Patrícia Xufre is Associate Professor of Quantitative Methods. She holds a PhD in Statistics and Operations Research from the Faculty of Science of the University of Lisbon (PhD Thesis: Neurocomputational methods to support trading decisions systems). She has earned her Master in Operations Research from the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon (Master Thesis: Forecasting non-stationary time series through neural networks).
Selected publications: Xufre, Patrícia, Rodrigues, António José, "Investment strategies based on supervised learning"?, Proceedings of 2011 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence for Financial Engineering. IEEE (2011), pp. 132-139. Xufre Casqueiro, Patrícia, Rodrigues, António José, "Neuro-dynamic trading methods"?, European Journal of Operational Research 175 (2006), pp. 1400-1412.
She teaches Modelling and Optimization, Calculus, Algebra and Data Analysis in the undergraduate courses.