Alejandro Jara

I’m pleased to share that I am standing for election to the @Int_Statistical Board of Directors (2026). If you are an ISI member, I would be grateful for your vote and support. Let’s continue strengthening our statistical community together isi-web.org/sites/default/…

At Bocconi University (Milano, Italy) we have an open tenure-track position at the Assistant Professor level in Statistics. If interested, you can apply at jobmarket.unibocconi.eu Application deadline: 15th of December, 23:59 (CET).

Just wrapped up a productive week at the School of Science and Technology at @IEuniversity in Madrid, working with my coauthor and friend @ Andrea Cremaschi. Visiting IE and meeting people there was inspiring, and their offices are stunning!

My department is hiring 2 associate professors @SapienzaRoma! One in Stats and one in Maths for Finance🧮Details (in Italian) can be found on web.uniroma1.it/trasparenza/de… and the application deadline 24/10. I'm attaching some carefully thought reasons to apply.

Parque nacional Torres del Paine, Patagonia, hoy día, 7.45am. Que más pedir para ser feliz? Majestuosa naturaleza. 🏔️#Chile 🇨🇱

NeurIPS is now a computer vision conference, it seems. Time to bust it up, because I'm not interested in any of that work, and the top 10 authors are all getting 18+ papers in in areas I don't care about.

Very proud to have been elected a Fellow of the International Society for Bayesian Analysis @ISBA_events

👏👨‍🏫Como muestra de su trayectoria excepcional en la academia, nos complace comunicar que, como facultad, nominamos al Dr. Alejandro Toro-Labbé, profesor titular UC y nuestro exdecano, al Premio Nacional de Ciencias Naturales de Chile 2024. 🔗Conoce más: lnkd.in/eN92BF6S

I am both grateful and humbled to receive this recognition. Being selected as an ISBA fellow is among the highest honors of my career, and it was all made possible thanks to my family, friends, students, and colleagues in Chile and around the world. @ucatolica @facultadmat_uc

Bayes at the Lido Beach #ISBA2024

We are in the midst of an AI revolution, as these technologies are experiencing a meteoric rise driven by computational, hardware, and algorithmic advances and in the next 5-10 years will transform many aspects of modern life. Some mistakenly think the emergence of AI makes traditional analytic fields like statistics, epidemiology, and bioinformatics obsolete, but this is not the case. This feature hits on a few of the key ways statistical thinking is needed in the AI realm to ensure its effective use.

#OTD 1937 Jerzy Neyman (1894-1981) introduces the confidence interval in a talk given at the RSS @RoyalStatSoc (the paper was published 30 Aug 1937). Listeners were not enthusiastic 1/2

I have an open postdoc position at Bocconi on theory for scalable statistical methods. Application deadline is the 8th of July. jobmarket.unibocconi.eu/?type=a (ID 604)

¡VAMOS ANTO! 😊😊 La tenista Antonia Vergara 🇨🇱 (16ª del mundo en juveniles) se estrena en unas horas (aprox. 11:00) en el cuadro junior de Roland Garros 🇫🇷. La “Pequeña Gigante” enfrentará a Vendula Valdmannova 🇨🇿 (41ª) en la primera ronda. Transmite 📺: Star+. #VamosTeamChile 🇨🇱

Check out this article about @uofscstatistics professor and incoming chair Dr. Edsel Pena! This year, Dr. Pena became one of the first Philippine-born @InstMathStat Fellows! We truly admire all his hard work, perseverence, and service to the profession! sc.edu/study/colleges…

New article: "On dependent Dirichlet processes for general Polish spaces" jointly with A.Iturriaga and C.Sing Long. We provide conditions for DDP models to have appealing continuity, association structure, and support properties on Polish spaces. encr.pw/z82fh

4/Refs Butzer P, Jongmans F 1999. Journal of Approximation Theory 96, 111-138 Walking machine. youtube.com/watch?v=ISfVS4… His machines: en.tcheb.ru P E Tovstik et al 2021 J Phys: Conf Ser 1959:012050

3/ In 1893 he exhibited 7 mechanical inventions at the Chicago World's Fair including “a special bicycle for women”. His invention of the Chebyshev Linkage has been resurrected as a new rear suspension design for mountain bikes

2/ He also made important contributions to probability, orthogonal polynomials, generalisation of the beta function, number theory & mechanics

OTD 1821 Pafnuty Chebyshev b (d 8 Dec 1894) 🇷🇺Founding father of Russian mathematics. Kolmogorov said he was first to think systematically in terms of random variables, moments & expectations. Best known for Chebyshev inequality 1/4