I am an Associate Professor in the  Department of Statistics at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) in Brazil. 

Current President (2025 to 2027) of the Brazilian Chapter of International Society for Bayesian Analysis (ISBrA) . 

During January to March 2020 I was a visiting researcher in the Departament of Statistics at University of Florida, USA, where I worked with Prof Malay Ghosh. From 2018 to 2023 I was a Visiting Researcher at Instituto de Pesquisa Econômica Aplicada (IPEA).

Currently, I am a member of the Sampling Advisory Committee of the Instituto Nacional de Estudos e Pesquisas Educacionais Anísio Teixeira  (INEP) and a technical consultant for the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA - ONU). I am part of the editorial board of the Brazilian Journal of Probability and Statistics and Spatial and Spatial-temporal epidemiology.

I obtained my undergraduate degree in Mathematics at UFRJ (cum laude) in 2007. In 2010, I completed my MSc in Statistics at UFRJ, with a dissertation focused on Bayesian Statistics and Survey Sampling. Then, I finished my PhD in August 2014 also at UFRJ, with a thesis entitled "Forecasting models for rare and clustered populations under adaptive sampling".

Research interests:

Informative sampling; Bayesian inference; Quantile regression; Mixture models; Dynamic models; Small area estimation.

Contact:

email: kelly@dme.ufrj.br

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