Luiz Max Carvalho

Hi there,

I am a Lecturer (Professor Adjunto) at the School of Applied Mathematics (EMAp), Getulio Vargas Foundation (FGV). I hold a BSc in Microbiology and Immunology from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) and a PhD in Evolutionary Biology from the University of Edinburgh (United Kingdom).

Biological processes (such as mutation, selection, development, infection, etc 🧬 🐛 🌱 🦠) are the product of complex interactions between hundreds to hundreds of thousands of dynamic entities. I use Mathematics and Statistics 📊📐 to try and make sense of the data people collect on these processes, hoping to help paint a more complete picture of Nature.

I teach courses on Statistical Inference (undergraduate, graduate), Computational Statistics and Bayesian Statistics. See my CV for more information on papers and other academic publications (Google Scholar Profile). A collection of presentations I have given over the years is also available.

• 📫 Preferred mode of communication is via email.

• ⚡ Fun facts: Other than babbling about science, I like football ⚽ (watching and playing), opera 🎼 (watching and annoying others) and judo 🥋 (watching and practising), in this particular order. Oh, and I’m also a dad and a husband 👶 👩‍❤️‍👨.

Supervision

If you are a student and would like to work with me, I suggest you browse my Student Projects repo and see if anything tickles your curiosity.

News

• Guido Moreira and I have just ArXived a paper on adaptive truncation of infinite series with applications to Statistics. It comes with a powerful R package, sumR. Check it out!
• My paper on log-linear mixtures with Flavio Coelho, Daniel Villela and Leo Bastos is now out in Bayesian Analysis. [paper] [code].
• In this very rough preprint, Leo Santos and colleagues and I look at an exhaustive method for finding all paths between two nodes in a graph. [code].