Affiliation: Universidade Federal do ABC (UFABC)

João Ricardo Sato is a statistician, a professor, and a coordinator of the Research Unit for Cognition and Complex Systems at Universidade Federal do ABC. Dr. Sato's research combines topics from a wide range of disciplines, such as neurodevelopment, brain connectivity, and artificial intelligence. His main neuroscience research in education applies Near Infrared Spectroscopy (fNIRS) to record multiple brain activities and study teaching and learning processes. Dr. Sato is also a coordinator of the Interdisciplinary Unit for Applied Neuroscience and he has more than 330 Peer-reviewed published papers.