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 tourism big data analytics. She is the founder of Tourism and Hospitality [...]
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 articles and presented in more than 30 national and international conferences. [...]
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 incumbents win or lose elections. Election prediction [...]
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 solving real world problems. My experience with forecasting started with my [...]
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 forecast demand to drive capacity increases. In my [...]
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 forecasts with another consultancy team. This triggered my [...]
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 organization that started to move from manual capacity [...]
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 Wiley UK visited me at the university. [...]
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 year. I did my research [...]
Sarah Van der Auweraer PhD candidate, KU Leuven, Faculty of Economics and Business How did you become a forecaster? After my master in business engineering I got the opportunity to pursue a PhD at KU Leuven in 2015. The topic of the PhD aimed [...]
