Dr. Senay Asma is a senior statistician, analytics consultant, research scientist, lecturer, and a certificated program evaluator professional with more than 15 years of experience both in the public and private sector. She held an Assistant Professor appointment at Anadolu University between 2007–2013 before joining the research group in probability and statistics as a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at McMaster University. Since 2009, Dr. Asma has been involved in interdisciplinary research with computing algorithms, genome/phenotype-wide association studies, and health economics, as well as psychiatry and neuroscience. Her work in this area covers both theoretical and applied aspects. She has published extensively on probability and statistics issues, as well as contributed papers on human genetics. In 2022, she was appointed Research Associate at McMaster University’s Department of Psychiatry and Neuroscience, Health Sciences.