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

• Ph.D. student in Statistics at Erasmus University Rotterdam
• Webmaster
• Research interests: computational statistics, robust statistics, mathematical statistics