W O R K A D D R E S S :

Belén Martín Barragán

Dpto. Estadística e Investigación Operativa
Fac. Matemáticas. Universidad de Sevilla
Avda. Reina Mercedes s/n
41012 Sevilla (SPAIN)

Phone number: +34 954 556 173

Fax number: +34 954 622 800
Email: belmart@us.es

Education.

Degree: M.Sc. in Mathematics.

University: Universidad de Sevilla.
Year of graduation: 2000.
Specialization : Statistics and Operations Research.
Title of the Master’s thesis :
Análisis discriminante. Métodos basados en la Programación Matemática.
(Discriminant Analysis. Mathematical Programming based methods.)
Supervisor : dr. Emilio Carrizosa Priego and Dolores Romero Morales.

Working experience.

• PhD student granted by Andalusia Regional Government, January 2003 –

present.

• Assistant Professor in Biostatistics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Sevilla,

Sevilla, Spain, January 2002 – December 2002 .

• Assistant Professor in Biostatistics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Sevilla,

Sevilla, Spain, December 2000 – September 2001.

Teaching experience.

• Probability. B.Sc. in Statistics. Universidad de Sevilla.

• Data Mining. Expert in Pharmaceutical Security: Drug Monitoring and Post-
Authorization Studies. Universidad de Sevilla. (on-line training)
• Questionnaire Design and Validation. Expert in Pharmaceutical Security: Drug
Monitoring and Post-Authorization Studies. Universidad de Sevilla. (on-line
course)
• Data Mining. Expert in Pharmaceutical Security: Drug Monitoring and Post-
Authorization Studies. Universidad de Sevilla. (on-site training)
• Statistics and Sampling Techniques. B.Sc. in Labor Relations. Universidad de
Sevilla
• Advanced Biostatistics. M.Sc. in Medicine. Universidad de Sevilla.
• Biostatistics. M.Sc. in Medicine. Universidad de Sevilla.
• Biostatistics. B.Sc. in Phisiotherapy. Universidad de Sevilla.
• Biostatistics. M.Sc. in Odontology. Universidad de Sevilla.
Publications.

• E. Carrizosa, B. Martín-Barragán, F. Plastria and D. Romero Morales, On the

selection of the globally optimal prototype subset for NN classification.
Accepted for publication INFORMS Journal on Computing.

• E. Carrizosa and B. Martín-Barragán, Two-group classification via a biobjective

margin maximization model. European Journal of Operational Research,
special issue on Optimization and Data Mining. In press.

• E. Carrizosa and B. Martín-Barragán, Problemas de clasificación: una mirada

desde la localización. In Avances en Localización de Servicios y sus
Aplicaciones. ISBN: 84-8371-495-7

• Emilio Carrizosa Priego, Belen Martin Barragan and Maria Dolores Romero
Morales, A biobjective model to select features with good classification quality
and low cost. Proceedings of the Fourth IEEE ICML. Brighton, UK. IEEE
Publications. 2004. Pag. 339-342. ISBN: 0-7695-2142-8

• E. Carrizosa and B. Martín-Barragán, Máquinas de vector de apoyo:

problemas de programación matemática en clasificación. Boletín de la
Sociedad de Estadística e Investigación Operativa, 2:21, 15-21, 2005.

Working papers.

• E. Carrizosa, B. Martín-Barragán and D. Romero Morales, Column generation

for feature selection in the classification problem.

• E. Carrizosa, B. Martín-Barragán and D. Romero Morales, Minimum-cost

feature selection for classification: A biobjective model. (submitted to Discrete
Applied Mathematics).

• E. Carrizosa, B. Martín-Barragán, F. Plastria and D. Romero Morales, A

dissimilarity-based approach for classification. METEOR Research
Memorandum RM/02/027.

Presentations.

• Mathematical Programming for Supervised Classification. Invited seminar at

University of Nottingham, January 2006.

• Classification with Support Vector Machines using Column Generation. OR47

Annual Conference, Chester, UK, September 2005.

• A biobjective model to select features with good classification quality and low
cost. The Fourth IEEE International Conference on Data Mining, Brighton, UK,
November 2004.

• Simultaneous maximization of the margins in both classes in a two-classes

classification probem. XXVIII Congreso Nacional de Estadística e Investigación
Operativa, Cádiz, October 2004.
 • Two-group classification via a biobjective margin maximization problem. XXII
EURO Summer Institute (XXII ESI), Ankara, Turkey, July 2004.

