Biography
He holds five university degrees, including a Ph.D. in Information Management specializing in Statistics and Econometrics, an MBA in Finance, a Post-graduate degree in Statistical Systems specializing in Central Banks, a Master's degree in Mathematical Statistics, and a Bachelor's degree in Statistics and Econometrics.
For professional certifications, he is certified by TÜV NORD Germany for both Risk Management and Internal Audit of the Information Security Management Systems (ISMS). During his professional life, he passed courses for CCNA (Cisco Certified Network Associate), Network Plus, Security Plus, Active Directory, Linux Shell Programming, ITIL v3, COBIT Framework, and SQL Server.
He has been a full-time university professor and consultant for over two decades and an integrated researcher at the Information Management Research and Development Center (MagIC). He serves some national and international institutions as a technical advisor/consultant, such as IMF, WHO, UN DESA, Central Banks, Banking Research Institute, and Statistics Portugal (INE).
His scientific interests have focused on Data Science in Finance and implementing Big Data and predictive models in Risk, Banking, Financial Economics, and Official Statistics. He published in top-tier journals, such as a new machine learning approach with Big Data at a top 10% journal in Artificial Intelligence and a new Layered Learning Time Series forecasting model (called DELMS) in a top 10% journal in Computer Science.
For conferences till 2023, he was Invited Speaker at seven conferences and Keynote Speaker at two others (six in Europe, one in Africa, one in South America, and one in Asia).
- Awards:
(1) the Scholastic Achievement Award in 2015 (Central Bank of Portugal), (2) the Best Research Award in 2019 (International Statistical Institute), (3) and the Best Teaching Award in 2023 (Nova University Lisbon, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, and the University of Rome Tor Vergata).
- Projects:
2022 - now: Member of Two Technical Advisory Groups: Member of two Technical Advisory Groups in the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA).
2021: Jury Member of an International Competition: Honored to be joined by Ana Serradó Bayés, Delia North, James R. Nicholson, Anushka Karkelanova, and Matt Parry as the judging panel for the International Statistical Literacy Poster Competition of 2020-2021. This international competition was organised by the education section of the International Statistical Institute (ISI) in ISLP. The winners received prizes at the 63rd World Statistics Congress of the ISI in the Netherlands.
2009 - 2011: Strategic Planning: One of the eight members of the strategic planning group of the International Data & Statistical Literacy Project. This project was initiated by the education section of the International Statistical Institute (ISI). This project aimed to present a strategic plan for promoting data and statistical literacy worldwide and in all walks of life. It was directed by Professor Dr Jim Ridgway, University of Durham, and Professor Dr Milo Schield, Augsburg University, Minneapolis.
- Recent Invited Speaker & Keynote Speaker
2023 - Keynote speaker - Brazil - Conference on Machine Learning and Big Data for Economic Stability and Risk Management, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte.
2018 - Invited - Spain - Mining Big Data for Statistical Systems of Monetary and Financial Institutions. Invited to talk at CARMA2018.
2017 - Invited - Morocco - Invited to talk at ISI World Statistics Congress.
2016 - Invited - Switzerland - Financial Stability and Statistical Systems in Banking. Invited by UNCTAD & WTO.
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