Christian Léger

Christian Léger is Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Université de Montréal. He has served the SSC in various capacities, notably elected on the Executive as Secretary (1998-2000), elected as Regional Representative of Québec on the Board of Directors for three mandates (1991-1995; 2000-2002), appointed as Program Secretary and non-voting member of the Executive (2005-2008), Program Chair of the 2010 Annual Meeting and Local Arrangements Chair of the 2004 Annual Meeting, as well as Chair or member of many committees of the SSC. In 2009, he was awarded the SSC Distinguished Service Award. He has also served the statistical community in many other ways, notably as Chair of the Board of Directors of the National Program for Complex Data Structures, Interim Director of the Centre de recherches mathématiques (CRM), member of NSERC Statistical Sciences grant selection committee, and member of the Statistics Canada's Advisory Committee. Christian received a B.Sc. in Mathematics from McGill University in 1983 and a Ph.D. in Statistics from Stanford University in 1988. His research interests involve resampling methods, model selection, and various applications. If elected, he will put his wide experience to work for the SSC.

Tim Swartz

Tim Swartz is Professor, Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, Simon Fraser University. He completed his PhD (1986) and M. Sc (1983) degrees in Statistics at the University of Toronto and his B. Math in Statistics and Computer Science from the University of Waterloo. His research interests include Bayesian applications and computation with a growing interest in statistics in sport.

Atlantic Provinces (One to be elected)

Jeffrey Picka

Jeffrey Picka is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of New Brunswick, Fredericton. He has previously served as an Atlantic representative on the Board of the SSC and on the New Investigator's Committee. He obtained his undergraduate degrees (chemical engineering and mathematical statistics) from the University of Toronto, and his PhD in statistics from the University of Chicago. His main interests are in random set theory, spatial statistics, and methods for fitting complex stochastic simulation models for granular flows, forest fires, and other time series of disordered patterns. He is also interested in issues involving graduate education and research at smaller universities.

Pritam Ranjan

Pritam Ranjan is an Assistant professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Acadia University, Wolfville, Nova Scotia. He has served SSC as a member of the new investigator’s committee, a judge for students’ research presentation awards, and a chair for a few contributed sessions. Pritam obtained B. Stat. and M. Stat. degrees from Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India and a Ph.D. degree in Statistics from Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC. His research interests include design and analysis of computer experiments; statistical models for computer simulators; sequential designs for feature estimation; and fractional factorial designs with randomization restrictions.

Québec (Two to be elected)

Yogendra Chaubey

Yogendra P.  Chaubey is Professor and Chair of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Concordia University, Montreal. He has an M. Stat. degree from the Indian Statistical institute (1972) and Ph. D from University of Rochester (1976). He has been quite active in promoting Statistics through membership in various capacities of several statistical associations: Secretary, and 1st Vice President Montreal Chapter of American Statistical Association; President, Statistical Society of Montreal; SSC Board Member 2002-04; Vice President, Forum for Interdisciplinary Mathematics (FIM) ;  Editor, the SSC Liaison, 2004-06; Member, Committee on Career Development, American Statistical Association, 2005-2007. He has been an organizer of several academic sessions with various scholarly conferences, notably those held at Concordia University in 1991 and 2001. He is currently planning on organizing Statistics 2011 Canada to be held during July 1-4 at Concordia University. He is an elected member of International Statistical Institute since 2005.

Lajmi Lakhal

Lajmi Lakhal-Chaieb is a faculty member of the department of mathematics and statistics at Laval University. He served the SSC as a member of the local arrangements of the 2010 annual meeting committee. He also currently chairs the case studies committee. Lajmi obtained a B.Eng. degree in applied mathematics and computer science from the polytechnic institute of Grenoble (France) and a M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in statistics from Laval University and received postdoctoral training at the University of Waterloo. His main research area is multivariate survival analysis. More specifically, he is interested in modeling and estimating the association between time-to-event random variables in the presence of partially observed outcomes. He already has numerous publications in prestigious journals such as the Journal of the American Statistical Association, Biometrika, Biometrics and Statistics in Medicine.

