Ignacio Cascos Fernández
Professor Ignacio Cascos Fernández
Ignacio Cascos holds a degree (1999) and a PhD (2004) in Mathematics and Statistics from the University of Oviedo. Between 2003 and 2005 he was assistant professor at the Public University of Navarre and in October 2005 he joined the Department of Statistics of the Carlos III University of Madrid, where he is associate professor since December 2009. Between May 2015 and October 2018 he was the academic secretary of the Department of Statistics and since November 2020 he is Deputy Director of Academic Quality and Development at the Higher Polytechnic School.
His main research topic is depth functions and central regions in multivariate analysis, but he is also interested in financial risks, statistical process control, random set theory, stochastic orderings, and stochastic geometry. Currently, he is supervising 2 Doctoral Theses on such topics. He has published 13 papers in JCR journals and 7 book chapters. He has participated in 9 national research projects, 1 European project, and 3 regional ones. In 2006 he received the International Associated for Statistical Computing-ERS Young Researchers Award and since 2008 he is an elected member of the International Statistical Institute. He has enjoyed research stays at the Department of Statistics of the University of Glasgow and the IMSV of the University of Bern.
At undergraduate level, he has taught courses on introductory statistics for engineering students, estimation, regression, and experimental design. At master level, he has taught postgraduate courses in probability and simulation and resampling. He has organized 2 FECYT summer camps on Statistics for highschool students.