Dr. Fábio M Bayer is an Associate Professor at the Department of Statistics of UFSM, researcher at the Laboratory of Space Sciences of Santa Maria (LACESM/CRS/INPE), permanent professor of the Graduate Program in Statistics of UFRGS and of the Graduate Program in Production Engineering of UFSM. In the biennium, 2017-2019, he was a member of the Advisory Committee for the Exact Sciences area of ​​FAPERGS, and in 2019 he was a Visiting Researcher at the Telecommunications and Remote Sensing Laboratory, Pavia, Italy. He is currently a full member (elected) of the Board of Directors of the Brazilian Statistical Association (ABE) (2022-2026), Coordinator of the Advisory Committee for Mathematics and Statistics of FAPERGS (2022-2024), and Associate Editor of the prestigious IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. He is a member of the Brazilian Society for Applied and Computational Mathematics (SBMAC), the International Statistical Engineering Association (ISEA), ABE, and IEEE. He is actively involved in the training of human resources, with several students having received awards from different scientific societies. His main areas of interest and activity are data science, classical inference, regression models, dynamic models, and statistical signal/image processing.