Francisco Louzada is a Professor of Statistics in the Institute of Mathematical Science and Computing at the University of São Paulo (USP). He also serves as a director of the Technology Transfer of the Center for Research, Innovation and Dissemination of Mathematical Science in Industry (CEPID-CeMEAI) and of the MBA in Data Science at CeMEAI. Francisco Louzada completed his Ph.D. in Statistics from the University of Oxford in 1998, Master in Computer Science and Computational Mathematics from the USP in 1991, and Bachelor of Statistics from the UFSCar in 1988. His area of expertise includes data science, statistical machine learning, statistical inference, survival/reliability analysis, and time series.