Dr. Maryam Esna-Ashari

Personal Details
•    Date of Birth: 30 January 1986
•    Nationality: Iranian
•    Address: 43, West Sarv Ave., Kaj Sq., Saadat Abad, Tehran, Iran
•    Telephone: 0098-21-22084084
•    Email: esnaashari@irc.ac.ir; m.esnaashari.stat@gmail.com

Education
•    PhD in Statistics, University of Isfahan, Iran, 2010–2016
•    MSc in Statistics, University of Isfahan, Iran, 2008–2010
•    BSc in Statistics, University of Yazd, Iran, 2004–2008

Academic Employment
•    Assistant Professor, Insurance Research Center, 2016-present
•    Head of Property and Casualty Insurance Research Group, Insurance Research Center, 2019-present

Honors and Awards
•    Distinguished BSc graduate, 2008
•    Fourth place in the Student Olympiad in the country, 2008
•    Second team rank in Student Competitions in the country, 2008
•    Second place in University of Isfahan doctoral entrance exam, 2010
•    First place in University of Isfahan doctoral comprehensive exam, 2012

Research Interests
•    risk analysis of insurance companies
•    Calculation of reserves of insurance companies using statistical techniques and methods
•    Property and liability insurance pricing
•    emerging risks in the insurance industry
•    Stochastic orderings of random variables
•    Reliability theory

Publications in journals

•    Rostami Noroozabad, M., Badami, M., & Esna-Ashari, M. (2023). Dimensions of Risk Management Development in the Business Model and Culture of Financial Industry Organizations in Iran. Journal of Asset Management and Financing, https://doi.org/10.22108/amf.2022.134365.1749, 47-78.

•    Esna-Ashari, M., Balakrishnan, N., & Alimohammadi, M. (2023). HR and RHR orderings of generalized order statistics. Metrika, 86(1), 131-148.

•    Alimohammadi, M., Esna-Ashari, M., & Navarro, J. (2023). Likelihood ratio comparisons and logconvexity properties of p-spacings from generalized order statistics. Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences, 37(1), 86-105.

•    Khamesian, F., Esna-Ashari, M., Ofosu-Hene, D., & Khanizadeh, F. (2022). Risk Classification of Imbalanced Data for Car Insurance Companies: Machine Learning Approaches. International Journal of Mathematical Modelling & Computations, 12(3 (SUMMER)).

•    Khanizadeh, F., Khamesian, F., & Esna-Ashari, M. (2022). Employing unsupervised learning to detect fraudulent claims in auto insurance (isolation forest). Management Accounting, 15(53), 141-153.

•    Esna-Ashari, M., Khamesian, F., & Khanizadeh, F. (2022). Using local outlier factor to detect fraudulent claims in auto insurance. Journal of Mathematics and Modeling in Finance, 2(1), 167-182.

•    Esna-Ashari, M., Alimohammadi, M., & Cramer, E. (2022). Some new results on likelihood ratio ordering and aging properties of generalized order statistics. Communications in Statistics-Theory and Methods, 51(14), 4667-4691.

•    Khanizadeh, F., Esna-Ashari, M., Khamesian, F., & Bahador, A. (2022). Target replacement, a new approach to increase the performance of fraud detection system in auto insurance utilizing supervising learning. Journal of Quality Engineering and Management, 11(4).

•    Alimohammadi, M., Esna-Ashari, M., & Cramer, E. (2021). On dispersive and star orderings of random variables and order statistics. Statistics & Probability Letters, 170, 109014.

•    Esna-Ashari, M., & Asadi, M. (2016). On additive-multiplicative hazards model. Statistics, 50(6), 1421-1433.

•    Navarro, J., Esna-Ashari, M., Asadi, M., & Sarabia, J. M. (2015). Bivariate distributions with conditionals satisfying the proportional generalized odds rate model. Metrika, 78, 691-709.

Publications in Proceedings
•    Esnaashari, M. (2020). Emerging risks and their management, Proceedings of the 27th Conference of Insurance and Development.

•    Esnaashari, M., Malekian, L,. (2021). Pricing of property and liability insurances: Auto insurance, Proceedings of the 26th Conference of Insurance and Development.

•    Esnaashari, M., Alimohammadi, M. (2022). Comparing of sequential (n-k+1)-out-of-n systems with different structures, Proceedings of the 8th Seminar on Reliability Theory and its Applications, 70-79.

•    Esnaashari, M., Alimohammadi, M. (2021). Some reliability properties of sequential (n-r+1)-out-of-n systems, Proceedings of the 7th Seminar on Reliability Theory and its Applications, 101-113.

•    Esnaashari, M., Asadi, M. (2015). On Additive-Multiplicative Hazards Model, Proceedings of the 1th Seminar on Reliability Theory and its Applications, 70-77.

•    Esnaashari, M., Asadi, M. (2014). Reliability properties of bivariate conditional proportional generalized odds models, Proceedings of the 12th Iranian Statistical Conference, 62-69.

•    Alimohammadi, M., Esnaashari, M., Alamatsaz, M.H. (2012). Some results for discrete strong unimodality of order statistics with applications, Proceedings of the 11th Iranian Statistical Conference, 50-57.

Research projects and reports
•    Analysis of Iran's insurance market. (2016). Insurance Research center, Tehran, Iran.
•    Insurance securities with the approach of Iran's insurance market needs. (2017). Insurance Research center, Tehran, Iran.
•    Report on the dimensions of risk management development in the business model and culture of financial industry organizations. (2023). Insurance Research center, Tehran, Iran.
•    Corona and risk change in the insurance industry. (2022). Insurance Research center, Tehran, Iran.
•    Emerging risks and their management. (2023). Insurance Research center, Tehran, Iran.

Books
•    Translation from English to Persian:
Imbalanced classification with python.

Membership in committees and working groups
•    Scientific Committee of Insurance and Development Conference, Insurance Research Center, 2020-present
•    Publication Commission, Insurance Research Center, 2019-present
•    Research Council, Insurance Research Center, 2019-present