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Luis Damiano

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Ph.D. Candidate in Statistics at Iowa State University

This short list excludes in printing and in progress work. A detailed Curriculum Vitae is available here .

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Automatic Dynamic Relevance Determination for Gaussian process regression with high-dimensional functional inputs

Submitted for publication - An article with a general framework for Gaussian process regression with functional inputs based on learning the relevance profile over the index space.

October 2022 - A talk at the NASA JPL Uncertainty Quantification for Remote Sensing Inverse Problems.

  • Slides: to be posted

August 2022 - A talk at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory - ISU workshop.

April 2022 - A talk at the SIAM Conference on Uncertainty Quantification.


Automatic Dynamic Relevance Determination for atmospheric states over vertical pressure grids for the MLS forward

October 2021 - A talk at the NASA JPL Uncertainty Quantification for Remote Sensing Inverse Problems.


The RITAS algorithm: a constructive yield monitor data processing algorithm

December 2020 - An article with a novel data-processing algorithm for irregular, misaligned, and overlapping spatial data recorded by yield monitor.


Emulation of Agricultural Production Systems sIMulator (APSIM)

September 2020 - A joint invited seminar with Jarad Niemi at Los Alamos National Laboratory.


BayesHMM: Full Bayesian Inference for Hidden Markov Models

April 2019 - A poster presented at the 44th Spring Lecture Series, University of Arkansas.


bayesdfa: Bayesian Dynamic Factor Analysis (DFA) with ‘Stan’

September 2018 - An R Package available on CRAN.


BayesHMM: An R Package for Full Bayesian Inference for Hidden Markov Models

August 2018 - Google Summer of Code 2018 project.


Hierarchical Hidden Markov Models in High-Frequency Stock Markets

June 2018 - A full talk at the R/Finance 2018 Conference.


Time Series (Master’s level course)

Abril 2018 - Lab slides for the Master’s level course in Time Series (UNR).


A Tutorial on Hidden Markov Models using Stan

January 2018 - Published in the proceedings of StanCon 2018.


Evaluating Forecast Accuracy of GARCH Volatility Models Applied to Daily Stock Prices in Argentina

October 2017 - Graduate thesis for the Master’s in Applied Statistics program.


Daily Stock Price Forecasts in Argentina Using Hidden Markov Models

October 2017 - A lightning talk at the Inter-American Statistical Conference 2017.


Bayesian Hierarchical Hidden Markov Models Applied to Financial Time Series

August 2017 - Google Summer of Code 2017 project.


A Quick Introduction to Hidden Markov Models Applied to Stock Volatility

May 2017 - A lightning talk at the R/Finance 2017 Conference.

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