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EDUCATION

     
       
  Ph. D. Mathematical Statistics (Thesis Adviser: D A S Fraser) 1969 University of Toronto
  M. S. Mathematical Statistics 1967 University of Toronto
M. Sc. Statistics 1957 University of Dhaka
B. Sc (Honors) Statistics 1956 University of Dhaka
       
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FELLOWSHIPS IN PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS/FOUNDER    
  Fellow American Statistical Association
  Fellow Institute of Statisticians
  Fellow Royal Statistical Society
  Expatriate Fellow Bangladesh Academy of Sciences
  Founding President North America-Bangladesh Statistical Association (NABSA)
  Co-Founder Midwest Biopharmaceutical Statistics Workshop (MBSW)
 
     
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MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES

American Statistical Association (ASA) (Life Member)
Royal Statistical Society (Life Member)
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International Statistical Institute (Life Member)
The Institute of Mathematical Statistics (Life Member)
Bangladesh Statistical Association (Life Member)
Islamic Countries Society of Statistical Sciences (ICSOSS) (Life Member)
Sigma Xi - The Scientific Research Society (Until 2006)
Phi Kappa Phi (Until 2006)
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Bernoulli Society (Until 2004)
Phi Kappa Phi (Until 2006)
 
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NOTABLE HONORS
 
  • Statistics in the Twenty-First Century: Special Volume in Honour of Dr. Mir Masoom Ali, George and Frances Ball Distinguished Professor of Statistics on the Occasion of his Seventy-Fifth Birthday Anniversary, Pakistan Journal of Statistics and Operation Research, Vol. 8 No. 3, July 2012. 

    The  443-page Special Volume contains 31 refereed articles written by 78 authors and coauthors. The authors and coauthors are: Aylin Alin; Gauss M. Cordeiro, Renato J. Cintra, Leandro C. Rêgo, Edwin M. M. Ortega; Nirian Martin, Leandro Pardo, D. A. S. Fraser, Glen Meeden, Athanassios Kondylis, Ali S. Hadi, Mark Werner, Ibrahim A. Ahmad, N. Herawati, A. S. Hedayat, Bikas K. Sinha, Li Wei, Serge B. Provost, Deepak Sanjel, Susan Z. Sheng, D.A.S. Fraser, Uyen Hoang, Kexin Ji, Xufei Li, Li Li, Wei Lin, Jie Su Bimal K. Sinha, Leonid Kopylev, John Fox, Muhammad Qaiser Shahbaz, Saman Shahbaz, Nadeem Shafique Butt, Sahadeb Sarkar, Ayanendranath Basu, Arjun K. Gupta, Jessica K. Kohlschmidt, Elizabeth A. Stasny, Douglas A. Wolfe, Dale Umbach, S. Rao Jammalamadaka, Malay Ghosh, Jihyun Song, Asheber Abebe, Joseph W. McKean, Huybrechts F. Bindele, Fikri Akdeniz, Hans Joachim Werner, A. H. Khan, Imtiyaz A. Shah, Manisha Pal, Hare Krishna Maity, M. Ataharul Islam, Rafiqul I. Chowdhury, Karan P. Singh, Ramesh C. Gupta, H.C. Taneja, Mohammed Nasser, Nor Aishah Hamzah, Md. Ashad Alam, Jungsoo Woo, Amer Khurshid, Zubair A. Al-Hemari, Shahid Kamal, A.H.M. Rahmatullah Imon, Manos C. Roy, S. K. Bhattacharjee, Anwar H. Joarder, Gencay Ýncesu, Barıs Asıkgil, Müjgan Tez, Elizabeth Hansen, Kung-Sik Chan, Nils Chr. Stenseth, Mushfiqur Rashid, Joseph W. McKean and John D. Kloke.

