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Jeremy Balka is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mathematics & Statistics at the University of Guelph. He is a dedicated teaching-focused faculty member, spending significant time on teaching statistics courses and developing resources to aid student learning. He has created over 100 YouTube videos covering various topics in statistics, which have gained popularity among students worldwide. Balka is a strong advocate for providing learning resources freely to the public, contributing to a growing library of high-quality online materials. His research primarily focuses on survival analysis and cure rate modeling, which involves exploring time-to-event data and understanding the proportion of a population that experiences a specific event. He finds the challenges that arise in this field, along with its diverse applications across medicine, engineering, and manufacturing, particularly interesting. Additionally, his interests include financial statistics and portfolio management, where he works to develop models that accurately incorporate uncertainty to achieve a suitable balance of growth and risk.
Department of Clinical Studies. Offers MSc by thesis (2 years) and MSc by coursework (1 year).