Mina Aminghafari

About Me

I am an associate professor of machine learning at the University of Calgary. Most of my recent work has been in unsupervised Machine Learning for functional data and Co-clustering. I am also interested in Time Series Forecasting and Robust methods. I have five years of industrial experience in different industries, such as insurance and education.

Research Interests

• Statistics: Functional Data Analysis, Time series Forecasting, Non-parametric statistics, Object Data analysis.
• Machine Learning: Pattern recognition, Unsupervised Learning, Robust Machine Learning

News

• [September 2025] I seek a postdoc in the Random Objects (metric statistics) research area. If you are interested, please email me your CV and a sample publication in this area.

• [August 2025] In October, I am invited to talk at the CAST, University of Guelph.

• [July 2025] Our SPARC Ignite Grant was accepted with Dr Glen Hazlewood.

• [May 2025] I organized an invited session in SSC2025 on Unsupervised machine learning and Forecasting.

• [May 2025] If you have an offer letter for a PhD in Statistical/Machine Learning from a top 50 US University and cannot/will not go there, we will accept you for Winter 2026. Do not hesitate to get in touch with me. https://science.ucalgary.ca/mathematics-statistics

• [April 2025] Our grant, Enhancing Environmental Science in Alberta—Integrated assessment of surface water-soil water-groundwater connections for groundwater recharge estimation and groundwater drought indicators with Dr. Cey, was accepted by Alberta Environment and Protected Areas (EPA).

• [April 2025] I am Co-PI in the Indigenous Inflammatory Arthritis Prevention and Treatment approaches for Health Equity (IIA-PATH) Project funded by CIHR.

• [December 2024] I am seeking two motivated PhD candidates who want to work on Robust Machine Learning methods. A strong statistics or computer science background and a high skill level in R or Python are highly needed. Full financial support will be provided for PhD students. If you are interested, email me at mina.aminghafari@ucalgary.ca and include your CV, transcripts, English proficiency test, and letter of motivation.

• [September 2024] I started working on a new AI project entitled Decoding “Healthy” from “Pathogenic” Antinuclear Antibody Patterns Using Artificial Intelligence, Funded by McCaig Institute for Bone and Joint Health with Dr M. Choi.

• [June 2024-2025] I was an organizer of the Math to Power Industry.

• [November 2023] I was selected as P.Stat by SSC

Recent publications, visit Google Scholar for a complete and updated list.

Services

Recent Journal Reviews

• Applied Intelligence (APIN)
• The Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series C (Applied Statistics)

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