Mohammad Jafari Jozani
Department of statistics
Canada
Biography
Mohammad Jafari Jozani is currently an Associate Professor with the Department of Statistics at the University of Manitoba. Recently, he has been working on statistical learning problems with high dimensional aspects in Biostatistics, Engineering and Sustainable Energy; small area estimation as well as statistical inference with complex sampling designs using order statistics and rank information. He has applied his research in areas such as breast cancer study, BMD analysis, age determination of fish spices, and recently in the calibration problems to design simulators for training purposes in order to make surgeries safer. So far, he has successfully supervised 3 Postdocs, and graduated 5 PhD students and 4 MSc students. In 2012, Mohammad was the recipient of the prestigious Rh award, for outstanding contributions to scholarship and research in the natural science category. The Rh award is awarded to scholars who show “exceptional innovation, leadership, and promise” early in their careers. He got merit awards for research in 2011 and 2014. Mohammad has collaborations with Manitoba Hydro, Invenia company, NeuroArm, etc. and his research is supported by NSERC Discovery grant, NSERC Engage grant, CANSSI Kick start program, as well as a number of internal funds from the University of Manitoba.
Research Interest
Bayesian methods, computational statistics, nonparametric statistics, Statistical Learning, small area estimation, statistical modeling and computation for complex data, ranked set sampling, measurement error, Wind Energy
