Vinay Joshy

I’m an incoming Master of Mathematics in Computational Mathematics student at the University of Waterloo supervised by Dr. Martin Lysy. I previously completed a Master of Science in Applied Statistics at the University of Guelph supervised by the wonderful Dr. Zeny Feng, where my research focused on variable selection methods and finite mixture models. I also hold a Bachelor of Mathematics from the University of Guelph and a Technical Diploma in Biotechnology from Mohawk College. These days I’m interested in nonparametric methods, multinomial logit models, Gaussian process computation, and causal inference. My most recent CV can be found here.

Contact: joshy (at) uoguelph (dot) ca
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Announcements

Aug 04, 2026	Completed MSc. Applied Statistics at University of Guelph
May 01, 2025	Started MSc. Applied Statistics at University of Guelph
Apr 24, 2025	Graduated from BMath.(Hons) Mathematical Science!

Selected publications

CRAN

regMR: Regularized Finite Mixture Regression Models Using MM Algorithm

Cameron Bechthold, Vinay Joshy, Zeny Feng, and 1 more author

Jul 2026

R package version 1.0.0

Bib HTML

@manual{regMR,
  title = {regMR: Regularized Finite Mixture Regression Models Using MM Algorithm},
  year = {2026},
  month = jul,
  author = {Bechthold, Cameron and Joshy, Vinay and Feng, Zeny and Stelter, Grace},
  note = {R package version 1.0.0},
}

jors

DESA: An R Package for Detecting Epidemics Using a School-Absenteeism Surveillance Framework

Vinay Joshy, Zeny Feng, Lorna Deeth, and 2 more authors

Journal of Open Research Software, Feb 2026

DOI Bib HTML

@article{joshyDESAPackageDetecting2026,
  title = {{{DESA}}: {{An R Package}} for {{Detecting Epidemics Using}} a {{School-Absenteeism Surveillance Framework}}},
  shorttitle = {{{DESA}}},
  author = {Joshy, Vinay and Feng, Zeny and Deeth, Lorna and Vanderkruk, Kayla and Slater, Justin},
  year = {2026},
  month = feb,
  journal = {Journal of Open Research Software},
  volume = {14},
  pages = {11},
  issn = {2049-9647},
  doi = {10.5334/jors.634},
}