Has a Bachelor (1980) and Master's (1983) degree in Physics from IF-USP - the Institute of Physics of the University of Sao Paulo; a Master's (1989) and Ph.D. (1991) in Operations Research from Cornell University; Privatdozent (2002) at MAC-IME-USP - the Computer Science Dept. of the Institute of Mathematics and Statistics of USP. Full Professor (2010) at MAP-IME-USP the Applied Mathematics Dept. of IME-USP. Has contributions in the areas of Operations research; Numerical optimization; Sparse matrices; Bayesian statistics; Logic and Epistemology. President (2010-2012) of ISBrA, the Brazilian chapter of ISBA, the International Society for Bayesian Analysis; President (2017-2020) of IME-USP's Research Commission; Member (2019) of the Brazilian Academy of Philosophy.