Keynote Speakers

Dr. Nick Fisher is President of ISBIS (the International Society for Business and Industrial Statistics), Principal of ValueMetrics Australia (a consultancy specialising in Value-based Measurement for Risk Management, Business Improvement and Community Engagement) and Visiting Professor of Statistics at the University of Sydney.

Dr. Vijay Nair is Donald A. Darling Professor of Statistics and Professor of Industrial and Operations Engineering and Chair of the Department of Statistics at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA. He is a world-renown researcher in industrial statistics, including robust design (sometimes called Taguchi Methods), reliability engineering, and process control. He has extensive consulting experience in telecommunications, semiconductor, and automobile industries.

Dr. Dennis Lin is a University Distinguished Professor of Statistics and Supply Chain Management at Penn State. He is an elected fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA), an elected member of International Statistical Institute (ISI), a senior member of American Society of Quality (ASQ), a lifetime member of International Chinese Statistical Association (ICSA), a fellow of the Royal Statistical Society, and has received the Most Outstanding Presentation Award from SPES, ASA. He is also an adjunct professor at Department of Statistics, as well as Department of Industrial Manufacturing Engineering at Penn State. He has published near 150 professional articles. Dr. Lin is an honorary chair professor for various institutions, including XiAn Statistical Institute, Remin University of China and National Chengchi University (Taiwan). He has received Penn State Faculty Scholar Medal for outstanding research work in 2004.

Dr. Thu Pham-Gia is Professor of Statistics at the Department of Mathematics and Statistics of the University of Moncton, Canada, where he was its former chair. He is also an invited professor at several European, African and Vietnamese universities where he frequently lectures. Working in the fields of Bayesian statistics and Statistical distribution theory, he has contributed numerous research articles in international journals and served as a statistical consultant to several organizations and industries in Canada. He is a senior member of IEEE, of IIE (USA) and a fellow of the Royal Statistical Society (UK). He was awarded the Thomas L. Saaty Prize (USA) in Statistics and Operations Research in 1996, the Excellence in research recognition by NSERC ( Canada) in 2002 and the VinhDanh award by VNN (VietNam) in 2006.