Prof. Alan Ricardo da Silva is an associate professor in the Department of Statistics at the University of Brasilia, Brazil, a permanent member of the Graduate Program in Statistics and the Graduate Program in Transportation. He has a bachelor's degree in Statistics from the University of Brasilia, a master's degree in Transportation, and a PhD in Transportation, also from the University of Brasilia, and a Postdoc in Spatial Statistics from the University of St. Andrews, Scotland, UK.