Education

Education

  • PhD, 2012, Department of Mathematical Science, University Teknologi Malaysia, Malaysia
  • MS, 2007, Department of Statistics, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Iran
  • Bachelor, 2004, Department of Statistics, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Iran

Employment history

  • Visiting Scientist, National Neuroscience Institute (2021-present)
  • Assistant Professor, National University of Singapore, (2020-present)
  • Instructor, National University of Singapore, (2016-2020)
    Collaborated as biostatistician at Centre for Quantitative Medicine with clinicians and public health researchers in various health domains like eye diseases, genetics and genomics, cancer, paediatrics, and gynecological diseases, heart diseases
    Supported third year medical students with their clinical projects/thesis as quantitative mentor and taught several statistical sessions
    Collaborated as statistician with Singapore Clinical Research Institute and Singapore National Eye Centre on Asia Cornea Society Infectious Keratitis Study project
    Developed statistical methodology on bivariate zero-inflated data with interval-censoring
  • Adjunct Professor, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Iran, (2017-2018)
  • Post-Doctoral Fellow, Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore, (2014-2016)
    Developed statistical models for visual field progression in primary open angle patients from a Singaporean Chinese population.
    Designed combined multivariate logistic regression to implement the cumulative effect of multiple glaucoma loci on visual field progression.
    Collaborated as statistical consultant at Centre for Quantitative Medicine with residents and clinicians from Singapore Eye Research Institute.
  • Research Postdoctoral, Linköping University, Sweden, (2014-2014)
    Expanded a number of regression models for analyzing radiological visual grading studies in medical imaging, and in particular the effect of including random effects in the model.
    Statistical consultant at division of radiological sciences.
  • Visiting Researcher, University Teknologi Malaysia, Malaysia, (2013-2013)
    Developed two count regression models to handle the excess zeros and outliers’ problem using right censoring/truncation models.
    Supervised three PhD students of department of mathematical sciences as the co-advisor on projects involving cluster analysis, multiple linear regression, and nonlinear structural equation models.