Edgar Acuña

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Edgar Acuña (born February 26, 1956) is a Peruvian-born professor of statistics, data mining, and machine learning at the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez (UPRM). He was born in Chincha Alta, Peru, and studied in Chala and Huacho. He earned his undergraduate degree in Statistics from UNALM in Lima, studied Applied Mathematics at PUCP, and obtained a PhD in Statistics from the University of Rochester in New York.

In 2001, Hispanic Engineer & IT magazine named him one of the scientists to watch, and in 2003 he was listed among the Hispanic Power Hitters in Technology and Business. He was a Fulbright Scholar in 2009, visiting Peruvian universities. He wrote Statistical Analysis using Minitab (in Spanish), published by Wiley in 2002. His research focuses on data preprocessing for data mining and machine learning, including handling missing values, outlier detection, and feature selection. With his research group, he developed the dprep library in R to help with data preprocessing tasks.