Chair of Spatial Data Science and Statistical Learning

Dr. Joaquin Cavieres

Scientific career

I am a postdoctoral researcher in the "Chair of Spatial Data Science and Statistical Learning" led by Professor Elisabeth Bergherr at Georg-August-Universität Göttingen. Previously, I was a postdoctoral researcher in the "Chair of Geoinformatics-Big Spatial Data" working with Professor Meng Lu at Bayreuth University.

My Ph.D thesis was supervised by Javier Contreras Reyes and Michael Karkulik, proposing different computational methods to incorporate a smoothing thin plate spline in spatial models.

During my Ph.D studies I did two very interesting internships; the first one in the Probabilistic Machine Learning group at Aalto University, under the supervision of Aki Vehtari. The second one was in the Computer, Electrical, and Mathematical Sciences and Engineering Division at KAUST, under the supervision of Paula Moraga.


Research interests

  • Bayesian Inference
  • Spatial / Spatio-Temporal Modelling
  • Computional Statistics
  • Numerical Methods