I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Statistics and a Faculty Member of the Graduate Program in Decision Models and Health at the Federal University of Paraíba (Brazil). I was a Research Associate in Data Science in the Department of Computer Science at Loughborough University (UK, 2022) and a Senior Lecturer in Data Analytics at De Montfort University (UK, 2023–2024). I hold a Bachelor's and a Master's degree in Statistics and a PhD in Computer Science (Machine Learning). My main research interests include statistical modelling, symbolic data analysis, interval-valued data, kernel methods, machine learning, and fairness assessment in ML algorithms. I am the author of over 50 technical papers published in international journals and conference proceedings. I am an ISI Elected Member and had held various leadership roles, including serving on the Board of Directors of LARS-IASC (2025-2028 / 2017–2020), as Executive Secretary of the Brazilian Association of Statistics (ABE, 2018–2020), and as a Member of the Board of Directors of ABE (2020–2024).