IASC - ERS Officers Elections

Candidate for: President-Elect

• Current position: Professor, Department of Statistics, Federal University of Bahia (Brazil)
• Training and education: PhD in Statistics (Nova University of Lisbon, Portugal; 2012); MSc in Statistics (Lisbon University, Portugal; 2007), and BSc in Mathematics (Nova University of Lisbon, Portugal; 2003). 
• Professional services to IASC: Member of the Executive Committee (Publication Officer) (2019 –2021); Chairman of the JDSSV Publication Committee (2019 –2021); Member of the IASC ISI Nominations Committee (2019 –2021); Past-Chairperson of the Latin American Regional Section (LARS) (02/ 2019 – 04/ 2021); Chairman of the Latin American Regional Section (LARS) (01/2017 – 01/2019); Member of the Executive Committee (ex-officio) (01/ 2017 – 12/2018); Chair of the Founding Committee of the Latin American Regional Section (LARS) (08/2015 – 08/2016).
• Professional services to the ISI and other ISI Associations:  (Founding) Chair of the Special Interest Group on Data Science, of the International Statistical Institute (07/2021 – 07/2023); Council Member of the International Statistical Institute (08/2015 – 08/2019); Chair of the Young Statisticians Committee of the ISI (08/2013 – 07/2017); President-Elect of the International Society for Business and Industrial Statistics (07/2021 – 08/2023; President between 08/2023 and 08/2025); Council Member of the International Society for Business and Industrial Statistics (2015 –2019); Vice-President of the International Society for Business and Industrial Statistics (2009 –2011; 2011 – 2013); Co-founder and Chair of the y-BIS Executive Committee, the Young Business and Industrial Statisticians (2009 – 2011; 2011 –2013)
• Professional services to other national and international associations:  President of the Brazilian Region of the International Biometric Society (2018 – 2020; 2020 – 2022); Member of the Representative Council of the International Biometric Society (2021 –2025); Member of the Board of Directors of the Brazilian Statistical Association (2020 – 2024).
• Other professional activities:  Head of the Department of Statistics of the Federal University of Bahia (10/2022 – 10/2024); Head & Principal Investigator of the Statistical Learning Laboratory (SaLLy; since 2020); Vice-Coordinator of the Specialization in Data Science and Big Data, Federal University of Bahia, Brazil (since May 2018); Research Director of CAST – Center for Applied Statistics and Data Analytics, University of Tampere, Tampere, Finland (04/2015 – 12/2019). (Co)Editor for: Computational Statistics, Statistics, Optimization & Information Computing, Biometrical Letters, Brazilian Journal of Biometrics.
• Research interests: Statistical learning, Time series and singular spectrum analysis, Robust statistics, Big data and visualization, Statistical genetics.
• Contact e-mail: [email protected]
• Personal homepage: www.paulocanas.org
• GoogleScholar: http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=KBtSLIEAAAAJ&hl=en