Marcel Scharth is a Lecturer in Business Analytics at the University of Sydney Business School. He specializes in the fields of statistics, econometrics, machine learning, and data science. Marcel received his Ph.D. from the VU University Amsterdam and the Tinbergen Institute in 2012, and has previously worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of New South Wales. Marcel is also affiliated with the Centre for Translational Data Science at the University of Sydney, where he engages in cross-disciplinary research in collaboration with partners in academia and industry.