About me

Academic Education

• Habilitation in Mathematics, Specialization in Statistics and Stochastic Processes, Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon, Portugal. Monograph title: Recent Advances in Singular Spectrum Analysis (2019)

• PhD in Statistics - Nova University of Lisbon, Portugal. Supervisors: Professor Stanisław Mejza and Professor João Tiago Mexia. Title: New strategies to detect and understand genotype-by-environment interactions and QTL-by-environment interactions (2012).

• MSc. in Statistics - Instituto Superior Técnico, Technical University of Lisbon, 2007. Supervisor: Professor João A. Branco. Title: Principal Components: The method and its generalizations (2007).

• BSc in Applied Mathematics, Specialization in Statistics (5 years degree), Faculty of Sciences and Technology of Nova University of Lisbon, 2003. Final mean of 15 values (2003).

Current Activities

• Visiting Professor, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia (November 20, 2023 - May 31, 2024

• Head & Principal Investigator of the Statistical Learning Laboratory (SaLLy) (January 2020 – present)

• Coordinator of the proposal for a MSc and PhD program in Statistics and Data Science, Federal University of Bahia (October 2019 – present)

• President of the International Society for Business and Industrial Statistics (August 2023 – August 2025)

• President-Elect of the International Society for Business and Industrial Statistics (July 2021 – August 2023; President between August 2023 and August 2025)

• (Founding) Chair of the Special Interest Group on Data Science, of the International Statistical Institute (July 2021 – July 2023)

• Bolsista de Produtividade em Pesquisa - PQ-2, CNPq grant. (March 2023 – February 2026)

• Member of the Representative Council of the International Biometric Society (July 2021 – June 2025)

• Member of the Board of Directors of the Brazilian Statistical Association (September 2020 – September 2024)

• Vice-Coordinator and Co-Founder of the Specialization in Data Science and Big Data, Federal University of Bahia, Brazil (since May 2018)

• Leader of the CNPq research group “Bioestatística e Big Data” (Biostatistics and Big Data), recognized by the Federal University of Bahia, Brazil (since July 2014)

• Co-Editor of the journal Computational Statistics (01/2021 – 12/2023)

• Co-Editor of the journal Brazilian Journal of Biometrics (since January 2021)

• Co-Editor of the journal Biometrical Letters, the official journal of the Polish Biometric Society (since May 2013)

• Managing Editor of the journal Statistics, Optimization and Information Computing (since March 2013)

Relevant Past Activities

• Head of the Department of Statistics of the Federal University of Bahia (October 10, 2022 – October 31, 2023)

• Substitute of the Vice-Dean of the Institute of Mathematics and Statistics of the Federal University of Bahia (January 1, 2023 – December 31, 2023)

• President of the Brazilian Region of the International Biometric Society (May 2018 – September 2020; September 2020 – May 2022)

• Past-Chairman of the Latin American Regional Section (LARS) of the International Association for Statistical Computing (IASC) (January 2019 – December 2020)

• Member of the Executive Committee (Publication Officer) of the International Association for Statistical Computing (IASC) (August 2019 – August 2021)

• Chairman of the Latin American Regional Section (LARS) of the International Association for Statistical Computing (IASC) (January 2017 – December 2018)

• Member of the Executive Committee of the International Association for Statistical Computing (IASC) (January 2017 – December 2018)

• Member of the Scientific Board of the European PhD in Socio-Economic and Statistical Studies (SESS), since September 2016

• Research Director of CAST – Center for Applied Statistics and Data Analytics, University of Tampere, Tampere, Finland, from April 2015 to December 2019

• Visiting Professor, University of Tampere, Finland (from April 2015 to December 2019)

• Vice-President of the Brazilian Region of the International Biometric Society (May 2016 – May 2018)

• Council Member of the International Statistical Institute (August 2015 – August 2019)

• Council Member of the International Society for Business and Industrial Statistics (August 2015 – August 2019)

• Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, Federal University of Bahia, Salvador, BA, Brazil (since April 2013)

• Chair of the International Statistical Institute (ISI) Young Statisticians Committee (since August 2013)

Research Stays and Research Appointments

• Research Director of CAST – Center for Applied Statistics and Data Analytics, University of Tampere, Tampere, Finland, since April 2015.

• Lecturer and Guest Speaker, Sebelas Maret University, Surakarta; Islamic University of Indonesia, Yogyakarta; Yogyakarta State University, Yogyakarta; IST Akprind, Yogyakarta; Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta, Indonesia, October 22, 2016 to November 20, 2016.

• Visiting Professor, University of Tampere, Finland, April 2015 to December 2015.

• Research Associate, Centro de Matemática e Aplicações (CMA, Research Center of Mathematics and Applications) of Faculty of Sciences and Technology, Nova University of Lisbon, 2012–2015; Member of the research group on “Mathematical modeling in Ecology, Evolution and Genetics”, 2014–2015.

• From July to November 2013 - Researcher Associate at Universidade Europeia, Laureate International Universities, Portugal.

• From May 5, 2013 to May 11, 2013 - Visiting Fellow at Departamento de Estatística e Experimentação Agronômica, ESALQ, University of São Paulo, Brazil. Host: Professor Carlos Tadeu Dias.

• From September 2010 to March 2012 - Visiting Fellow/Research Assistant at Biometrics, Wageningen University, The Netherlands. Host - Professor Fred van Eeuwijk.

• From September 2009 to June 2010 - Visiting Fellow/Research Assistant at Biometrics, Wageningen University, The Netherlands. Host - Professor Fred van Eeuwijk.

• From June to August of 2009 - Visiting PhD Student at Department of Mathematical and Statistical Methods, Poznan University of Life Sciences, Poland. Host - Professor Stanisław Mejza.

• From July 6, 2009, to July 10, 2009 - Research Stay at Department of Crop Sciences, Faculty of Agriculture and Horticulture, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany. Host - Professor Christel Richter.

• From January to May of 2009 - Visiting Fellow at Department of Crop and Soil Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA. Host - Professor Hugh G. Gauch.

• From October to December of 2008 - Visiting PhD Student at Department of Mathematical and Statistical Methods, Poznan University of Life Sciences, Poland. Host - Professor Stanisław Mejza.

• From February to July of 2008 - Visiting PhD Student at Department of Mathematical and Statistical Methods, Agricultural University of Poznan, Poland. Host - Professor Stanisław Mejza.

• From May 12, 2008, to May 16, 2008 - Research Stay at Department of Crop Sciences, Faculty of Agriculture and Horticulture, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany. Host - Professor Christel Richter.