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 [...]
Bahman Rostami-Tabar, PhD Assistant Professor in Logistics and Operations Management, Cardiff University How did you become a forecaster? While pursuing a bachelor degree in industrial engineering I was first exposed to forecasting in an inventory control course I took at the time. [...]
Shari De Baets, Research Associate, Vlerick Business School How did you become a forecaster? I started working as a researcher on business research projects in 2010. One of the topics centered on decision-making and more specifically, the heuristics-and-biases tradition. While looking for literature [...]
How did you become a forecaster? While pursuing a master’s degree in industrial engineering I was exposed to forecasting in an operations research and supply chain management course. I was also introduced to the classic book Forecasting: Methods and Applications by Makridakis, Wheelwright, [...]
