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  • 2016 - Fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA)

Overview

Hernando Ombao is affiliated with King Abdullah University of Science and Technology in Saudi Arabia. Their research spans multiple intersecting fields with a predominant focus on neuroscience and statistical methods applied to brain function and dynamics.

Ombao's main field of study is Neuroscience, supported by extensive publications. The prominent subfields of study in their work include Cognitive Neuroscience, Statistics and Probability, Artificial Intelligence, Economics and Econometrics, and Computational Theory and Mathematics.

The research topics covered in their work are diverse but center around brain-related connectivity and statistical analysis. Key topics include:

  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Statistical Methods and Inference
  • EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces
  • Statistical Methods and Bayesian Inference
  • Complex Systems and Time Series Analysis
  • Topological and Geometric Data Analysis

They have published extensively in various venues, with a significant number of articles appearing in:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • The Annals of Applied Statistics
  • Entropy
  • Computational Statistics & Data Analysis
  • Data Science in Science

Examples of recent papers authored or coauthored by Ombao include:

  • "Graph Autoencoders for Embedding Learning in Brain Networks and Major Depressive Disorder Identification" (2024) published in IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics
  • "Regularized matrix data clustering and its application to image analysis" (2020) published in Biometrics
  • "Probabilistic projection of the sex ratio at birth and missing female births by State and Union Territory in India" (2020) published in PLoS ONE
  • "Topological Data Analysis for Multivariate Time Series Data" (2023) published in Entropy
  • "Assessing the age- and gender-dependence of the severity and case fatality rates of COVID-19 disease in Spain" (2020) published in Wellcome Open Research

Frequent collaborators in their research include Chee-Ming Ting, Wagner Barreto-Souza, Moo K. Chung, Fuad Noman, and Norbert J. Fortin.

Ombao's contributions have been recognized with fellowships such as being named a Fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA) in 2016.

Best Publications

  • Acute stress affects heart rate variability during sleep.

    Martica Hall;Raymond Vasko;Daniel Buysse;Hernando Ombao

  • Communicating uncertainty can lead to less decision satisfaction: a necessary cost of involving patients in shared decision making?

    Mary C. Politi;Melissa A. Clark;Hernando Ombao;Don Dizon

  • SLEX Analysis of Multivariate Nonstationary Time Series

    Hernando Ombao;Rainer von Sachs;Wensheng Guo

  • Automatic statistical analysis of bivariate nonstationary time series

    Hernando C Ombao;Jonathan A Raz;Rainer von Sachs;Beth A Malow

  • Penalized least squares regression methods and applications to neuroimaging.

    Florentina Bunea;Yiyuan She;Hernando Ombao;Assawin Gongvatana

  • A Multi-Domain Connectome Convolutional Neural Network for Identifying Schizophrenia From EEG Connectivity Patterns

    Chun-Ren Phang;Fuad Noman;Hadri Hussain;Chee-Ming Ting

  • Detection of Changes in Multivariate Time Series With Application to EEG Data

    Claudia Kirch;Birte Muhsal;Hernando Ombao

  • The SLEX model of a non-stationary random process

    Hernando Ombao;Jonathan Raz;Rainer von Sachs;Wensheng Guo

  • Modeling the Evolution of Dynamic Brain Processes During an Associative Learning Experiment

    Mark Fiecas;Hernando Ombao

  • Discrimination and Classification of Nonstationary Time Series Using the SLEX Model

    Hsiao-Yun Huang;Hernando Ombao;David S Stoffer

  • Quantifying temporal correlations: A test–retest evaluation of functional connectivity in resting-state fMRI

    Mark Fiecas;Hernando Ombao;Dan van Lunen;Richard Baumgartner

  • Patterns of white matter injury in HIV infection after partial immune reconstitution: a DTI tract-based spatial statistics study

    Tong Zhu;Jianhui Zhong;Rui Hu;Madalina Tivarus

  • A simple generalised crossvalidation method of span selection for periodogram smoothing

    Hernando C. Ombao;Jonathan A. Raz;Robert L. Strawderman;Rainer Von Sachs

  • Psychophysiological reactivity and coping styles influence the effects of acute stress exposure on rapid eye movement sleep.

    Anne Germain;Daniel J. Buysse;Hernando Ombao;David J. Kupfer

  • Estimating Time-Evolving Partial Coherence Between Signals via Multivariate Locally Stationary Wavelet Processes

    Timothy Alexander Park;Idris Eckley;Hernando Ombao

  • A robust interrupted time series model for analyzing complex health care intervention data

    Maricela Cruz;Miriam Bender;Hernando Ombao;Hernando Ombao

  • Classification of functional brain images with a spatio-temporal dissimilarity map.

    Svetlana V. Shinkareva;Hernando C. Ombao;Bradley P. Sutton;Aprajita Mohanty

  • Short-segment Heart Sound Classification Using an Ensemble of Deep Convolutional Neural Networks

    Fuad Noman;Chee-Ming Ting;Sh-Hussain Salleh;Hernando Ombao

  • Topological Data Analysis of Single-Trial Electroencephalographic Signals.

    Yuan Wang;Hernando Ombao;Moo K Chung

  • The generalized shrinkage estimator for the analysis of functional connectivity of brain signals

    Mark Fiecas;Hernando Ombao

  • Evolutionary Coherence of Nonstationary Signals

    H. Ombao;S. Van Bellegem

Frequent Co-Authors

Ron D. Frostig
Ron D. Frostig University of California, Irvine
Moo K. Chung
Moo K. Chung University of Wisconsin–Madison
Wesley K. Thompson
Wesley K. Thompson University of California, San Diego
Daniel J. Buysse
Daniel J. Buysse University of Pittsburgh
Martin A. Lindquist
Martin A. Lindquist Johns Hopkins University
David J. Kupfer
David J. Kupfer University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Moon-Ho Ringo Ho
Moon-Ho Ringo Ho Nanyang Technological University
Jerome N. Sanes
Jerome N. Sanes Brown University
Gui Xue
Gui Xue Beijing Normal University
Chuansheng Chen
Chuansheng Chen University of California, Irvine

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