Iñaki Úcar is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Statistics and a Research Fellow at the Big Data Institute of Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. He is the Director of the Master in Computational Social Science, an open-source advocate, and an R package author.

He received his MEng in Telecommunications Engineering and MScEng in Communications from Universidad Pública de Navarra in 2011 and 2013, respectively, and his MScEng and PhD in Telematic Engineering from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid in 2014 and 2018, respectively.

He has developed expertise in statistical software, high-performance computing, simulation, data wrangling and visualization, network analysis, and Markov processes. His current research interests are varied, including the interpretability of ML models and the application of data science to problems related to social networks, collective behavior, inequality, and misinformation.