Geneviève Lefebvre

Geneviève Lefebvre is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics at the Université du Québec à Montréal since 2008. Geneviève obtained her B.Sc.  in mathematics and M.Sc. in statistics from the Université de Montréal. She received her Ph.D in statistics from McGill University in 2007 and completed her studies with a postdoctoral training at the University of British-Columbia. Geneviève is a member of the SSC New Investigators Committee since 2008 and has co-organized a Québec-Ontario regional meeting for new professors in April 2009. Her main research interests are in computational statistics and biostatistics, with an emphasis on applied methodology.

Jean-Francois Quessy

Jean-Francois Quessy is a professor at the Departement de mathematiques et informatique of the Universite du Quebec a Trois-Rivieres since 2003. He is a member of the bilinguism committee and local representative for the SSC. Jean-Francois obtained his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in statistics from Laval University, under the supervision of Christian Genest and Bruno Remillard. He won the Pierre Robillard award of the SSC in 2005 and the Marie-Jeanne Laurent-Duhamel award of the Societe Francaise de Statistique in 2007. His research interests are in multivariate statistics, theory and application of copulas, goodness-of-fit tests and bootstrap methods.

Ontario (Two to be elected)

Alison Gibbs

Alison Gibbs, P.Stat., is a teaching-stream faculty member in the Department of Statistics at the University of Toronto. After completing her Ph.D. in 2000 at the University of Toronto, she held post-doctoral and assistant professor positions at York University. In her current position she has taught a variety of statistics and probability courses, ranging from a first-year seminar to a graduate course in statistical consulting. Her responsibilities include overseeing and advising the department's Statistical Consulting Service. She has been active in the SSC through the Statistics Education Committee (member since 2004 and chair since 2007), through the Case Studies in Data Analysis at the annual meeting (organizer 2005-2009, chair of Case Studies Awards implementation committee in 2007, member of the Case Studies Awards committee 2007-2009, and CJS guest editor for the 2009 case studies) and as an Associate Editor of Liaison. Currently she is also serving as an Ontario representative on the SSC Board of Directors.

Paul McNicholas

Paul McNicholas is Associate Professor and Associate Chair at the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Guelph. Paul obtained an M.A. in mathematics, an M.Sc. in high performance computing, and a Ph.D. in statistics from Trinity College Dublin (Ireland). His main research interests are in computational statistics, especially in the use of mixture models for clustering and classification. In 2006, Paul was the recipient of the Barrington Medal from the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland.

Kevin Thorpe

Kevin Thorpe is a biostatistician with the Applied Health Research Centre in the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute at St. Michael's Hospital and is on faculty in the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto.  He received BMath and MMath degrees in statistics from the University of Waterloo.  He has served the SSC as a member of the Committee on Membership and is currently active with the Statistical Education Committee.  The field of clinical trials is the main focus of his research activity, but he is also very interested in statistics education.

Patricia Whiridge

Patricia Whitridge was appointed to the position of Director General, Statistics and Information Management Directorate at the Canada Revenue Agency in May 2007.  Patricia graduated from the University of Ottawa in 1984 with a degree in Statistics and Computer Science. Upon graduation, Patricia accepted a position in the Methodology Branch at Statistics Canada, where she remained for 18 years. She has worked at the Royal Canadian Mounted Police setting up their Survey Centre and then at Elections Canada, where she was responsible for all statistical aspects of their program.  She has served the SSC as the regional representative for Ontario on the Board of Directors, President of the Survey Methods Section and as Chair of the Statistical Education Committee, where she continues to play an active role.

Manitoba-Saskatchewan-N.W.T.-Nunavut (One to be elected)

Dianliang Deng

Dianliang Deng obtained his Ph.D. in statistics from University of Windsor. Since July 2005, he has been an Associate Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Regina. His major research has focussed on the statistical inferences for the various types of data, which include the goodness of fit and score test in the over-dispersed and zero-inflated generalized linear models, the nonparametric maximum likelihood estimation for univariate and multivariate interval censored failure time data. Recently, his research interest is the analysis of medical cost data, temporal gene expression under the biological conditions and the model-based classification for multiple conditions on the gene expressions. His research interest also includes the limit theorems for the real-valued and Banach space-valued random variables. From July 2002, he has been serving as the local representative of the Statistical Society of Canada in the University of Regina.

