Prof. Carl Lee received his undergraduate degree from the
Department of Agronomy, at National Taiwan University. He came to the USA in
1978 and received an MA in Mathematical Science from the University of West
Florida in 1979 and a Ph.D. in Statistics in 1984 from the Department of
Statistics, Iowa State University. He is the founding chair of the Department
of Statistics, Actuarial and Data Sciences, and served as the department chair
from 2019 to 2022. He was awarded the Distinguished Professor of the Year
Award, the Michigan Association of State Universities (2002), The Deborah and
Franklin Tepper Haimo Award for Distinguished Teaching Award of Mathematics
(2019), and Distinguished Teaching Award, Mathematical Association of America,
Michigan Section (2017). His current research interests are statistical
distributions, modeling and applications, data science/analytics and applications,
and statistical education on the effectiveness of active learning and flipped
classes.
Prof. Felix Famoye is a Professor and Consulting
Statistician of the Department of Statistics, Actuarial & Data Sciences,
Central Michigan University, MI, USA. He received his B.Sc. in Statistics from
the University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria, in 1980 and his Ph.D. in Statistics
from the University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada, in 1986. He worked as a
Teaching Assistant (1983–1986), Research Associate (1986–1988), and Sessional
Instructor (1987–1988) at the Department of Math & Statistics, University of
Calgary. In 1988, he moved to Central Michigan University and was promoted to
Professor in 1996. He has been Elected Fellow of the American Statistical
Association since 2014 and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Statistical
Distributions and Applications since 2012. His fields of research interest
mainly include Statistical inference for discrete and continuous probability
models, mathematical statistics, computational statistics, regression analysis,
and generalized linear models.
