Mohammad Arashi is a Full Professor at Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Iran and Extraordinary Professor and C2 rate researcher at University of Pretoria, South Africa. He has won several prestigious (inter)national awards and has published over 165 articles in accredited journals and co-authored 5 books. His research interest include Shrinkage and Penalized Estimation, High-Dimensional Analysis, Nonparametric Statistics, and Distribution Theory. He is an International Statistical Institute elected member.
Mina Norouzirad is a researcher in Statistics at the Center for Mathematics and Applications (NovaMath), holding a Ph.D. from Shahrood University of Technology, Iran. Previously, she served as a Postdoctoral Fellow at NovaMath, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Portugal. Dr. Norouzirad has authored several peer-reviewed publications and co-authored 1 book. Her expertise centers on innovative methodologies for statistical modeling, specializing in Shrinkage, Robust Regression, High-dimensional Analysis, and Machine Learning.