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Biography
Dr. Sim Shin Zhu obtained her BSc degree with honors, MSc degree, and PhD degree in Statistics from the Institute of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Malaya. After completing her PhD, she pursued post-doctoral training at the University of Malaya as well. Currently, Dr. Sim holds the position of Assistant Professor at the School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Nottingham, Malaysia campus. Her research work revolves around flexible count distribution, which cover a wide range of dispersion levels.
Expertise Summary
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=SfJgiq0AAAAJ&hl=en
Scopus: https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=57200373800
Orcid ID: https://orcid.org/0009-0000-0387-5329
Teaching Summary
Current Teaching Focus: MATH1037 Analytical and Computation Foundation, MATH2050 Introduction to Scientific Computation, MATH2047 Statistical Models and Methods
Past Teaching Focus: Sampling Techniques, Theory of interest, Mathematical techniques for Engineering, Fundamentals of Financial Mathematics and others.
Research Summary
Area of expertise:
Statistical modeling and inference, Simulation and Computation and statistical data analysis.
Research Project:
A new flexible bivariate distribution (Principal Investigator), 15 September 2023 - 14 September 2024.
Proximal Spectral Gradient Method In Portfolio Optimization (Co-investigator), July 2021 - June 2022
Stochastic Count and Regression Models for Business, Actuarial and Financial Analytics (Co-investigator), December 2022 - November 2024.
Supervision:
Master
Dennis Ng Wen Wei (2019) A study of Properties on Generalized Beta and Mixture of Two modified Log-normal distributions, Master dissertation/thesis.
Tee, Yee Yang (2022) A study of covid-19 recession on the housing prices in Johor Bahru, Master dissertation/thesis
Life Member:
Malaysia Institute of Statistics
Selected Publications
SENG HUAT ONG and SHIN ZHU SIM, 2023. A bivariate distribution with convolution of binomials as marginals Communications in Statistics - Simulation and Computation. SENG HUAT ONG, RAMESH C. GUPTA, TIEFENG MA and SHIN ZHU SIM, 2021. Bivariate Conway-Maxwell Poisson
Distributions with Given Marginals and Correlation Journal of Statistical Theory and Practice. 15(10), 1-19 SIM SZ, GUPTA RC and ONG SH, 2018. Zero-inflated Conway-Maxwell Poisson Distribution to Analyze Discrete Data The International Journal of Biostatistics. 14(1), SEYED EHSAN SAFFARI, JOHN CARSON ALLEN, ROBIAH ADNAN, SENG HUAT ONG, SHIN ZHU SIM and WILLIAM GREENE, 2019. Frequency of Visiting a Doctor: A right Truncated Count Regression Model with Excess Zeros Biostatistics and Biometrics Open Access Journal. 9(5),