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Catarina Loureiro is a PhD student from the Doctoral Program in Statistics and Stochastic Processes at Instituto Superior Técnico since October 2022. She is also a research fellow from the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT). Previously, she was a Data Analyst at Fidelidade Companhia de Seguros, from 2020 to 2022. Furthermore, she completed her Master's in Mathematics and Applications in 2019, and her Bachelor's in Applied Mathematics and Computation in 2017 from Instituto Superior Técnico.
Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Catarina Padrela Loureiro

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
6715-294A-6512
ORCID iD
0009-0001-9464-5824

Email addresses

  • catarinapadrela@tecnico.ulisboa.pt (Professional)

Websites

Knowledge fields

  • Exact Sciences - Mathematics - Statistics and Probability

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English
Education
Degree Classification
2022/10/01 - 2026
Ongoing
Programa Doutoral em Estatística e Processos Estocásticos (Doutoramento)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico Departamento de Matemática, Portugal

Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Matemática Computacional e Estocástica, Portugal
"Anomaly Detection Methods for Complex Data: Applications to Internet Traffic and Financial Markets" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2017/09 - 2019/12/18
Concluded
Matemática e Aplicações (Mestrado)
Major in Probabilidades e Estatística
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico Departamento de Matemática, Portugal
"Outlier Detection in Functional Time Series" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
18
2014/09 - 2017/07/07
Concluded
Matemática Aplicada e Computação (Licenciatura)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico Departamento de Matemática, Portugal
15
Projects

Contract

Designation Funders
2019/06/19 - 2019/12/17 Análise Estatística Robusta de Dados Financeiros
FARO PTDC/EGE-ECO/30535/2017
Research Fellow
Associação do Instituto Superior Técnico para a Investigação e Desenvolvimento, Portugal
Associação para a Inovação e Desenvolvimento da FCT
Outputs

Publications

Book chapter
  1. Catarina P. Loureiro; M. Rosário Oliveira; Paula Brito; Lina Oliveira. "Air Quality Data Analysis with Symbolic Principal Components". 2025.
    10.1007/978-3-031-68949-9_25
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. Loureiro, Catarina. "Outlier Detection in Functional Time Series". Master, Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico Departamento de Matemática, 2019. https://fenix.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/downloadFile/1689244997260668/Thesis.pdf.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2025/06/10 Explainable Outlier Detection in Interval-Valued Data Using a Robust Covariance Estimator Symbolic Data Analysis Workshop 2025
University of Zagreb, Faculty of Organization and Informatics (Varaždin, Croatia)
2025/05/19 Minimum Covariance Determinant Estimator and Outlier Detection for Interval-valued Data International Conference of Robust Statistics 2025
University of Trento, University of Parma, University of Milan-Bicocca and European Commission's Joint Research Centre (Stresa, Italy)
2025/04/25 Outlier Detection Based on the Minimum Covariance Determinant Estimator for Interval-Valued Data Séminaire de Statistique
Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers (CNAM) (Paris, France)
2024/04/12 A robust covariance matrix estimator for interval-valued data Lisbon Young Mathematicians Conference 2024
Instituto Superior Técnico (Lisbon, Portugal)
2023/11/03 Air Quality Data Analysis with Symbolic Principal Components Symbolic Data Analysis Workshop 2023
(Paris, France)
2023/10/13 Air Quality Data Analysis with Symbolic Principal Components XXVI Congresso da Sociedade Portuguesa de Estatística
Sociedade Portuguesa de Estatística (Guimarães, Portugal)
2019/11/07 Functional outlier detection with dynamic functional principal component analysis: Application to finance XXIV Congresso da Sociedade Portuguesa de Estatística
Sociedade Portuguesa de Estatística (Amarante, Portugal)

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role)
Institution / Organization
2024/04/02 - 2024/04/14 Lisbon Young Mathematicians Conference 2024 - LYMC 2024 (2024/04/12 - 2024/04/13)
Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico Departamento de Matemática, Portugal

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event
Event name
Institution / Organization
2024/06/23 - 2024/06/29 Since 1998, ECMI (the European Consortium for Mathematics in Industry) has been organizing annual Modelling Weeks for students. During these events, participants from various parts of Europe work in small groups to solve real problems, with the help of instructors. At the end of the week, they present their results and prepare a report. The main objective is to train students in Mathematical Modelling and develop collaboration and communication skills in an international environment.
Workshop
ECMI Modelling Week 2024
Università degli Studi di Catania, Italy
2024/04/20 - 2024/04/20 The Sicence Fair of the Open Day at Instituto Superior Técnico showcases research and innovation projects in an interactive exhibition featuring experiments led by researchers and students. The theme presented was "Data Science with Intervals".
Exhibition
Dia Aberto do Técnico 2014
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2025/02 - 2025/07 Biostatistics - Lab Classes (Mestrado) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico Departamento de Matemática, Portugal
2024/09 - 2025/02 Multivariate Analysis - Lab Classes (Mestrado) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico Departamento de Matemática, Portugal
2024/09 - 2025/02 Statistical Methods in Data Mining - Lab Classes (Mestrado) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico Departamento de Matemática, Portugal