Prof. Marcos Santos holds two postdoctoral degrees, one of then in Space Sciences and Technologies from the Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica (ITA - Aeronautics Institute of Technology). He obtained his Master's in Industrial  Engineering from COPPE UFRJ and his Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from UFF. He currently serves as an Operations Research professor at the Instituto Militar de Engenharia (IME - Military Institute of Engineering), working in the fields of Computer Engineering, Transportation Engineering, and Defense Engineering. Additionally, he teaches in the MBA in Data Science and Analytics program at the Universidade de São Paulo (USP - University of São Paulo). With extensive teaching experience, Prof. Santos has taught Operations Research to over 10,000 students both in Brazil and internationally. He was a board directors of the Sociedade Brasileira de Pesquisa Operacional (SOBRAPO - Brazilian Operations Research Society) from 2019 to 2021. In the field of Decision Making, with an H-index 35 in Scopus database, he has presented and published more than 900 research in over 20 countries, including the United States of America, China, Italy, England, France, Serbia, India, Nepal, Chile, Portugal, Spain, among others. His global impact was recognized by Stanford University, which listed him among the top 2% of the world’s most influential scientists.