AXA Chair in Adversarial Risk Analysis

Adversarial risk analysis focuses on problems with intelligent adversaries willing to increase the threats over a system of interest.

David Ríos Insua is Research Professor in Risk Analysis and Data Science at the Institute of Mathematical Sciences of the Spanish Research Council (ICMAT-CSIC) and member of the Spanish Royal Academy of Sciences.

He was AXA-ICMAT Chair in Adversarial Risk Analysis from 2014 until 2024. 

While holding the AXA Chair he led an international team which pushed forward the boundaries of the foundations, methodology, algorithmics and implementation of adversarial risk analysis.

Applications covered homeland security, cybersecurity and Artificial Intelligence security, including a novel framework for security resource allocation (Including cyber insurance) in systems with AI components and services and a new Bayesian approach to adversarial machine learning.

The team also developed a novel risk analysis framework for aviation safety at state level and a novel risk-based personalized screening strategy for colorectal cancer as well as methods for drug discovery and novel concepts for decision support in automated driving systems.

 

David Rios is Professor of Statistics and Operations Research at Complutense University in Madrid(on leave). He has formerly had visiting research and/or lecturing positions at Duke, Purdue, SAMSI, CNR-IMATI, Aalto University, Université Paris-Dauphine,  IIASA, SAMSI, and the University of Shanghai for Science and Technology and permanent positions at Madrid Technical University, Rey Juan Carlos University. He was scientific director of Aisoy Robotics. He has received national research awards from SEIO (2), UPM, Everis Foundation, FEI and Wirsbo and international research awards from IIASA, INFORMS (Edelman), Society for Risk Analysis, Decision Analysis Society, and ISBA (DeGroot).

His areas of interest include decision analysis, risk analysis, Bayesian statistics, machine learning and negotiation analysis, and their interdisciplinary applications, mainly, to security, social robotics, health, automated driving systems, climate change and cybersecurity. 

In these areas he has published 170 refereed papers, 20 books and has supervised 28PhD thesis. He has been Principal Investigator of over 80 projects totalling more than 15M€

Further information can be seen at https://www.davidriosinsua.es/ and https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=8bOLLGkAAAAJ&hl=es

 

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