  • Festschrift in honor of George and Frances Ball Distinguished Professor Mir Masoom Ali on the occasion of his retirement, May 2007. The 363-page Festschrift contains 40 refereed papers. Authors/co-authors include: Charles B. Sampson, Barry C. Arnold, P.L. Graham, S. N. MacEachern, Douglas A. Wolfe, Inger Pearson, Harry Khamis, M. Ataharul Islam, Rafiqul I. Chowdhury, Shahariar Huda, M.I. Ageel, David A. Dicky, Sangil Hwang, L. Benkherouf, F. AlQallaf, Abdus S. Wahed, The Minh Luong, Jong-Hyeon Jeong, Manisha Pal, Nripesh K. Mandal, Rasul A. Khan, Mezbahur Rahman, Larry M. Pearson, Guido Knapp, Pranab K. Mitra, Bimal K. Sinha, Md. Jobayer Hossain, Wayne A. Woodward, Henry L. Gray, Zhewen Fan, Hernando Ombao, Fang Li, Jyotirmoy Sarkar, JungsooWoo, John T. Chen, Holmes Finch, Molly M. Jameson, Julius Horvath, Balint Herczeg, M. Forhad Hossain, Anwar H. Joarder, M. Kamruj Jaman Bhuiyan, Manindra K. Roy, M. Farouq Imam, Murugason Kalliana, Mahendran Shitan Gounder, A.H.M. Rahmatullah Imon, P.P.B. Eggermont, V. N. LaRiccia, Tanweer J. Shapla, John A. Beekman, Boris Shulkin, Shlomo Sawilosky, Munir Ahmad, Ayesah Roohi, Glen Meeden, Jeffrey J. Green, Courtenay C. Stone, Abrea Zegeye, Thomas A. Charles, William F. Hunt, Jr., Kimberly Weems, William Swallow, Andrew Moore, Nagambal Shah, Monica Stephens, Mir Ghulam Talpur, Iffat Zameer, Kyoungah See, A. John Bailor, Karon Klipple, R. L. Eubank, Kristofer Jennings, Lehana Thabane, B.M. Golam Kibria, S. Rao Jammalamadaka, Vasudevan Mangalam, Asheber Abebe, Joseph W. McKean, R. Ayesah Ali, and Mir Maswood Ali.
     

  • Plaque for Outstanding Dedication 1969 to 2007, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Ball State University, May 2007.
     
  • Appointed George and Frances Ball Distinguished Professor of Statistics Emeritus and Professor Emeritus of Mathematical Sciences, Ball State University, June 2007.
 
  • Meritorious Service Award, 30th Anniversary of the Midwest Biopharmaceutical Statistics Workshop (MBSW), 2007.
     
  • A Two-day Statistics Conference was held in honor of Professor Mir Masoom Ali on the occasion of his retirement, Ball State University, May 18-19, 2007.
     
  • Meritorious Service Award of the Midwest Biopharmaceutical Statistics Workshop (MBSW), 2007, in recognition of my role as Co-Founder which is cosponsored by the Biopharmaceutical Section of the American Statistical Association.
 
  • Outstanding Achievement Award, Bangladesh Community of Indiana, Indianapolis, August 5, 2007.
     
  • Special Issue of the International Journal of Statistical Sciences in Honour of Professor Mir Masoom Ali on the occasion of his 70th Birthday Anniversary, Volume 6, 2007. The 365-page volume (editor: Ali S. Hadi) contains 30 refereed papers. The authors/co-authurs of the papers Include: A.H.M. Rahmatullah Imon, Abdus S. Wahed, M. Ahsanullah, Chris P. Tsokos, Manindra K. Roy, M. Emdadul Haque, Biswajit C. Paul, M. I. Ageel, Anwer Khurshid, Munir Ahmad, D.A.S. Fraser, Amir Naderi, S. Huda, F. Alqallaf, Jungsoo Woo, Gary G. Koch, Maura E. Stokes, Munni Begum, Pranab K. Sen, Dale Umbach, S.N. Nagayev, V.I. Chebotarev, Manisha Pal, Asis K. Chattopadhyay, Hatem A. Howlader, Anwar M. Hossain, Oleg Makhnin, Daniel Bruce, Hans Nyquist, Mezbahur Rahamn, B.M. Golam Kibria, Saralees Nadarajah, Jarkko Isotalo, Simo Puntanen, George P. H. Styan, Gregory V. Stark, Douglas A. Wolfe, N. Unnikrishnan Nair, R. P. Gupta, Yadolah Dodge, Giuseppe Melfi, O. C. Joseph, Alex Tahnnippara, D.K. Ghosh, S. C. Bagui, Premadhis Das, Nripsh K. Mandal, Bikas Sinha, Ellinor Fackie Fornius, M. Nasser, Paul Davis, Md. Rafiqul Islam, Md. Korban Ali, Md. Nurul Islam, Md. Atikur Rahman, L. Xie, B. MacNeill, M. Nurul Haque Mollah..

