Professional Activities

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)

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

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

Bolsista de Produtividade em Pesquisa - PQ-2, CNPq grant. (March 203 – February 2026)

(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 2020 – February 2023)

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

ISBIS representative in the ISI Working Group on Data Science (since July 2020)

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

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

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

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 – April 2021)

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

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

Chair of the ISI Young Statisticians Committee (since August 2013)

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)

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

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

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

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

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 Committee, the Young Business and Industrial Statisticians (May 2009 - September 2011)

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

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