Gauss Moutinho Cordeiro (born April 17, 1952) is a Brazilian engineer, mathematician and statistician[1] who has made significant contributions to the theory of statistical inference, mainly through asymptotic theory and applied probability.

He received his PhD in Statistics in January 1983 at Imperial College London supervised by David Roxbee Cox and Peter McCullagh.

[2] Currently, Cordeiro is a Class A researcher of the Brazilian Research Council-CNPq, Full Professor at Federal University of Pernambuco (Brazil) and Member of the Graduate Program in Statistics at the same university.

He has published more than 360 research articles in international scientific journals with referee practice (2015) and supervised more than 60 MSc dissertations and DSc theses.

In 2010, Cordeiro awarded from the Brazilian Government the National Medal for Scientific Merit at the order of Comendador.