ALIGARH, June 2 -- Dr Irfan Ali, a faculty member in the Department of Statistics and Operations Research at Aligarh Muslim University (AMU), has been ranked among the world's top 0.5% of scholars in the fields of Mathematical Optimization and Environmental Statistics by ScholarGPS, a globally recognized academic analytics platform.

A distinguished researcher in applied statistics, mathematical optimization, estimation theory, and artificial intelligence, Dr Ali has made significant contributions to his field. He has authored over 105 research papers indexed in the Scopus database and 71 in the Web of Science, and edited eight books published by renowned publishers such as Taylor & Francis and Springer Nature, all indexed in Elsevier's S...