, W. “A
goodness-of-fit test for parametric models with directional predictors”. 2nd Conference of the
International Society for NonParametric Statistics. Cádiz (Spain), 12–16th June.
2013 García-Portugués, E., Crujeiras, R.M. and González-Manteiga, W. “Central limit theorems for
directional and linear data with applications”. 6th International Conference of the European
Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics Working Group on Computing &
Statistics. London (United Kingdom), 14–16th December.
García-Portugués, E., Crujeiras, R. M. and González-Manteiga, W. “Goodness-of-fit tests for
directional and linear data”. XI Congreso Galego de Estatística e Investigación de Operacións.
A Coruña (Spain), 24–26th October.
García-Portugués, E. “Semiparametric bandwidth selection in kernel density estimation with
directional data”. Applicable Semiparametrics Conference. Berlin (Germany), 11–12th October.
2012 García-Portugués, E., Crujeiras, R.M. and González-Manteiga, W. “Bandwidth selection for
directional densities”. 5th International Conference of the European Research Consortium for
Informatics and Mathematics Working Group on Computing & Statistics. Oviedo (Spain),
1–3rd December.
García-Portugués, E., Crujeiras, R. M. and González-Manteiga, W. “Directional-linear kernel
density estimator”. XXXIII Congreso Nacional de Estadística e Investigación Operativa. Madrid
(Spain), 17–20th April.
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2011 García-Portugués, E., Crujeiras, R. M. and González-Manteiga, W. “An algorithm for estimating
circular-linear densities”. X Congreso Galego de Estatística e Investigación de Operacións.
Pontevedra (Spain), 3–5th November.
Seminars and courses
Seminars
2014 “Local linear regression and goodness-of-fit tests with directional predictor”. Department of
Statistics and Operations Research, University of Santiago de Compostela.
2013 “Smoothing-based tests for directional and linear data”. Institute of Statistics, Biostatistics
and Actuarial Sciences, Catholic University of Louvain.
“¿Cómo contrastar la independencia estadística?” Seminario de Iniciación a la Investigación
2013, Institute of Mathematics, University of Santiago de Compostela.
2012 “Estimación tipo núcleo de densidades direccional-lineales”. Seminario de Iniciación a la
Investigación 2012, Institute of Mathematics, University of Santiago de Compostela.
2011 “Aplicaciones de las Funciones Cópula en Estadística”. Seminario de Iniciación a la Investigación
2011, Institute of Mathematics, University of Santiago de Compostela.
“Exploring wind direction and SO2 concentration by circular-linear density estimation”. Department of Statistics and Operations Research, University of Santiago de Compostela.
Courses
2012 “Course on Copula functions and its applications in Statistics”. Given at the Department of
Statistics and Operations Research, University of Santiago de Compostela. Duration: 16
hours.
“Curso de Estadística”. Given at the cooperative association AGACA jointly with other two
professors. Duration: 20 hours.
Refereeing
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Brazilian Journal of Probability and Statistics (1)
Computational Statistics (2)
Journal of Nonparametric Statistics (2)
Statistica Sinica (1)
Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment (2)
Developed software
{ Collaborator in the R packages fda.usc (cran.r-project.org/web/packages/fda.usc)
and circular (cran.r-project.org/web/packages/circular).
{ Creator of the LATEX beamer’s theme picsec (github.com/edugp/picsec).
Teaching experience
2013/2014 Labs in Estadística (Spanish) and Statistics (English) in the BSc in Computer Science (60
hours).
Languages
Spanish Native.
Galician Native, CELGA 4 certificate (level C1 in the CEFR).
English Good, FCE certificate, Grade B (level B2 in the CEFR).
Computer skills
Interpreted R, Mathematica, MATLAB, Bash,
languages Batch, HTML.
Compiled FORTRAN, TEX, C (in MPI and
languages OpenMP).
Specific Adobe Acrobat Pro, Notepad++, Sublime Text 2, TeXstudio, RStudio, JabRef, GeoGebra,
software TeXnicCenter, SPSS, Rmpi, MPICH2, GitHub.
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