Post-Shrinkage Strategies in Statistical and Machine Learning for High Dimensional Data (PDF)

Dr. S. Ejaz Ahmed is Professor of Statistics and Dean of the Faculty of Math and Science at Brock University, Canada. Previously, he was Professor and Head of the Mathematics and Statistics Department at the University of Windsor, Canada and University of Regina, Canada as well as Assistant Professor at the University of the Western Ontario, Canada. He holds adjunct professorship positions at many Canadian and International universities. He has supervised more than 20 Ph.D. Students, and organized several international workshops and conferences around the globe. He is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association and held prestigious ASEAN Chair Professorship position. His areas of expertise include big data analysis, statistical learning, and shrinkage estimation strategy. Having authored several books, he edited and co-edited several volumes and special issues of scientific journals. He is Technometrics Review Editor for past ten years. Further, he is Editor and associate editor of many statistical journals. Overall, he published more than 200 articles in scientific journals and reviewed more than 100 books. Having been among the Board of Directors of the Statistical Society of Canada, he was also Chairman of its Education Committee. Moreover, he was Vice President of Communications for The International Society for Business and Industrial Statistics (ISBIS) as well as a member of the "Discovery Grants Evaluation Group" and the "Grant Selection Committee" of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada.

Feryaal Ahmed is a Management Science PhD candidate at Ivey Business School, Western University. Her research interests are in data analytics, machine learning, and revenue management, specifically in modeling pricing strategies for service industries that offer ancillary items.