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In December 2014, IM obtained his PhD in Finland at Lappeenranta University of Technology and his PhD dissertation was titled \u201cAdaptive Markov Chain Monte Carlo and Bayesian Filtering for State Space Models\u201d. His area of specialization is Bayesian Methodology applied to, for example, epidemiology, stochastic processes and climate change. He has more than 20 papers on Markov chain Monte Carlo, stochastic differential equations, particle filters, mathematical statistics and epidemiology. IM has supervised 10 Masters and 2 PhD graduates. Currently, IM has 4 Masters and 3 PhD students.\u00a0 IM&#8217;s teaching experience starts from secondary school to postgraduate levels, where his courses have been delivered face-to-face and some (at Masters Level) are delivered online.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm;\"><b><span style=\"font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #1a1a1a;\">African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS)\u00a0<\/span><\/b><span style=\"font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #1a1a1a;\">|<b>\u00a0<\/b><\/span><b><\/b><b><\/b><b><span style=\"font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #852053;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/b><b><span style=\"font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #1a1a1a;\">|\u00a0<\/span><\/b><span style=\"font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nexteinstein.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><b><span style=\"color: #103cc0;\">www.nexteinstein.org<\/span><\/b><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"people-type":[39],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.2 - 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