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

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.

Contact:

email: kelly@dme.ufrj.br

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