 
  • Awarded Gold Medal by the Islamic Countries Society of Statistical Sciences (ISOSS) for outstanding contribution to Statistics and ISOSS affairs, 2005.
     
  • Awarded  "Our Pride Award"  by the Bangladeshi-American Foundation, Inc. (BAFI) at the Bangladeshi-American Convention held on May 28, 2005 in Greater Washington, D.C. Metro area, in recognition of distinguished achievements in the field of Statistics.
     
 
  • Special Issue of the Pakistan Journal of Statistics in the Honour of Prof. Dr. Mir Masoom Ali, Volume 20, January, 2004.
     http://www.bsu.edu/update/article/0,1898,38104-5107-20427,00.html . The 209-page special volume contains 17 papers.  The authors/co-authors of the papers include: B. M. Golam Kibria, Paul S. Horn, Douglas A. Wolfe, Sukuman Sarikavanij, Montip Tiensuan, Bimal Sinha, Herbert Heien, William A. Baumann, Mezbahur Rahman, R. L. Eubank, Muhammad Hanif, M. Samiuddin, Muhammad Qaiser Shahbaz, Dale Umbach, Md. Rezaul Karim, Kazuyuki Suzuki, Dinesh S. Bhoj, S. J. Claasen, J.W. Joubert, V.S.S. Yadavalli, Nizam Uddin, Ibrahim Rahimov, Musawar Malik, C. K. Podder, M.K. Roy, K.J. Bhuiyan, A. Karim, M. Ahsanullah, Abdul H. Chowdhury, Nassr S. Fard, D.A.S Fraser, A. Wong, J. Wu, Munir Ahmad, Ayesha Roohi.
     

 
  • Thirty-five Years Service Recognition, Ball State University, 2004.
     
 
  • Mir Masoom Ali: A Tale of a Renowned Bengali (in Bengali).  Taroka Kagoj - A Special Weekly Supplement of Ajker Kagoj with feature article on Professor Mir Masoom Ali and with his photo on the cover, Dhaka, Bangladesh, March 2, 2003.
 
  • A Renowned Bengali: Dr. Mir Masoom Ali (in Bengali).  Chhutir Diney - A Special Weekly Supplement of Prothom Alo with feature article on Professor Mir Masoom Ali and with his photo on the cover, Dhaka, Bangladesh, February 1, 2003.
 
 
  • Special Issue of the Journal of Statistical Studies to Celebrate the 65th Birthday of Professor Mir Masoom Ali, October 2002. The 320-page Special Volume contains 24-refereed papers and two tribute articles.  The authors/coauthors of the papers are Robert Hogg; D.A.S. Fraser and A. Wang; R. L. Eubank; Ibrahim Ahmad; Gregory Stark and Douglas Wolfe; Gary Koch; Robert Staudte; A.S. Hadi and Hans Nyquist; Bikas Sinha and Bimal Sinha; Amit Kshirsagar, Pil Park and Anant Kshirsagar; Yuehui Wu, Ming-Hui Chen and Dipak Dey; Subir Bhandari and Ayendranath Basu; Senin Banga, G. P. Patil and Charles Taillie; Rahmatullah Imon; Nizam Uddin; Dale Umbach; Manisha Pal and Bimal Sinha; Arjun Gupta and D.G. Kabe; V.K. Srivastava, Aman Ullah and M. Kumar; Malay Ghosh; M.I. Ageel, Anwer Khurshid and Fawziah Al-Ghoreis; M. Ahsanullah; and Sanat Sarkar; and tributes by M. Forhad Hossain and Dale Umbach.