• Métodos de clasificación para la toma de decisiones. Reunión de la Red

Multicriterio, Málaga, Spain, April 2004.

• Classification: A Biobjective Approach, INFORMS Annual Meeting 2003,

Atlanta, USA, October 2003.

• A biobjective model for classification, JIM’2003, Metz, France, September

2003.

• Un Nuevo Método de Clasificación Basado en Prototipos. XXVII Congreso

Nacional de Estadística e Investigación Operativa, Lleida, Spain, April 2003.

• Selección de Características a Mínimo Coste Para Problemas de Clasificación

No Paramétrica. XXVII Congreso Nacional de Estadística e Investigación
Operativa, Lleida, Spain, April 2003.

• A New Mathematical-Programming Model for Nonparametric Discriminant

Analysis. CMMSE 2002, Alicante, Spain, September 2002.

• Discriminant Análisis and Mathematical Programming. Operations Research

Colloquia, Maastricht, The Netherlands, March 2002.

• Análisis Discriminante Paramétrico y No Paramétrico. Un caso práctico, IV

Congreso Nacional de Estudiantes de Estadística, Elche, Spain, September
2001.

Visiting researcher.

• July-September,2005 Three months visiting the Säid Business School, Oxford

University, UK.

• May-2004.- One week collaborating with the doctor Romero Morales at the
Saïd Business School, University of Oxford, UK.

• March-2003.- One month collaborating in the research project ‘Optimization

Models for Data Mining’, at the Department of Quantitative Economics, Faculty
of Economics and Business Administration, Maastricht University, The
Netherlands.

• March-2002.- One month collaborating in the research project ‘Optimization

Models for Data Mining’, at the Department of Quantitative Economics, Faculty
of Economics and Business Administration, Maastricht University, The
Netherlands.

• October 2001.- Six weeks collaborating in the research project ‘Optimization

Models for Data Mining’, at the Department of Quantitative Economics, Faculty
of Economics and Business Administration, Maastricht University, The
Netherlands.
Participation in Research Projects.

• Métodos de Optimización Global para la toma de decisiones, (Global

Optimization Methods for Decision Making) led by Emilio Carrizosa Priego,
granted by Ministerio de Ciencia y Tecnología, Spain, 2002-2005.

• Red Temática de Análisis y Aplicaciones de Decisiones Sobre Localización de

Servicios y Problemas Relacionados (Network in Analysis and Applications of
Decisions on Facility Locations and Related Problems) coordinated by Elena
Fernández, granted by Ministerio de Ciencia y Tecnología, Spain, 2003-2004.

• Red Temática De Decisiones Multicriterio (Network in Multicriteria Decisions)

coordinated by Rafael Caballero Fernández, granted by Ministerio de Ciencia y
Tecnología, Spain, 2003-2004.

• Red Temática de Análisis de Localizaciones y sus Aplicaciones (Network in

Locational Análisis and Applications) (BFM2002-10428-E) (Network in
Localization) coordinated by Rafael Caballero Fernández, granted by Ministerio
de Ciencia y Tecnología, Spain, 2003-2004.

• Optimization Models for Data Mining, directed by Dolores Romero Morales in

cooperation with dr. Emilio Carrizosa, granted by METEOR, The Netherlands,
2001.

• Revisión y actualización de los modelos de ayuda a la toma de decisiones para

optimización del encaje en oficinas bancarias, directed by Rafael Blanquero,
supported by Promainsur.

Grants and awards.

• Spanish representant for the XXII EURO Summer Institute (XXII ESI), Ankara,
Turkey, July 2004. Jointly granted by The Association of European Operational
Research Societies (EURO) and the Sociedad Española de Estadistica e
Investigación Operativa (SEIO).
• Research collaboration grant 1999/2000, granted by Ministerio de Educación y
Cultura, Spain.

Assistance to courses and other relevant information.

• The Analysis of Patterns. Centre "Ettore Majorana" for Scientific Culture, Erice,
Italy, 2005.
• Bioinformatics and Genomics. Universidad de Sevilla, Spain, 2004.

Skills.
• Languages: Spanish (native), English (fluent).
• Programming languages: MATLAB, C++.
• Programs: SPSS, CPLEX, AMPL.