Adriano Mendonça Souza is a Full Professor in the Department of Statistics at the Federal University of Santa Maria (UFSM), Brazil, and a CNPq Research Productivity Fellow (PQ). He holds a Bachelors degree in Mathematics, a specialization in Statistics and Quantitative Modeling, and a Masters degree in Production Engineering from UFSM. He got his PhD in Industrial Engineering at Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC), in this period he was a visiting researcher at Texas AM University (USA), and got a post doc fellowship at ISCTE Business School (Lisbon, Portugal).He is a permanent faculty member of the Graduate Programs in Production Engineering (PPGEP/UFSM) and Public Management and Public Organizations (PPGOP/UFSM), with a consolidated academic trajectory at the interface of advanced quantitative methods, public management, and productive systems. His scientific output is characterized by the rigorous application of applied statistics, econometrics, time series analysis, multivariate methods, operations research, and statistical process control, with a strong emphasis on public policy evaluation, institutional efficiency, energy, health, and sustainability.He has extensive experience as advisor in at the undergraduate, specialization, masters, and doctoral levels, and has continuously served as an institutional and program evaluator for the Brazilian Ministry of Education (MEC). He holds editorial positions as Editor of the journal Ciência e Natura (Probability and Statistics section) and as a member of editorial boards, in addition to acting as a reviewer for high-impact national and international scientific journals.His research agenda demonstrates both scientific and applied impact, focusing on the development of quantitative models to support decision-making, planning, and public policy evaluation, contributing to the advancement of evidence-based management in both the public and private sectors.