Services to the Scientific Community

Head of the Department of Statistics of the Federal University of Bahia (October 10, 2022 – October 09, 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)

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

Member of the Scientific Board of the MSc program in Mathematics, Federal University of Bahia, Brazil (November 2018 – October 2020)

Vice-Coordinator of the Specialization in Data Science and Big Data, Federal University of Bahia, Brazil (since May 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, since April 2015

Local correspondent of the Brazilian Statistical Association, Federal University of Bahia, Brazil (since August 2015)

Representative of the Institute of Mathematics in the main PIBIC committee which awards undergraduate scholarships, Federal University of Bahia (April 2015 – July 2016)

Member of the Scientific Board of the Graduation in Statistics, Federal University of Bahia, Brazil (June 2015 – May 2016)

Member of the Scientific Board of the Graduation in Mathematics, Federal University of Bahia, Brazil (January 2014 – May 216)

Member of the Scientific Committee, Research Center for Mathematics and Applications, Faculty of Sciences and Technology, Nova University of Lisbon, Portugal (February 2012 – January 2015)

Public Relations (PR) representative of the PPC (PE&RC Graduated School PhD Council, Wageningen University, The Netherlands) (January 2011 – January 2012)

Member of the Administration Committee of the PhD discussion group “Plant-Soil Interactions”, Wageningen University, The Netherlands, with monthly meetings (November 2010 – December 2011)

Member of the Production Ecology & Resource Conservation (PE&RC Graduated School, Wageningen University, The Netherlands) PhD Council (PPC) (November 2010 – January 2012)

President-Elect of the International Association for Statistical Computing (July 2023 – August 2025; President between August 2025 and August 2027)

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)

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)

President of the Brazilian Region of the International Biometric Society (May 2018 - May 2020; May 202 - November 2022)

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

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

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

Member of the Ad Hoc Committee of The International Biometric Society “International Program Committee” (01/2018 – 12/2020)

Member of the Ad Hoc Committee of The International Biometric Society “International Program Committee” (01/2016 – 12/2018)

Member of the Ad Hoc Committee of The International Biometric Society “Website and Membership Advisory Committee” (01/2019 – 01/2020)

Member of the International Statistical Institute Communications Working Group (since 02/2018)

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)

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

Chair of the Founding Committee of the Latin American Regional Section of the International Association for Statistical Computing (LARS-IASC) (August 2015 – August 2016)

Member of the International Statistical Institute (ISI) Young Statisticians Committee (August 2017 – present)

Chair of the International Statistical Institute (ISI) Young Statisticians Committee (August 2013 – July 2017)

Member of the ISI Soundboard to redesign the ISI website (September 2014 - August 2015)

Leader of the Special Interest Group “Young Statisticians” of the European Network for Business and Industrial Statistics (ENBIS) (September 2012 – August 2014)

President of the jSPE, the section of young statisticians of the Portuguese statistical Society (October 2011 – December 2013)

Vice-President of the International Society of Business and Industrial Statistics (ISBIS), a society of the International Statistical Institute (ISI) (August 2009 - August 2011; September 2011 – August 2013)

Member of the y-BIS Executive Committee, the Young Business and Industrial Statisticians (August 2013 – present)

Chair of the y-BIS Executive Committee, the Young Business and Industrial Statisticians (August 2009 – August 2011; September 2011 – August 2013)

Co-Founder (with M. de Carvalho) of the jSPE, the Section of Young Statisticians in the Portuguese Statistical Society (April 2010 - September 2011)

Chair of the founding y-BIS Executive Committee, the Young Business and Industrial Statisticians (May 2009 - August 2011)

Co-Founder (with Nick Fisher) of y-BIS, the Young Business and Industrial Statisticians (May 2009 – August 2011)

Working group to discuss the issue of strengthening the presence and the position of Young Statisticians within the International Statistical Institute (ISI) (March 2010 - August 2011)

ISI Soundboard for the revision of the ISI Website (September 2009 - June 2010)

01/2018 – present Advisory Board Member of the Swiss Innovation Valley (since January 2018)