About Me

I am a professor in the Department of Biostatistics and Data Science at Wake Forest University School of Medicine.

Modern biomedical research generates large volumes of heterogenous information, which poses difficult analytical challenges. My main area of research is the application of machine learning and artificial intelligence methods to the analyses of high-dimensional data. Examples of domains of applications related to my research include brain disease and aging, diabetes, women’s health, neuroimaging, omics, biomarker development, disease early risk assessment, combination of data from different sources, predictive modeling and accelerometry, among others.

I have been involved in multiple NIH-funded projects, and I am an associate editor for the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease and Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience. Additionally, I am a reviewer for multiple funding agencies and international journals.

I hold memberships in the Alzheimer's Association and the Gerontology Society of America.

In addition to my role in the Department of Biostatistics and Data Science, I am also affiliated with the Sticht Center for Healthy Aging and Alzheimer’s Prevention, Women in Science and Medicine, the Center for Addiction Research and the Center on Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism.

I received my doctorate at Aveiro University in Portugal.