       

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  • Meritorious Service Award, 2002, in recognition of my role as Co-Founder of the Midwest Biopharmaceutical Statistics Workshop which is cosponsored by the Biopharmaceutical Section of the American Statistical Association.
 
  • Recognition for Thirty Years Service at Ball State University, 1999.
     
  •  Meritorious Service Award, 1997, in recognition of my role as Co-Founder, Local Arrangements Chair (1978-97), and Program Co-Chair (1987, 1992, 1997, 2007) of the Midwest Biopharmaceutical Statistics Workshop which is cosponsored by the Biopharmaceutical Section of the American Statistical Association.
     
  • Teacher of the Week, Daily News, Ball State University Students Newspaper, April 18, 1997.
     
  • Recognition for Twenty-five Years Service at Ball State University, 1994.
     
  • Vice Chair - District 4, American Statistical Association Council of Chapters, 1992, 1993, 1994.
     
  • Member, Board of Governors, American Statistical Association Council of Chapters, 1992, 1993, 1994.
     
  • Representative, American Statistical Association Council of Chapters, 1990 - 92.
     
  •  Recognition for Twenty Years Service at Ball State University, 1989.
     
  • Vice President, Central Indiana Chapter of the American Statistical Association, 1988-90
     
  • Was awarded a plaque by the Ball State Muslim Students Association, 1990, in recognition of service and dedication to the students and the Islamic Community at Ball State University.
     
     
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EMPLOYMENT  
   
  June 16, 2007 - Present: George and Frances Ball Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Statistics and Professor Emeritus of Mathematical Sciences, Ball State University
  2000  - June 15, 2007: George and Frances Ball Distinguished Professor of Statistics and Professor of Mathematical Sciences, Ball State University
  1978 - 2000: Professor of Mathematical Sciences, Ball State University
  1974 - 78: Associate Professor of Mathematical Sciences, Ball State University
  1969 - 74: Assistant Professor of Mathematical Sciences, Ball State University
  1958 - 69: Government of Pakistan, Dhaka, Karachi, Lahore, and Rawalpindi.Government of Pakistan, Dhaka, Karachi, Lahore, and Rawalpindi.
  1957 : Socio-Economic Board, University of Dhaka, Dhaka, Bangladesh
   
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VISITING APPOINTMENTS AND INVITATIONS

  April 1999: Visiting Professor, Department of Statistics and Operations Research, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
  December 1993: Invited Guest Scholar, Institute of Statistical Mathematics, Tokyo, Japan
  September 6, 1993 - December 2, 1993: Visiting Professor, Yeungnam University, Korea
  November 1991: Visiting Scientist, Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta, India
  September 1991- December 1991: Visiting Professor, Department of Statistics, Jahangirnagar University, Savar, Dhaka, Bangladesh
  December 1983 - February 1984: Visiting Professor, Department of Statistics, Jahangirnagar University, Savar, Dhaka, Bangladesh
  December 1983 - February 1984: Visiting Professor, Department of Statistics, University of Dhaka, Dhaka, Bangladesh
  August 1982: Institute of Statistical Research and Training, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh.
  March - May 1978: Visiting Scholar, Department of Statistics, Purdue University, W. Lafayette
  1972 -73: Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of Windsor, Canada
   
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CONTACT INFORMATION
     
    Department of Mathematical Sciences
    Ball State University
    Muncie, IN 47306-0490 USA
    1-(765)285-8640 (Math Office)
    1-(765)285-1721 (Fax)
    E-mail: mali@bsu.edu
    E-mail: mirmasoom@gmail.com
    My Homepage: http://www.cs.bsu.edu/homepages/ali/
    My Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mir_Masoom_Ali

 

 

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