Full Professor since 2006 and currently Director since 2022 of the Institute of Mathematical and Computer Sciences at the University of São Paulo (ICMC-USP), São Carlos Campus, Research Productivity Fellow 1A of CNPq. He coordinates the IARA network, Artificial Intelligence Recreating Environments. He leads the WG12.2 Working Group on Machine Learning and Data Mining of the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP). He served as Vice-President of the Brazilian Computer Society (SBC) from 2019 to 2023, member of the CNPq Computer Science Advisory Committee (CA-CC) from 2018 to 2021 (coordinator from 2019 to 2020). From 2013 to 2017 he was a member of the council of the International Association for Statistical Computing (IASC), of the International Statistical Institute (ISI). His main research interests are Machine Learning, Data Mining, and Data Science, with applications in various fields. He has published several papers in these areas, some of which have been awarded at conferences organized by ACM, IEEE, and SBC. He has written several books, including "Artificial Intelligence: A Machine Learning Approach", published by GrupoGen in 2011 and winner of the Jabuti Award 2012, and "A General Introduction to Data Analytics", published by Wiley in 2018.
