President Email: chris.tsokos@ifnaworld.org Home: http://www.math.usf.edu/~profcpt Dr. Tsokos is Distinguished University Professor of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of South Florida. He obtained his undergraduate degree in Engineering Sciences and his Master of Science in Mathematics from the University of Rhode Island and his Doctoral Degree in Probability and Statistics form the University of Connecticut. Dr. Tsokos is the author of more than 300 publications in academic journals. He has writtne 15 textbooks and research monographs and more than 40 technical publications. He served as Doctoral Advisor for more than 40 students from twelve different countries. He has served and is currently serving in more than 12 academic international journals. Dr. Tsokos has lectured in several countries with extensive invited lecture tours in the P.R. of China, Turkey, the Russian Academy of Science, and India among others. He has been an advisor and consultant for NASA, NSF, NIH, ONR, US Air Force, US Army, EPA, ACS, as well as several Fortune 500 companies. He is a member of several professional societies, which include a Fellow of the American Statistical Association and the International Statistical Institute, among others. He is the recipient of several distinguished honors and awards for his professional, educational and humanitarian accomplishments. Vice President and Director of IFNA Journals and Publications Email: bongjin.choi@ndsu.edu Bong-Jin Choi was born in Busan, South Korea. He received the B.S. degrees in Computer Science from Kyungnam University, South Korea and received the Master and Ph.D. degree in Statistics in University of South Florida, Tampa in 2014. After earning Ph. D., he joined the UNC Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill as big health care data manager. He joined Department of Statistics and Department of Public Health in North Dakota State University as an assistant professor in 2018. He has been teaching several courses for under-graduated and graduated students such as Applied Regression Models, Introductory Biostatistics, Biostatistics, and Survival Analysis. He has also supervised several M.S. and Ph.D. thesis. His current research interests include Machine Learning and Big Health Care Data Analysis. He has published more than 10 scientific papers and he is serving Managing Editor in Global Journal of Mathematical Sciences and Director of Journals in International Federation of Nonlinear Analysts. Vice President Email: yongxu@ferris.edu Dr. Xu is an associate professor in Data mining at Ferris State University since fall 2017. He is founder of west Michigan Artificial Intelligence research lab. Dr. Xu got his Ph.D. degree from University of South Florida in 2011. He then joined Radford University in Virginia as a tenure-track assistant professor in 2011. He taught a variety of undergraduate classes in data analysis since 2011. He is interested in innovative teaching methods. He took numerous training in online class, flipped class, student-centered learning. He designed and created several classes including R class, SAS, and design of experiment class. He proposed and taught several new classes at Ferris State university including: Python, SQL, and Tableau classes. His research interest focuses on Machine learning, Big data, Business data, Environment data, and health data analysis. He had done some research related with big data, time series and statistical models. He had worked for Oak Ridge National Laboratory, American Cancer Society and H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center. He had published more than a dozen research papers and made more than 20 professional presentations. He had applied for ten research grants (total more than 10 million dollars) and got four of them funded. In 2020, he had been awarded $339,000 research grant. He had made numerous consultations works for other researchers in both academic and industry (total 22). He is the Editor for Open Journal of Applied Sciences (OJAppS) and reviewer for seven peer reviewed journals. Secretary Email: rwooten@ifnaworld.org Home: http://www.acceber.net/Pedagogue Dr. Wooten is president of The Pedagogue, a Private Educational and Research Company that serves the public needs. She reived her Bachelors and Masters Degree in Mathematics and Doctoral Degree in Statistics from the University of South Florida. She has taught both graduate and undergraduate courses at USF during the past several years. Dr. Wooten is an interdisciplinary scientist in developing methematical and statistical models for GLOBAL WARMING, hurricanes, health sciences, volcanic studies and ecological processes, among others. She has an extensive list of publications in her area of research interests. Dr. Wooten is a popular lecturer and has made several research presentations. Her philanthropic services in mathematical sciences extend to her being a tutor and academic advisor at the award winning Urban Scholars Outreach Program at USF for underprivileged students. She is also a co-founder of the educational Dr. A.N.V. Rao Gurukulam Program. She is a member of several professional societies and the author of several techinal publications that promote quality undergraduate teaching in mathematical sciences. Director of International Affairs Email: asaghafi@mail.usf.edu Dr. Abolfazl Saghafi is a doctoral candidate at the University of South Florida and a distinguished expert on entropy measures for Weibull parameters and k order Poisson models. Prior to joining USF, Dr. Saghafi earned his doctoral degree in Iran and was on faculty in the Iranian university system teaching undergraduate mathematics and statistics courses for five years. Dr. Saghafi's current work expands his previous methods to machine learning algorithms and high dimensional data. Dr. Saghafi's experience working across the globe on diverse problems serves as the foundation for his many duties coordinating IFNA's global efforts. Director of Information Technologies Email: dooyoungkim@mail.usf.edu Doo Young Kim is a doctoral degree candidate in Statistics at the department of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of South Florida. His doctoral research is in statistical analysis and modeling of environmental and health problems. Mr. Kim’s doctoral research is under the supervision of Prof. Chris P. Tsokos. He received his B.A. in Business Administration from the Kyungwon University in South Korea, and his M.A. in Statistics from the Ball State University, Indiana. He has been teaching high school Mathematics for 15 years before coming to the United States and he received graduate teaching award of Mathematical Sciences at the Ball State University with his M.A. degree. He is currently teaching courses in statistical computing and probability as a graduate teaching associate. Mr. Kim has presented several papers at professional meetings and has submitted some of his results on the subjects of his interest. IFNA Academic Program Committee Email: tsharaf@mail.usf.edu Assistant Professor of Statistics at the Slippery Rock University  Email: rkafle@mail.usf.edu Assistant Professor of Statistics at the Sam Houston State University  Email: nkhanal@ut.edu Associate Professor of Mathematics at the University of Tampa  Email: sarasepa@mail.usf.edu |
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