Edgar Acuña (born February 26, 1956) is a Professor of Statistics, Data Mining and Machine Learning at the University of Puerto Rico in UPRM.

After finishing his high school in the Colegio Emblemático Luis Fabio Xammar Jurado at Huacho, Professor Acuña continued undergraduate studies in Statistics at the National Agrarian University, UNALM in Lima, Peru, graduate studies in Applied Mathematics at the PUCP, in Lima, Peru, and doctoral studies in Statistics at the University of Rochester in Rochester, New York.

In July 2001, Acuña was considered by the Hispanic Engineer & IT magazine as one of the scientists to watch.

[4] Acuña is the author of "Statistical Analysis using Minitab" (written in Spanish) and published by Wiley and Sons in 2002.

Acuña along with his research group has developed the dprep library written in the R language.