“In God we trust, all others must bring data.” (W. Edwards Deming)
About Me
I am an Instructor of Information Systems and Operations Management in the Department of Management at the University of North Florida — Go Ospreys! My work bridges theory and application: I develop methodologies that advance statistical methods while delivering practical solutions across interdisciplinary fields such as quantitative finance, risk-based management, reliability theory, and computational methods. My main research interests are financial econometrics, computational statistics, Bayesian hierarchical models, resampling methods, and survival analysis.
I am also an active contributor to the open source community, where I develop and maintain R packages. You can learn more about my background and projects in my Resume and on my GitHub.
Education
[4] Ph.D. in Statistics (2025) - Kansas State University
- Recipient of the “William L. Stamey Teaching Award”
- Recipient of the “GSC Award for Excellence in Teaching”
[3] B.Sc. in Statistics (2018) - University of Brasilia (UnB)
- Recipient of the “Outstanding Student Award”
[2] M.Sc. in Economic Development (2012) - State University of Campinas (Unicamp)
[1] Licenciatura in Geography (2008) - State University of Campinas (Unicamp)
Currently
A few things on my desk right now:
- A Bayesian approach to detecting false positives in cointegration tests, using a prior–posterior conflict framework (UNF/CCB Advancement Grant).
- Spatiotemporal patterns of chronic-disease care delivery before and during the pandemic (UNF/CCB Societal Impact Grant).
- treeSS, my new CRAN package for spatial–hierarchical cluster detection.