Local Organizing Committee

Andreas Alfons

  • Associate Professor of Statistics at Erasmus University Rotterdam
  • Chair of the Local Organizing Committee
  • Research interests: robust statistics, multivariate and high-dimensional data analysis, statistics in socio-economics and behavioral sciences, development of statistical software

Patrick Groenen

  • Full Professor of Statistics at Erasmus University Rotterdam
  • Dean of Erasmus School of Economics
  • Research interests: data science, exploratory multivariate analysis, multidimensional scaling, visualization, optimization

Mark de Rooij

  • Full Professor of Methodology and Statistics in Psychological Research at Leiden University
  • Research interests: longitudinal categorical data using the combination of generalized linear model theory, multidimensional scaling

Carlo Cavicchia

  • Assistant Professor of Statistics at Erasmus University Rotterdam
  • Research interests: composite indicators, latent models, hierarchical models, unsupervised classification

Mikhail Zhelonkin

  • Assistant Professor of Statistics at Erasmus University Rotterdam
  • Research interests: robust statistics, causal inference

Max Welz

  • PhD candidate in Statistics at Erasmus University Rotterdam
  • Webmaster
  • Research interests: robust statistics, mathematical statistics, statistical computing

Hong Deng

  • PhD candidate in Econometrics at Erasmus University Rotterdam
  • Technical Support
  • Research interests: recommender systems, choice models, bandit problems

Utku Karaca

  • PhD candidate in Operations Research at Erasmus University Rotterdam
  • Technical Support
  • Research interests: data privacy in mathematical models, differentially private mechanisms, linear programming

Jens Klooster

  • PhD candidate in Statistics and Econometrics at Erasmus University Rotterdam
  • Technical Support
  • Research interests: robust statistics, causal inference, econometrics

Luuk van Maasakkers

  • PhD candidate in Econometrics at Erasmus University Rotterdam
  • Technical Support
  • Research interests: online retailing, recommendation systems, high-dimensional forecasting, neural networks

Sebastiaan Vermeulen

  • PhD candidate in Time Series Machine Learning at Erasmus University Rotterdam
  • Technical Support
  • Research interests: responsible deep learning, nonlinear filtering

Rick Willemsen

  • PhD candidate in Statistics and Operations Research at Erasmus University Rotterdam
  • Technical Support
  • Research interests: correspondence analysis, inverse methods, multivariate statistical methods, integer linear programming