Hugo Maruri-Aguilar

Hugo Maruri is a Research Officer for the MUCM project, working at LSE under direction of Professor Henry Wynn.

He studied for his PhD in the University of Warwick under the supervision of Eva Riccomagno. His research area is Design of Experiments, and in his thesis he used computer algebra to address a direct and a multiple inverse problem on design.

As part of the MUCM project, his research focuses on the identifiability of kernels for different types of designs. He also studies the generation of space-filling designs. Other non-MUCM academic interests are likelihood-based inference and reliability.

Hugo worked previously as an academic technician at CIMAT in Guanajuato, Mexico for two and a half years (2001-2003). He has worked as a part-time lecturer in several institutions, such as ITQ (Technological Institute of Queretaro), ITL (Technological Institute of Leon), UIA (Iberoamerican University). He also worked for three years (1994-1997) as a specialist in hydraulics at the National Water Agency (CNA), also in Mexico.

He holds a B.Sc. in Electronics (ITQ, 1993); and two M.Sc. degrees, one in Quality Engineering (UIA, 2001) and the other in Statistics (UGTO, 2002).

Refereed papers in journals

[1] Lee, J., Maruri-Aguilar, H., Onn, S., Riccomagno, E., Weismantel, R., Wynn, H. (2008). Nonlinear matroid optimization and experimental design. SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics 22(3), 901-919.
[2] Maruri-Aguilar, H., Notari, R., Riccomagno, E. (2007). On the description and identifiability análisis of mixture designs. Statistica Sinica 17, 1417-1440.
[3] Maruri-Aguilar, H. (2006). Universal Gröbner bases for designs of experiments. Rend. Istit. Mat. Univ. Trieste, 37(1-2): 95-119.
[4] Salcedo-Chávez, B., Osuna-Castro, J., Guevara-Lara, F., Valverde, M. E., Maruri-Aguilar, H., Domínguez-Domínguez, J. and Paredes-López, O. Study of the effect of the concentration of NaCl and pH on the physicohemical and functional properties in protein isolates of amaranth (Amaranthus cruentus). Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry (submitted).

Refereed conference proceedings

[5] Maruri-Aguilar, H., Riccomagno, E. (2007). A note on mixture experiments including process variables. mODa 7---Advances in model-oriented design and analysis. Contributions to Statistics, 107-114.
[6] Maruri-Aguilar, H., Vazquez-Montes, M. (2007) Statistics: a starting point (in Spanish). In Proceedings of the IV Symposium of Otopames, Mexico.

Invited papers

[7] Maruri-Aguilar, H., Wynn, H. (2008). Generalised designs. Fetschrift for Gianni Pistone, forthcoming.
[8] Maruri-Aguilar, H., Wynn, H. (2007). Smooth interpolation. Oberwolfach report 50/2007: Reassessing the paradigms of statistical model-building., 3004-3007.
[9] Pistone, G., Riccomagno, E., Rogantin, M.P. (2008). Algebraic statistics methods in DOE (with a contribution by Maruri-Aguilar, H.) In Zhigljavsky, A. and Pronzato, L. (eds.), Algebra and geometry in statistics and design (forthcoming).  

Research reports

[10] Maruri-Aguilar, H., Wynn, H. (2008). Kernels and designs. MUCM internal report 3.1.4.
[11] Bates, R.A., Maruri-Aguilar, H., Wynn, H. (2008). Smooth supersaturated models. MUCM technical report 08/01.
[12] Berstein, Y., Maruri-Aguilar, H., Onn, S., Riccomagno, E., Wynn, H. (2007). Minimal average degree aberration and the state polytope for experimental designs. MUCM technical report 07/07.
[13] Fenlon, J.S., Maruri-Aguilar, H., Riccomagno, E. (2005). Algebraic identifiability for fractional polynomial models. Research report 444, Department of Statistics, University of Warwick.

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