Chair of the Local Programme Committee for the 60th ISI WSC.

For his invaluable efforts in organising ISI 2015, the 60th WSC in Rio de Janeiro.

Paper: Zero-Modifed Models for Count Data

Paper: Robust logistic quantile regression models using skewed heavy-tailed distributions

Paper: Modelling time series of counts with deflation or inflation of zeros

Professor Heleno Bolfarine is awarded the Mahalanobis International Award 2021 for his outstanding research contributions and academic leadership, his lifelong and outstanding performance in capacity building through teaching and mentoring several generations of statisticians in South America, and for his leadership and promotion of statistics and the statistics profession both at a national and an international level, with special emphasis on South America.