Member Profile: Jennifer Castle
How did you become a forecaster? It is a little fraudulent for me to claim that I am a forecaster! When asked to give an explicit forecast, the one thing I have learnt from my research is that...
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How did you become a forecaster? While pursuing a master’s degree in industrial engineering I was exposed to forecasting in an operations research and supply chain management course. I was also...
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Shari De Baets, Research Associate, Vlerick Business School How did you become a forecaster? I started working as a researcher on business research projects in 2010. One of the topics centered on...
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George Athanasopoulos, Associate Professor
George Athanasopoulos Why I Became a Forecaster In the last semester of my Bachelor of Commerce (Honours) at Monash University, I received an offer of employment with one of the major banks in...
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Member Profile, Peg Young
Why I became a forecaster, Peg Young It was a dark and stormy night….no, no – that’s the start of another story. This story starts in Lewiston, Maine, where I was attending Bates College, with plans to...
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Member Profile, George Boretos
Why I Became a Forecaster? Almost 20 years ago, after graduating as an electrical and computer engineer and obtaining my MBA, I was trying to solve a forecasting problem I had at work. I was trying to...
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Member Profile, Herman Stekler
Why I became a Forecaster Herman Stekler In writing this little biographical sketch, I have come to realize that reconstructing historical events as they occurred in real-time is as difficult as making...
View ArticleMember Profile, Fotios Petropoulos
How did you get started in forecasting? While studying for my bachelor’s degree in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), I was very...
View ArticleMember Profile: Dr. Tao Hong
How did you become a forecaster? My path to forecasting was more like a maze than a straight line. In 2005, I joined North Carolina State University’s Electrical Engineering doctoral program. Halfway...
View ArticleMember Profile: Bahman Rostami-Tabar
Bahman Rostami-Tabar, PhD Assistant Professor in Logistics and Operations Management, Cardiff University How did you become a forecaster? While pursuing a bachelor degree in industrial engineering I...
View ArticleMember Profile: Sarah Van der Auweraer
Sarah Van der Auweraer PhD candidate, KU Leuven, Faculty of Economics and Business https://feb.kuleuven.be/sarah.vanderauweraer How did you become a forecaster? After my master in business engineering...
View ArticleMember Profile: Yves Sagaert
Yves Sagaert University of Ghent How did you get started in forecasting? In 2012, I got in touch with the field of forecasting through my master thesis. This inspired me to start a PhD the very next...
View ArticleMember Profile: Spyros Makridakis
Spyros Makridakis University of Nicosia IIF Founding Father and Fellow How did it all begin (IIF/ISF and the JF/IJF)? Towards the end of the 1970s, I was working at INSEAD France when the editor of...
View ArticleMember Profile: Slawek Smyl
How did you become a forecaster? At some stage of my work in Microsoft, following one of the business reorganizations that happen regularly at large companies, I found myself in a rather nascent Azure...
View ArticleMember Profile: Nicolas Vandeput
How did you become a forecaster? My first experience with forecasting was back in 2017. At the time, I was working on inventory optimization at Bridgestone. We worked on using ML to create demand...
View ArticleMember Profile: Jeff Baker
How did you become a forecaster? Early in my career, I was responsible for commercializing a new product from the laboratory to small scale production. As the product demand took off, I needed to...
View ArticleMember Profile: Shidong Zhang
How did you become a forecaster? After completing my undergraduate degree in physics, I found econometrics to be an interesting field to apply my model building, math, and computer skills toward...
View ArticleMember Profile: Mary Stegmaier
How did you become a forecaster? I’ve long been interested in election and voting behavior in the US and Europe. Much of my work has focused on explaining how voters make their choices, and why...
View ArticleMember Profile: Mahdi Abolghasemi
Mahdi Abolghasemi is a lecturer in Data Science at Monash University, Australia. Mahdi has held visiting positions at Cardiff University and The University of Sydney. He has authored more than 20...
View ArticleMember Profile: Doris Chenguang Wu
Doris Chenguang Wu is Professor of tourism demand forecasting in the School of Business at the Sun Yat-sen University, China. Her research interests include tourism demand modeling and forecasting, and...
View ArticleMember Profile: Norman Swanson
Norman Swanson is a Professor of Economics specializing in Econometrics. He obtained his Ph.D. from the University of California, San Diego under the Nobel laureate, Sir Clive W.J. Granger, and has...
View ArticleMember Profile: Paula Maçaira
Paula Maçaira has a degree in Statistics, Masters’s in Electrical Engineering (Decision Support Methods), and a PhD in Industrial Engineering (Production Management). She is a professor of statistics...
View ArticleMember Profile: John Guerard, Jr.
John Guerard, Jr., Ph.D. recently retired as Director of Quantitative Research at McKinley Capital Management, LLC, a systematic global growth asset management firm based in Anchorage, AK. He now...
View ArticleMember Profile: Olga Bespalova
Dr. Olga Bespalova is an Economist at the International Monetary Fund, where she currently works on Latin America and the Caribbean economies. She covers real, monetary, financial, and external...
View ArticleMember Profile: Matthew Schneider
Prof Schneider is an Associate Professor in Decision Sciences and MIS at Drexel University. His research enables organizations to create useful data while protecting consumer data privacy. He creates...
View ArticleMember Profile: Caston Sigauke
Prof Caston Sigauke holds a PhD in Statistics from the University of the Free State, South Africa and an MSc in Operations Research from the National University of Science and Technology, Zimbabwe. He...
View ArticleMember Profile: Niles Perera
Niles Perera is a passionate forecasting researcher based in Sri Lanka who is motivated to contribute to his community through research and teaching. He is the Professor in Supply Chain Management at...
View ArticleMember Profile: Yanfei Kang
Yanfei Kang is an Associate Professor at the School of Economics and Management of Beihang University and Head of the Department of Quantitative Economics and Business Statistics. She received her...
View ArticleMember Profile: Laurent Ferrara
Laurent Ferrara has been elected in July 2024 as President of the International Institute of Forecasters. He has been full Professor of International Economics at SKEMA Business School since September...
View ArticleMember Profile: Ulrich Gunter
Dr. Ulrich Gunter is a Full Professor of Tourism Economics at the School of Tourism and Service Management at Modul University Vienna and also acts as the Dean of the Graduate Degree Programs at his...
View ArticleMember Profile: Feng Li
Dr. Feng Li born in Erdos, Inner Mongolia, China, joined the Guanghua School of Management at Peking University in 2024 as an Associate Professor in the Department of Business Statistics and...
View ArticleMember Profile: Jue Wang
Jue Wang is a Professor at the Center for Forecasting Science, Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences. She currently serves as Deputy Director of the Center for...
View ArticleMember Profile: Yongmiao Hong
Yongmiao Hong is currently a Kwan Chao-Chih Chief Research Fellow at Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the Dean of School of Economics and Management,...
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