Chair of the Special Interest Group on Data Science, International Statistical Institute Professor and Head of the Department of Statistics, Federal University of Bahia; President-Elect of the International Society for Business and Industrial Statistics; Vice-Coordinator of the Specialization in Data Science and Big Data; Member of the Board of Directors of the Brazilian Statistical Association; Co-Editor for: Computational Statistics, Statistics, Optimization & Information Computing, Biometrical Letters, Brazilian Journal of Biometrics.