Uriel Moreira SILVA was born in Itaúna, Brazil in 1991. He received the Bachelor's Degree in Economic Sciences from Ibmec-MG in 2013 and his Master's Degree in Statistics from Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG) in 2016. In 2018, he joined the Salud Urbana en América Latina (SALURBAL) project, working as a full-time research assistant. He is currently also working in his Ph.D. in Statistics at UFMG, focused on parameter inference and system identification in Hidden Markov and State Space models.