Paulo Canas Rodriguez (Universidade Federal da Bahía)

Professor at the Department of Statistics, Universidade Federal da Bahía, Brazil. He was the Research Director of CAST -- Center for Applied Statistics and Data Analytics at Tampere University, Finland. He created the Statistical Learning Laboratory (SaLLy - My Lab: SaLLy). His research interests include the following: Statistical learning, High-dimensional data modeling, low-rank approximations, and weighted low-rank approximations, Time series and singular spectrum analysis, Robust statistics, Big data and visualization, Modeling and analyzing Genotype-by-Environment interactions and QTL-by-Environment interactions and Applications to plant sciences, genetics, finances, and environmental sciences. 

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