Patricia BelfioreDr. Belfiore is Associate Professor at the Federal University of ABC (UFABC), where she teaches Data Science, Statistics, Operational Research, Production Planning and Control, and Programming and Algorithms Development to Engineering students. She hs a master’s in electrical engineering and a PhD in production engineering from the Polytechnic School of the University of Sao Paulo (EPUSP). She has a post-doctorate degree in Operational Research and Computer Programming from Columbia University in New York. She takes part in several research and consultancy projects in the fields of modeling, optimization and programming. She has taught Operational Research, Multivariate Data Analysis and Operations Research and Logistics to undergraduate and master’s students at FEI University Center and at the Arts, Sciences and Humanities College of the University of Sao Paulo (EACH/USP). Her main research interests are in the fields of modeling, simulation, combinatorial optimization, heuristics and computer programming. She is the author/co-author of 9 books. She is a consultant to companies operating in sectors such as retail, industry, banks, insurance and healthcare, with the use of Process Simulation and Optimization, Data Analysis, and Machine and Deep Learning platforms, such as R, Python, Stata, IBM SPSS and ProModel. Read More Read Less