I completed my Ph.D. in Statistics in 2012 at the Nova University of Lisbon, Portugal, and my Habilitation (Agregação) in Mathematics, Specialization in Statistics and Stochastic Processes in 2019 at Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon, Portugal.Since 2013, I have been a Professor at the Department of Statistics of the Federal University of Bahia, Brazil. I was the Research Director of CAST -- Center for Applied Statistics and Data Analytics at Tampere University, Finland, from April 2015 to December 2019. I am the Director of the Statistical Learning Laboratory (SaLLy).I'm an ISI Elected member and former Council Member of the International Statistical Institute (ISI) (2015-2019), former Vice-President (2009-2011; 2011-2013), and former Council Member of the International Society for Business and Industrial Statistics (ISBIS) (2015-2019), and former Chair of the ISI Young Statisticians Committee, the Special Interest Group for Young Statisticians of the ISI. I was also the founder and Chairman of the Latin American Regional Section of the International Association for Statistical Computing between 2017 and 2019. My research interests include statistical learning, dimensionality reduction and visualization, time series forecasting and singular spectrum analysis, robust statistics, and big data analytics. I have authored/coauthored more than 90 scientific papers in collaboration with 132 co-authors from 62 universities in 24 countries and delivered more than 140 invited talks and seminars. I am currently Co-Editor of Biometrical Letters (since 2013), Managing Editor of SOIC – Statistics, Optimization and Information Computing (since 213), Co-Editor of the Brazilian Journal of Biometrics (since 2021), and Co-Editor of Computational Statistics (since 2021).Among other activities, I am currently the President of the International Society for Business and Industrial Statistics (ISBIS), President-Elect of the International Association for Statistical Computing, Member of the Representative Council of the International Biometric Society, member of the Board of Directors of the Brazilian Statistical Association, and ex-officio Council Member of the International Statistical Institute. Website: www.paulocanas.orgwww.SaLLy.ufba.br