Arnaldo Rabello de Aguiar Vallim Filho holds a PhD from the Polytechnic School of the University of São Paulo and a Master of Engineering from the University of Florida. He is currently a researcher and full Professor at Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie, with a predominant role in the area of Analytics in Data Science. His researches involve AI, OR, statistical techniques and heuristic methods applied to analyzes of large data masses. He is the Research Coordinator at the Faculty of Computer Science and Co-Coordinator of the Big Data Research Laboratory and Applied Analytical Methods – BigMAAp, at the same university.