Dr Wagner Barreto-Souza is a permanent Lecturer/Assistant Professor in Statistics at UCD School of Mathematics and Statistics. Before joining UCD, he was a Research Scientist in Statistics at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST/KSA) and an Assistant Professor of Statistics at Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (Brazil). His research areas are Time Series Analysis, Regression Analysis, Survival Analysis, Econometrics, and Applied Probability. He is also the Deputy Programme Director of the MSc in Data and Computational Science offered by the UCD School of Mathematics and Statistics.