Felipe Vaca

Biography

Felipe Vaca is a Research Scholar in the Multidimensional Demographic Modeling Research Group of the IIASA Population and Just Societies Program. He is an applied statistician specializing in demographic modeling. As part of his work at IIASA, he conducts research on global education indicators. His work uses Bayesian inference to estimate and monitor these indicators while integrating data from diverse sources and maintaining temporal coherence. He holds a PhD in Network Science from Central European University, Austria, where he worked under the supervision of Prof. Tiago Peixoto and specialized in analyzing, modeling, visualizing, predicting, and validating network data and statistical network models. In previous roles, he worked as a data scientist and consultant for both public institutions and private companies.

Last update: 30 OCT 2026