Dr. Igor Barahona is an assistant professor in KFUPM Business School, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals. He completed his Doctorate program in Statistics and Operations Research at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia in 2013, after obtaining a master’s degree in Quality and Productivity Systems from ITESM, Campus Monterrey. Dr. Barahona’s research interests lie in the application of statistical methods to investigate various social phenomena, statistical sensometry of foods and beverages, and the analysis of large-scale textual databases (big data). He is the author of the book “The Level of Adoption of Analytical Tools” and has published articles in indexed journals.

PhD in Statistics and Operations Research.  UPC-BarcelonaTech. 

M.Sc in Quality Systems and Productivity at the Tecnologico de Monterrey

Multivariate Statistics
Data Science
Multicriteria Decision Analysis

Barahona, I. (2023). The evolving of Data Science and the Saudi Arabia case. How much have we changed in 13 years?. Joint Statistical Meetings – American Statistical Association (JSM2023), Toronto Canada. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10000204

Almulhim, T, & Barahona I. (2023). “An extended picture fuzzy multicriteria group decision analysis with different weights: A case study of COVID-19 vaccine allocation.” Socio-Economic Planning Sciences 101435. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.seps.2022.101435

Vega-Villalobos,. A, et al. (2022). “Correlation between mobility in mass transport and mortality due to COVID-19: A comparison of Mexico City, New York, and Madrid from a data science perspective.” Plos one3:e0264713. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0264713

Arrua-Duarte, Elsa, et al. (2022). “Comparative study of the pencil-and-paper and digital formats of the Spanish DARS scale.” Acta Neuropsychiatrica5. 253-259. https://doi.org/10.1017/neu.2021.45

Martinez-Nicolas,. I, et. al. (2022). “Impact of depression on anxiety, well-being, and suicidality in Mexican adolescent and young adult students from Mexico City: a mental health screening using smartphones.” The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry3. 40447. http://doi.org/10.4088/JCP.20m13806

Almulhim, T, & Barahona, I. (2021). Decision support system for ranking relevant indicators for reopening strategies following COVID-19 lockdowns. Qual Quant. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11135-021-01129-3

Almulhim, T, & Barahona, I. (2020). An Integrated Approach for Fuzzy-Dynamic Multi-Attribute Group Decision Making With Application in Renewable Energy. IEEE Access, 8, 145092-145106. https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2020.3014897

Barahona, I., Sanmiguel E., & Yang JB (2020). Sensory attributes of coffee beverages and their relation to printed price and package information. A case study of Colombian customers’ preferences. Food Science & Nutrition. https://doi.org/10.1002/fsn3.1404

Arenas-Castañeda, P. E., Bisquert, F. A., Martinez-Nicolas, I., Espíndola, L. A. C., Barahona, I., Maya-Hernández, C., … & Baca-Garcia, E. (2020). Universal mental health screening with a focus on suicidal behaviour using smartphones in a Mexican rural community: protocol for the SMART-SCREEN population-based survey. BMJ open, 10(7). https://dx.doi.org/10.1136%2Fbmjopen-2019-035041

Villa, D., Barahona, I., & Álvarez LJ (2019). Diseño de un espacio semántico sobre la base de la Wikipedia. Una propuesta de análisis de la semántica latente para el idioma español. Motivos Matemáticos (motivos.matem.unam.mx/vol2/num1/aplicadas.html)

Arrua-Duarte, E., Migoya-Borja, M., Barrigón, M. L., Barahona, I., Delgado-Gomez, D., Courtet, P., … & Baca-García, E. (2019). Spanish adaptation of the Dimensional Anhedonia Rating Scale (DARS). Journal of affective disorders, 245, 702. DOI: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2018.11.040.