Enrique Del Castillo

Enrique del Castillo is a Distinguished professor of Engineering at Penn State University. He holds degrees in Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Operations Research and Industrial Engineering and Statistics. His research interests are in Statistics and Machine Learning, with special emphasis in the modeling, control and optimization of engineering and science systems that generate complex (and not only "big") data structures (e.g., functional, surface/spatial, shape, and point cloud data), either through experiments or simple observation. He is a past recipient of a National Science Foundation CAREER Award, past editor-in-chief of the Journal of Quality Technology, and twice a Fulbright Scholar. Dr. del Castillo is author of over 100 refereed journal papers, two textbooks and co-edited two other books. His work has been funded mainly by the NSF, but also by the Fulbright foundation, NATO, and private industry. At Penn State University, he is currently director of the Engineering Statistics and Machine Learning Laboratory and has a joint appointment in the Department of Statistics. A former professional footballer (i.e., soccer player) in Mexico, having played with first division Club Necaxa and Mexico's U17 national team in the early 80's, he lives in State College, PA with his family.