Hyun (June) Lim

Hyun J. Lim is an Associate Professor of the Department of Community Health & Epidemiology at the University of Saskatchewan. She is also the Director of the Clinical Research Unit at the University. June obtained MSc. Degree in mathematics and MSc. Degree in Statistics from the Michigan State University. She obtained Ph.D. degree in Biostatistics from the Case Western Reserve University in USA. Her main research interests are in survival analysis, longitudinal data analysis, and design of clinical trials. Her interest also includes infectious disease, especially on HIV/AIDS and TB studies. She has collaborated with clinical research investigators and organizations in Canada and USA and has published numerous papers on statistical methodologies and its application to health science.

Joan Hu

X. Joan Hu is a Professor in Statistics at Simon Fraser University, Canada.
Before she joined the University in 2003, she was an Assistant Professor and then an Associate Professor at University of Memphis, and an adjunct faculty member at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. After receiving her BSc in mathematics and MSc in statistics from Peking (Beijing) University, she went on to earn her PhD in statistics at the University of Waterloo. Her statistical research interests include event history data analysis, longitudinal analysis, incomplete data, and study design and interim review in clinical trials. She has collaborated with investigators in a variety of research fields, including HIV/AIDS, cancer, public health, reliability, political science and business. Joan’s honors include the NSERC University Faculty Award (2003-2008), the Frank Wilcoxon Prize (1998) and the Pierre Robillard Award (1996). She is an elected ISI member (2007) and an elected member of ICSA Board of Directors (2010-2012). She is currently an associated editor of Canadian Journal of Statistics, Lifetime Data Analysis, and Statistics in Biosciences.

Kevin Keen

Kevin Keen is an Associate Professor in Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Northern British Columbia. He previously has held teaching and research positions with Case Western Reserve University (1999–2003), the University of Manitoba (1994–2004), and Royal Roads Military College (1989–1994). He served as Chair of the Committee of the Award for Case Studies in Data Analysis (2007 – 2010). Currently for the SSC, he serves as a member of the Awards Committee. His research interests have been focused in the development of novel methodology in the areas of multivariate statistics and sampling theory for the assessment of rater reliability and the study of the quantitative genetics of complex immune and inflammatory diseases. He has been a member of the SSC for over 20 years and a P.Stat. since 2005.

Russell Steele

Russell is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at McGill University. Russell completed his B.Sc. and M.Sc. in statistics at Carnegie Mellon University. He then obtained a Ph.D (2002) from the University of Washington. He also holds a position as an investigator at the Jewish General Hospital in the Division of Clinical Epidemiology and was the director of the Statistical Consulting Service at McGill from 2003 to 2009. His primary statistical methodological interests lie in the areas of methods for analyzing data with missing values and model selection, although he is more broadly interested in statistical applications. He has a broad range of substantive interests in medicine, publishing work in rheumatology, sports medicine, and design and interpretation of meta-analyses. In particular, he has published several papers in high-impact rheumatology journals with other members of Canadian Scleroderma Research Group over the last 5 years. Russell has also collaborated with scientists in geography and the biological sciences and has also supervised student internships with industry partners.

Mu Zhu

Mu Zhu is an Associate Professor at the University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada, and an Associate Editor of The American Statistician and of The Canadian Journal of Statistics. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Harvard University (Cambridge, MA, USA), he has a PhD in statistics from Stanford University (Stanford, CA, USA). He is interested in machine learning, multivariate analysis, health informatics, predictive analytics, and data mining.

Barbara Szyszkowicz

Barbara Szyszkowicz is a Professor at the School of Mathematics and Statistics at Carleton University. She obtained an M.Sc. degree in mathematics from Wroclaw University, Poland, and a Ph.D. degree in mathematics from Carleton University. Barbara is a recipient of the Governor General Gold Medal for her doctoral studies.  Her main research interests are approximations of partial sums type, empirical and quantile processes in weighted metrics, and change-point analysis.  Barbara is a member of the Laboratory for Research in Statistics and Probability (LRSP) at Carleton University.  She has organized (and co-organized) three international conferences (Asymptotic Methods in Probability and Statistics '97, Asymptotic Method in Stochastics '02 and a Workshop on Lorenz-Gini Type Asymptotic Methods '06) and several Scientific Days at Carleton University.