Jodavid Ferreira UFPE

Students & Advising

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Welcome to the Students & Advising page. I actively supervise and mentor students across undergraduate, master’s, and doctoral programs in the Department of Statistics (DEst) and the Graduate Program in Statistics (PPGEST) at the Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE).

Our research group focuses on Statistical Machine Learning, Deep Representation Learning, Polarimetric SAR (PolSAR) Remote Sensing, Generative AI & Autonomous Agents, and Applied Statistical Modeling.

🔬 Current Students (In Progress)

Doctoral Advising (Ph.D. / Doutorado)

  • Nyedja Fialho Morais Barbosa
    • Program: Graduate Program in Decision Models and Health (PPGMDS) · Federal University of Paraíba (UFPB)
    • Period: 2026 – Present
    • Work / Thesis Topic: Voice as a Biomarker for Emotional Valence: Modeling EMOVOX-BR Speech Tasks Using Convolutional Neural Networks (Voz como biomarcador da valência emocional: modelagens de tarefas de fala do EMOVOX-BR via redes neurais convolucionais)
    • Role: Co-advisor (Coorientador)
    • Funding: FAPESQ (Fundação de Apoio à Pesquisa do Estado da Paraíba)

Master’s Degree (M.Sc. / Mestrado em Estatística)

  • Leandro Albuquerque da Luz

    • Program: Graduate Program in Statistics (PPGEST) · Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE)
    • Period: 2026 – Present
    • Work / Dissertation Topic: Topics in Statistical Learning (Tópicos em Aprendizagem Estatística)
    • Role: Main Advisor (Orientador)
    • Funding: CAPES

  • María José García Montes

    • Program: Graduate Program in Statistics (PPGEST) · Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE)
    • Period: 2025 – Present
    • Work / Dissertation Topic: Topics in Statistical Learning (Tópicos em Aprendizagem Estatística)
    • Role: Main Advisor (Orientador)
    • Funding: CAPES

  • Martha Liliana Huertas Madrid

    • Program: Graduate Program in Statistics (PPGEST) · Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE)
    • Period: 2025 – Present
    • Work / Dissertation Topic: Topics in Statistical Learning (Tópicos em Aprendizagem Estatística)
    • Role: Main Advisor (Orientador)
    • Funding: CAPES

  • Tatiana Alejandra Moreno

    • Program: Graduate Program in Statistics (PPGEST) · Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE)
    • Period: 2025 – Present
    • Work / Dissertation Topic: Estimation of Causal Treatment Effects Using Meta-Learners (Estimação de Efeito Causal de Tratamento Utilizando Meta-Aprendizes)
    • Role: Co-advisor (Coorientador)
    • Funding: FACEPE

Undergraduate Research & Academic Projects (Graduação)

  • Ana Vitória Rodrigues de Araújo

    • Level: Undergraduate Scientific Initiation (Iniciação Científica - PIBIC)
    • Period: 2026 – Present
    • Work: SAR Image Processing Environment Using Intelligent Agents (Ambiente de Processamento de Imagens SAR com Uso de Agentes Inteligentes)
    • Role: Advisor (Orientador)
    • Institution: Department of Statistics · UFPE
    • Funding: CNPq

  • Caleb Macena Falcão Martins

    • Level: Undergraduate Research & Academic Mentoring (Estágio Obrigatório Estatística)
    • Period: 2026 – Present
    • Work: Adaptation of Open Large Language Models to Brazilian Textual Data: Corpus Curation, Fine-Tuning, and Statistical Performance Evaluation (Adaptação de Modelos de Linguagem de Grande Escala Abertos a Dados Textuais Brasileiros: Curadoria de Corpus, Ajuste Fino e Avaliação Estatística de Desempenho)
    • Role: Advisor (Orientador)
    • Institution: Department of Statistics · UFPE

  • Jorge Antônio Silva Santos

    • Level: Undergraduate Research & Academic Mentoring (Estágio Obrigatório Estatística)
    • Period: 2026 – Present
    • Work: Use of Time Series in SAR Imagery for Change Detection in the Amazon (Utilização de Séries Temporais em Imagens SAR para Detecção de Mudanças na Amazônia)
    • Role: Advisor (Orientador)
    • Institution: Department of Statistics · UFPE

🎓 Completed Advising & Alumni (Orientados)

2026

Undergraduate Degree - Bachelor’s Thesis (Graduação - TCC)

  • Leandro Albuquerque da Luz

    • Degree: B.Sc. in Statistics · UFPE
    • Work / Monograph: Ensemble Fuzzy Naive Bayes: A New Approach for Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Image Classification (Ensemble Fuzzy Naive Bayes: Uma Nova Abordagem para Classificação de Imagens de Radar de Abertura Sintética - SAR)
    • Role: Advisor (Orientador)
    • Description: Formulated an ensemble strategy combining fuzzy parameter estimation with Naive Bayes classification to handle speckle noise and enhance land-cover discrimination in satellite radar imagery.

