Associate Professor in Medical Statistics
University of East Anglia
Career History
- Associate Professor in Medical Statistics, Norwich Medical School, University of East Anglia, UK (2021 – current).
- Senior Lecturer in Medical Statistics, Norwich Medical School, University of East Anglia, UK (2016 – 2021).
- Senior Lecturer in Applied Statistics and Clinical Epidemiology, University College London (UCL), UK (2015 –2016).
- Lecturer in Biostatistics, Department of Biostatistics, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King’s College London, UK (2009 – 2015).
- Research Fellow in Statistical Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, Division of Infection & Pathway Medicine, University of Edinburgh Medical School, Edinburgh, UK (2006 – 2009).
- Teaching Assistant (part time, during PhD studies), School of Mathematics, University Of Edinburgh, Edinburgh (2004 – 2006).
- Lecturer in Statistics, Department of Statistics, University of Dhaka (2000 – 2003).
- Lecturer in Applied Statistics, Institute of Statistical Research and Training, University of Dhaka (1999 – 2000).
Main research interests include:
- Applied and methodological statistical research to improve health and health care system,
- Health Informatics – Statistical and Machine Learning methods for analysing high dimensional data, particularly those arising from electronic health records, modern bioinformatics, genomics and high resolution imaging technologies,
- Dynamic predictions using joint models and landmark approach with particular focus on risk prediction for dementia,
- Analysis and modelling of longitudinal data with nonlinear trajectory profiles including neuropsychological test scores measuring cognitive decline in dementia,
- Statistical design and analysis of randomised controlled and cluster randomised trials,
- Growth mixture models and latent class growth analysis,
- Regularised regressions and latent variable models with various penalisation techniques including LASSO, HyperLASSO and Elastic Net.
