Mir Masoom Ali's 30-plus years of service to Ball State includes the establishment of a statistics program, journal editorship and establishment of a biopharmaceutical statistics conference held at Ball State annually since 1978.

Accomplishments

• Awarded the Sagamore of the Wabash, the state's highest civilian award, in 2002 by Indiana Governor Frank O'Bannon. 
• The Journal of Statistical Studies, an international journal, in 2002 published a special issue to commemorate his 65th birthday.
• Inducted as a fellow by the American Statistical Association in 1998.
• Is a fellow of the Institute of Statisticians and the Royal Statistical Society.
• Published work in numerous mathematical and statistical journals.
• Received Ball State's 1992-93 Outstanding Faculty Award and the 1984-85 Outstanding Researcher Award.
• First recipient of the Bangladesh Statistical Association Qazi Motahar Husain Gold Medal awarded in 1990.
  

Education

• Bachelor's and master's degrees in statistics from the University of Dhaka.
• Master's and doctorate degrees in mathematical statistics from the University of Toronto.