  • Marcelo Rauscher Rios

    • Degree: B.Sc. in Statistics · UFPE
    • Work / Monograph: Use of Tabular Deep Learning Architectures in Remote Sensing: Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Image Classification with TabR and TabNet (Utilização de Arquiteturas de Aprendizado Profundo de Dados Tabulares em Sensoriamento Remoto: Classificação de Imagens de Radar de Abertura Sintética - SAR com TabR e TabNet)
    • Role: Advisor (Orientador)
    • Description: Evaluated state-of-the-art deep learning architectures specialized for tabular data structures (TabNet and TabR) in feature-extracted SAR polarimetric data.

  • Paulo Henrique Freitas Bezerra

    • Degree: B.Sc. in Statistics · UFPE
    • Work / Monograph: Stratification of Agricultural Populations Using Entropy Measure (Estratificação de Populações Agropecuárias Utilizando Medida de Entropia)
    • Role: Co-advisor (Coorientador)
    • Description: Developed an entropy-based stratification criterion for optimal sampling frame design in agricultural and livestock census surveys.

Undergraduate Scientific Initiation (Iniciação Científica - PIBIC)

  • Jorge Antonio Silva Santos

    • Level: Scientific Initiation (B.Sc. in Statistics) · UFPE
    • Work: Use of Deep Learning in Signal Processing of SAR Images (Utilização de Deep Learning no Processamento de Sinais de Imagens SAR)
    • Role: Advisor (Orientador)
    • Funding: PROPESQ / UFPE

  • Ana Vitória Rodrigues de Araújo

    • Level: Scientific Initiation (B.Sc. in Statistics) · UFPE
    • Work: Use of Intelligent Agents for SAR Image Processing (Utilização de Agentes Inteligentes para Processamento de Imagens SAR)
    • Role: Advisor (Orientador)
    • Institution: Department of Statistics · UFPE

Academic Mentoring & Software Development (Estágio Obrigatório Estatística)

  • Thays Silva de Aquino
    • Level: Academic Project & Software Development (B.Sc. in Statistics) · UFPE
    • Work: Development of a Web Application with a Relationship Map of Intervention Projects from the Health and Well-being Program (Desenvolvimento de Aplicação Web com Mapa de Relações dos Projetos de Intervenção do Programa Saúde e Bem Viver)
    • Role: Advisor (Orientador)

2025

Master’s Degree (Mestrado em Estatística)

  • Paula Tárcimam Gomes Santos
    • Degree: M.Sc. in Statistics (PPGEST) · Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE)
    • Work / Dissertation: GOLL-T Regression Model Applied to Vegetation Data (Modelo de Regressão GOLL-T Aplicado a Dados de Vegetação)
    • Role: Co-advisor (Coorientador)
    • Funding: CAPES
    • Description: Introduced a flexible parametric regression model grounded on the Generalized Odd Log-Logistic Student-t (GOLL-t) distribution tailored for bounded and skewed vegetation index metrics.

Undergraduate Scientific Initiation (Iniciação Científica - PIBIC)

  • Leandro Albuquerque da Luz

    • Level: Scientific Initiation (B.Sc. in Statistics) · UFPE
    • Work: New Bayesian Network Based on the $G_I^0$ Distribution with Fuzzy Parameters for SAR Image Classification (Nova Rede Bayesiana Baseada na Distribuição G0I com Parâmetros Fuzzy para Classificação de Imagens SAR)
    • Role: Advisor (Orientador)
    • Funding: CNPq

  • Jorge Antonio Silva Santos

    • Level: Scientific Initiation (B.Sc. in Statistics) · UFPE
    • Work: Use of CNN (Convolutional Neural Networks) for SAR Image Classification (Utilização de CNN para Classificação de Imagens SAR)
    • Role: Advisor (Orientador)
    • Institution: Department of Statistics · UFPE

Academic Mentoring & Software Development (Orientação de Outra Natureza)

  • Leandro Albuquerque da Luz
    • Level: Academic Project & Software Development (B.Sc. in Statistics) · UFPE
    • Work: Development of a Web Platform for Creating Karaoke Videos (Desenvolvimento de Plataforma Web para Criação de Vídeos de Karaokê)
    • Role: Advisor (Orientador)

🏛️ Researches Topics

Prospective topics include:

  • Statistical Learning & High-Dimensional Inference
  • Deep Representation Learning for Remote Sensing & Tabular Modalities
  • Generative AI, Large Language Models (LLMs), and Autonomous Agent Systems
  • Information-Theoretic Measures & Stochastic Complexity for Polarimetric SAR

📩 Prospective Students

Interested in joining our research group as an undergraduate researcher (PIBIC/PIBITI), undergraduate thesis student (TCC), master’s student (M.Sc.), or doctoral researcher (Ph.D.)?

Please send an email to jodavid.ferreira@ufpe.br with:

  1. Your updated Curriculum Vitae (or Lattes link);
  2. Academic transcripts (Histórico escolar);
  3. A brief statement of research interests and familiarity with R, Python, and statistical modeling.
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