Alex Monito Nhancololo

Ph.D. student in Statistics and Probability

A. M. Nhancololo is a Ph.D. student in Statistics and Probability at the Institute of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science, University of São Paulo (IME–USP), advised by Prof. Airlane Pereira Alencar. He is currently (01/01 - 30/06, 2026) a visiting researcher at Jaume I University, advised by Prof. Jorge Mateu.

He holds an M.Sc. in Statistics and Agricultural Experimentation from the Federal University of Lavras (UFLA), advised by Prof. João Domingos Scalon, where he received the Best Thesis Award (2024). He earned his Bachelor of Education in Mathematics with a specialization in Statistics from Universidade Save, advised by Prof. André Silvestre Cuinica.

Additionally, he is pursuing an M.Sc. in Financial Engineering at WorldQuant University and an MBA in Artificial Intelligence and Big Data at the Institute of Mathematical and Computer Sciences, University of São Paulo (ICMC–USP), advised by Prof. Caetano T. Júnior. He was awarded third place in the Spatial AI Challenge 2024 (I-GUIDE), alongside Julian Huang and Yue Lin (University of Chicago).

His primary research interests lie in spatio-temporal statistics and their applications to the social sciences, environmental studies, ecology, agriculture, and medicine. Methodologically, his work focuses on geospatial intelligence (GeoAI), spatial point processes, lattice/area data, and geostatistics.

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