Awards

• Best Graduate Award International Master’s Program in Statistics CIENES University of Chile, 1981.
• Award for Best Doctorate in Statistics 1987. “Deutsche Statistische Gesellschaft” (DSG), 1987, Berlin, Germany.

Scholarships

• Pedro Aguirre Cerda Foundation Scholarship, Technical-Professional Studies (1964 – 1968).
• Federico Santa María Scholarship, Undergraduate Engineering Studies, (1969 – 1972).
• Organization of American States Scholarship, Graduate Studies Master in Statistics (1980 – 1981).
• German Academic Exchange Service Scholarship (D.A.A.D.) Ph.D. Studies in Statistics (1984 – 1989).
• German Academic Exchange Service Scholarship (D.A.A.D.) Post-doctoral, Computational Intelligence (1999 – 2000).