University of Guelph-Humber

Dr. Faisal Khamis has taught at the University of Guelph-Humber since 2019. He has been a professional educator for 29 years, where he has engaged in teaching, research, and university and community service. He is an Associate Professor of Statistics, and throughout his career has taught approximately 20 different courses at various undergraduate and graduate levels at universities and colleges worldwide. Dr. Khamis is a graduate of Baghdad University where he received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. Degrees in Statistics in 1992 and 1995 respectively. He received his Ph.D. in Statistics from the National University of Malaysia in 2008. In 2019, he obtained the certificate of Internationally Trained Professional Co-operative Education Program from Brian J. Fleming Learning Centre, Canada. He was recognized in the first five percent of academic evaluation levels in the 2017/18 academic year at the Al Ain University of Science and Technology. Dr. Khamis is an Accredited Professional Statistician awarded by the American Statistical Association (ASA) and Statistical Society of Canada (SSC). He is an expert at the League of Arab States in the field of Population and Development. He is a professionally active Chartered Statistician and a Chartered Scientist awarded by the Royal Statistical Society (RSS) and a Chartered Scientist awarded by the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (IMA), UK. He is a Consultant in Statistics, as per the directory of the RSS. He is also a Certified Data Scientist awarded by the Data Science Central, USA. He has published 30 research papers in various internationally refereed journals and has delivered approximately 20 presentations at international conferences in the fields of Applied Multivariate Statistics, Mortality, Social Science, Economics, and Spatial and Temporal Statistics. Dr. Khamis is currently an Editor-in-chief, Associate Editor, and Reviewer for approximately 40 international journals. He is a Certified Publons Academy Peer Reviewer, UK. He is a member of more than 30 professional associations and societies, such as ASA, RSS, Statistical Society of Canada, and International Statistical Institute. 

Danielle LaGrone has been teaching at the University of Guelph-Humber since 2018. Her area of research is the history of religion, with an emphasis on Asian religions and women/gender in religion, including editing a collection of research in Women and Religion (Routledge, 2009). LaGrone ran one of GH’s study abroad trips to Japan in 2019. She has taught both in-class and online classes over the past 15 years. In online education, she has spent years learning how to design courses that increase student experience and allow for the development of skills and exploration of new ideas.