Awards, Grants and Fellowships

Grant, CAPES PrInt UFBA, Brazilian Coordination of Improvement of Higher Education Personnel, December 2022. Description: Grant to visit Monash University, Australia, as Senior Visiting Professor between December 01, 2023, and May 31, 2024

3rd Best Poster Award, 1st SaLLy Day, October 28, 2023

2022 Outstanding Papers in Crop Breeding and Genetics Award, Crop Science Society of America, December 2022

2nd Best Poster on Statistics and Data Science, 4th Conference on Statistics and Data Science, December 1-3, 2022. Description: Silva, J.V.R. and Rodrigues, P.C.: Different faces of defense: Studying the National Basketball Association’s (NBA) defensive positions

3rd Best Poster on Statistics and Data Science, 4th Conference on Statistics and Data Science, December 1-3, 2022. Description: Solci, C.C., Reisen, V.A., and Rodrigues, P.C.: Robust local bootstrap for stationary time series with missing data.

1st place in the IASC Data Analysis Competition 2021, organized by the International Association for Statistical Computing, May 2021

Bolsista de Produtividade em Pesquisa - PQ-2, CNPq grant. (March 2020 – February 2023)

Best paper award, 2019, 2nd International Conference and workshop on telecommunication, computing, electrical, electronics and control (ICW-Telkomnika), November 19-20, 2019. Description: Certificate of Appreciation for Best Paper Authors for the paper “SSA-based hybrid forecasting models and applications” by Sulandari, W., Subanar, Suhartono, Utami, H., Lee, M.H. and Rodrigues, P.C.

Travel grant, “2019 IBS Regional Meetings Travel Grant” from the International Biometric Society, to attend the 7th Channel Network Conference (Rothamsted Research, UK).

Travel grant, “Apoio à Participação em Eventos Científicos no Exterior - AVG” from the CNPq, Brazil, to attend the conferences COMPSTAT 2018 (Iasi, Romania) and LinStat 2018 (Poznan, Polonia)

Best paper award, ISBIS 2016 – International Symposium on Business and Industrial Statistics, June 8-10, 2016. Description: Third place in the best paper award competition by a young statistician presented at the ISBIS 2016, Barcelona, Spain. (Rahim Mahmoudvand – “A New Parsimonious Vector Forecasting Model in Singular Spectrum Analysis”)

Best poster award, 61st RBras 2016 – 61st annual meeting of the Brazilian Region of the International Biometric Society, May 23-25, 2016. Description: Second place in the best poster competition by a MSc Student presented at the 61st RBras 2016, Salvador, Brazil. (Cristiane Souza – “Redução de dimensionalidade e visualização: comparação entre os modelos AMMI Ponderado e AMMI Robusto”)

Elected Member of the International Statistical Institute (ISI) since December 2011.

PhD Grant SFRH/BD/35994/2007, Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology). From October 2007 to September 2011.

Mat Triad Young Scientists Awards, Mat Triad 2011 – Conference on Matrix Analysis and its Applications, July 15, 2011. The prize is attributed to the best talk by young scientists at the Mat Triad 2011, Tomar, Portugal. (“Weighted singular value decomposition and application to the study of QTL by environment interactions”)

Principal investigator (PI), FACC Grant 440.02, “17th European Young Statisticians Meeting", 2010-2011.

 LinStat Young Scientists Awards, LinStat 2010 - International Conference on Trends and Perspectives in Linear Statistical Inference, July 30, 2010. Prize attributed to the best poster by young scientists presented at the LinStat 2010, Tomar, Portugal. (“Orthogonal Families for one and two-tier prime basis factorials”).

Travel Grant 110690, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, July of 2010. To attend the International Symposium on Business and Industrial Statistics (ISBIS), Portoroz, Slovenia, July 5 - 9, 2010.

“Winner of Prémio SPE 2009” - Prize attributed to the best paper by young statisticians sent to the XVII Conference of the Portuguese Statistical Society. This allowed having an Invited Talk at that conference and a publication on its proceedings. September 30 to October 3, 2009. (Método de Imputação Recorrente: Análise Espectral Singular com Valores Omissos - Recurrent Imputation Method: Singular Spectrum Analysis with Missing Values, with M. de Carvalho).

“Winner of Prize ERS IASC Young Researcher Award” of the 18th International Conference on Computational Statistics, COMPSTAT’2008, with the paper “Monitoring Calibration of the Singular Spectrum Analysis Method” (with M. de Carvalho). August 29, 2008, Porto, Portugal.

Elected National Participant to attend the 15th European Young Statisticians Meeting, 2007, by the International Organising Committee on behalf of the European Regional Committee of the Bernoulli Society.

“Scholarship - Discount of 80% on registration fee prices for five merit students” at IASC-ERS summer school “STATISTICAL LEARNING Data Mining and Regression Tools”. From September 3 to September 7, 2007.

“Winner of PrizeEQS2006 - Honor Mention” at the V Conference: Statistics and Quality in the Health, with the work “Nonlinear Principal Components: an application to Heart Failure data”. November 10, 2006, Lisbon, Portugal.

Fellowship by Instituto Superior Técnico, Technical University of Lisbon. From September 2003 to July 2006.

Fellowship - Fundo de Apoio à Comunidade Científica (FAAC) - Ref. 440.02, Proc. 05/5/723 - to attend the 35th International Biometrical Colloquium, given by Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia of Ministério da Ciência, Tecnologia e Ensino Superior, Portugal. September, 2005.

A grant from the Faculty of Sciences and Technology, Nova University of Lisbon. Reason: Second best student to finish the course of Mathematics in the school in the year 2002/2003. November 19, 2004.

Trainee Fellowship by Project PRODEP III - Program of training periods in superior education. From July to December of 2003.