Officers Executive Committee IASC 2025-2027

President: Paulo Canas Rodrigues (Brazil)
Professional position: Professor, Department of Statistics, Federal University of Bahia (Brazil)
Research interests: Statistical learning, Time series and singular spectrum analysis, Robust statistics, Big data and visualization, Statistical genetics.
E-mail: paulocanas@gmail.com
Homepage: https://www.paulocanas.org
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President-Elect: Francesco Palumbo (Italy)
Professional position: Professor, Department of Political Science at the University of Naples Federico II
Research interests: Analysis of complex data structures, Data mining, Multivariate analysis.
E-mail: francesco.palumbo@unina.it
Homepage: https://www.docenti.unina.it/francesco.palumbo 
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Past-President: Chun-houh Chen (Taiwan)
Professional position: Distinguished Research Fellow, Institute of Statistical Science, Academia Sinica (Taiwan), Secretary-General, Academia Sinica (Taiwan)
Research interests: Biobanking and Smart Health, Bioinformatics, Data/Information Visualization, Dimension Reduction, Matrix Visualization, Multivariate Statistical Methods, Pattern Recognition
E-mail: cchen@stat.sinica.edu.tw
Homepage: https://gap.stat.sinica.edu.tw/
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Scientific Secretary: Ann Maharaj (Australia)
Professional position: Adjunct Associate Professor, Econometrics & Business Statistics, Monash University, Australia
Research interests: Time Series Classification, Spectral Analysis, Wavelet Analysis, Fuzzy Classification, Interval Time Series Analysis
E-mail: eamaharaj@gmail.com 
Homepage: https://research.monash.edu/en/persons/ann-maharaj
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Treasurer: Zdeněk Hlávka (Czech Republic)
Professional position: Associate Professor, Department of Probability and Mathematical Statistics, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
Research interests: Multivariate statistics
E-mail: hlavka@karlin.mff.cuni.cz
Homepage: https://www.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~hlavka/
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Webmaster: Han-Ming Hank Wu (Taiwan)
Professional position: Associate Professor, Department of Statistics, National Chengchi University (Taiwan)
Research interests: Symbolic data analysis, Matrix visualization, High-dimensional data analysis E-mail: wuhm@g.nccu.edu.tw
Homepage: https://hmwu.idv.tw/
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ISI WSC Conference Officer: Ray-Bing Chen (Taiwan)
Professional position: Professor, Department of Statistics & Institute of Data Science, National Cheng Kung University (NCKU, Taiwan)
Research interests: Statistical and machine learning, Statistical modeling, Bayesian variable (feature) selection, Computer Experiment, Optimal design
E-mail: rbchen@ncku.edu.tw
Homepage: https://sites.google.com/view/ray-bingchenswebsite/home
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ISI Nominations Officer: Philip Leung-ho Yu (Hong Kong, China)
Professional position: Professor and Head, Department of Mathematics and Information Technology, Education University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong, China)
Research interests: AI and big data analytics, Ranking methods, Time series analysis, Financial data analysis, Risk management, Statistical trading
E-mail: plhyu@eduhk.hk
Homepage: https://www.eduhk.hk/en/experts/professor-yu-leung-ho-philip
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Publication Officer: Ching-Ti Liu (USA)
Professional position: Professor, Department of Biostatistics at the Boston University School of Public Health.
Research interests: Statistical genetics, Genomics, Biostatistics, Bioinformatics
E-mail: ctliu@bu.edu
Homepage: https://www.bu.edu/sph/profile/ching-ti-liu/
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Summer School Officer: Monday Osagie Adenomon (Nigeria)
Professional position: Associate Professor, Department of Statistics, Nasarawa State University, Keffi, Nigeria
Research interests: Econometrics, Time series analysis, Financial time series analysis, spatial statistics, Machine learning and interdisciplinary satistical analysis.
E-mail: adenomonmo@nsuk.edu.ng
Homepage: https://mendeley.com/authors/57215507440/
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Young Statisticians Representative: Ágatha Rodrigues (Brazil)
Professional position: Assistant professor, Department of Statistics at the Federal University of Espírito Santo, Vitoria, Brazil. 
Research interests: Bayesian statistics, Biostatistics, Data science, reliability analysis, survival analysis.
E-mail: agatha.rodrigues@ufes.br
Homepage: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Agatha-Rodrigues‪
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IASC Membership Officer: Rosaria Lombardo (Italy)
Professional position: Professor of Statistics and Machine Learning, University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”, Naples, Italy
Research interests: Data mining and regression tools, Linear and non-linear multidimensional data analysis, Statistical quality control.
E-mail: rosaria.lombardo@unicampania.it
Homepage: https://www.economia.unicampania.it/dipartimento/docenti?MATRICOLA=057444 Research Gate
Data Analysis Competition Officer: Carlo Cavicchia (Netherlands)
Professional position: Assistant Professor in Department of Econometrics, Erasmus School of Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands.
Research interests: Hierarchical models, Latent variable models, Non-parametric statistics, Composite indicators, Unsupervised classification
E-mail: cavicchia@ese.eur.nl
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ISI Short Course and Outreach Officer: Ayubu Okango (Kenya)
Professional position: Senior Lecturer School of Pure and Applied Sciences, Muranga University of Technology, Kenya
Research interests: Statistical computing, Advanced statistical modeling, Data science
E-mail: anapapa@mut.ac.ke
Homepage: https://profiles.mut.ac.ke/personnel/dr-ayubu-anapapa-okango-phd/
Communications and Social Media Officer: Karel Hron (Czech Republic)
Professional position: Professor, Department of Mathematical Analysis and Applications of Mathematics, Palacký University, Olomouc, Czech Republic
Research interests: Statistical analysis of compositional data, Multidimensional statistics, Probability density data analysis, Functional data analysis
E-mail: karel.hron@upol.cz
Homepage: https://kma.upol.cz/en/katedra/vizitka/hron/
Webinar Officer: Verónica González López (Brazil)
Professional position: Professor of Statistics at the University of Campinas (Unicamp), Brazil.  Research interests: Theory of copulas, Bayesian inference, Iinference in Markov process
E-mail: veronica@ime.unicamp.br
Homepage: https://www.ime.unicamp.br/~veronica/
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ARS Chairperson: Donguk Kim (Korea)
Professional position: Professor, College of Economics, Sungkyunkwan University, Korea Research interests: Biostatistics, Medical statistics, Clinical statistics, Categorical data analysis, Survival analysis
E-mail: dkim@skku.edu
Homepage: https://shorturl.at/iVbuU
ERS Chairperson: Ana Belén Ramos-Guajardo (Spain)
Professional position: Professor of Statistics, University of Oviedo
Research interests: Statistics and Operations Research
E-mail: ramosana@uniovi.es
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LARS Chairperson: Alba Martinez-Ruiz (Chile)
Professional position: Visiting Professor CentraleSupelec, France
Research interests: Statistics, Multi-block analysis, Patent value
E-mail: alba.martinez.ruiz@gmail.com
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