Adiel Teixeira de Almeida Filho is an Associate Professor at the Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (UFPE) in the Centro de Informática (Cin) of UFPE. He holds a bachelor's, master's, and doctorate in Management Engineering from Universidade Federal de Pernambuco and worked as a visiting researcher at the University of Coimbra, the University of Southampton, and Poznan University of Technology. He was awarded relevant awards in terms of academic publication with the EURO award 2019 for best EJOR paper in the Theory and Methodology category (article awarded by the European Association of Operational Research Societies selected from more than 1800 articles in the years 2016-2017), applicability of research in society (CFA Society) and as advisor of best thesis (ANPEPRO). He is mainly interested in topics related to economic and financial management, risk analysis, decision analysis, preference learning, computational intelligence, analytics, and operational research.