Dr. Parsaeian is a professor of Econometrics at the University of Kansas. She received her Ph.D. degree from University of California, Riverside. Her research interest lies in the field of Econometrics. She has developed Econometric methods that result in better forecasting performance, in the sense of smaller forecast errors, under structural breaks. Her recent projects focus on panel data models with and without unknown factors in which there is latent group structures. She has worked on developing methods to categorize individual units into various groups.