On the morning of May 15th, the 3rd session of 2024 (the 73rd session in total) of the Expert Forum was held in conference room 517 of our institute. Professor David Rios Insua, academician of the Royal Spanish Academy of Sciences, was invited to deliver a special report titled "Mathematics Promoting Social Progress - Knowledge Transfer of Mathematics at ICMAT". Chen Haipeng, the vice director (Presiding) of SISS and Wu Shouren, the director of the Academic Committee, attended the meeting. The report was hosted by Chen Haipeng.
At the meeting, based on his long-term work experience and academic research, David focused on intelligent decision-making, Bayesian statistics, risk analysis, and machine learning, and shared his profound thoughts and unique insights. During the Q&A session, David had in-depth discussions with the scientific researchers of our institute on important topics such as AI governance, AI for Science, technological risk decision-making, and basic research.
David Rios Insua serves as the Director of the Institute of Mathematical Sciences (ICMAT) of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) and concurrently holds the position of the AXA-ICMAT Chair in Adversarial Risk Analysis. Additionally, he is a professor of statistics and operations research at the Complutense University of Madrid. He has also served as a visiting researcher and instructor at numerous universities and research institutions, including Duke University, Purdue University, Aalto University, Université Paris-Dauphine, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Leeds University, and University of Shanghai for Science and Technology. Professor David's research work focuses on decision analysis, negotiation analysis, Bayesian statistics, risk analysis, and adversarial machine learning. He has received several honors and awards, including the Best Book Award from the Decision Analysis Society of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), the FEI Innovation Researcher Award, and the DeGroot Prize for his outstanding research achievements in adversarial risk analysis.