Research

Research Groups

• Leader of the CNPq research group “Estatística e Ciência de Dados” (Statistics and Data Science), recognized by the Federal University of Bahia, Brazil (since November 2019)

• Member of the CNPq research group “Séries Temporais. Estudos Univariados e Multivariados” (Univariate and multivariate time series), recognized by the Federal University of Espirito Santo, Brazil (since September 2019)

• Leader of the CNPq research group “Bioestatística e Big Data” (Biostatistics and Big Data), recognized by the Federal University of Bahia, Brazil (July 2014 – November 2018)

Research Centers

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

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

• Research Associate of the 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, Evolutio,n and Genetics” 2014–2015

• Researcher of the Center for Computational and Stochastic Mathematics, Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon 2005-2012 Member of the Centro de Matemática e Aplicações (CMA, Research Center of Mathematics and Applications) of Faculty of Sciences and Technology, Nova University of Lisbon, 2005–2012

Research Interests

• Statistical learning

• Time series and singular spectrum analysis

• High-dimensional data modeling, low-rank approximations, and weighted low-rank approximations

• Modelling and analyse Genotype-by-Environment interactions and QTL-by-Environment interactions

• Robust statistics

• Big data and visualization

• Applications to plant sciences, genetics, finances, and environmental sciences