About
I am a Biostatistics Ph.D. student at Dornshife School of Public Health, Drexel University. Prior to that, I earned my B.Sc. and an M.S. in Statistics from Jahangirnagar University, Bangladesh. My research journey started during my third year of undergraduate studies. Since then, I've been trying to enhance my statistical knowledge and research skills through national and international collaborations.
My primary research interest is in developing statistical methods for high-dimensional health datasets. Currently, my research focuses on developing methods using regularization or feature selection techniques, particularly LASSO adaptiveness, for high-dimensional longitudinal datasets. Most of my work is inspired by and closely related to applications in environmental health sciences, fairness and disparity, public health, Spatial health, and maternal and child health.
Spatial statistics
Longitudinal data analysis
High-dimensional data analysis
Count data models
Time series data analysis
Data science for public health
Current Working Projects
– Lasso for the spatial distribution of food outlets
– Spatial aggregated predictor model to examine built environment health Effects
– Evaluating differential exposure to food environment by data source
– Comparison of Food environment near private and public schools in California
Email: karimuzzaman.statju@gmail.com
Address:
3215 Market Street,
5th Floor, Nesbitt Hall.
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Curriculum Vitae: here
Google Scholar: here
Recent News
Give flash talk as a part of the Seminar series of the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Attend and present my paper, "Spatial Distribution of Food Environment Near Public and Private School in California" at the Joint Statistical Meeting (JSM), Toronto, Ontario, Canada in August 2023.
Present "Text Mining in Public Health Research", Seminar on Urban Health Collaborative, Drexel Dornsife School of Public Health, Drexel University.
Had "International Teaching Assistant Training" at DREXEL University
Teaching
Graduate Teaching Assistant, BST 560: Intermediate Biostatistics I, Fall 2023, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Drexel University
Graduate Teaching Assistant, BST 571: Introduction to Biostatistics Winter 2022-23, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Drexel University
Teaching Fellow, PBH 2022: Intro to Biostatistics, BRAC James P Grant School of Public Health, BRAC University
Instructor, 3rd year Course- Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Department of Statistics, Govt. Titumir College under Dhaka University
Statistics Mentor, Durbin Labs Limited, An app based education platform
Article Review
Reviewer of PLOS One, Social Network Analysis and Mining
Publications
Karimuzzaman, M., Moyazzem Hossain, M. Forecasting Performance of Nonlinear Time-Series Models: An Application to Weather Variable. Model. Earth Syst. Environ. (2020). Springer Nature Switzerland Pte Ltd., DOI: 10.1007/s40808-020-00826-6.
Ahmed, K., Karimuzzaman, M., Afroz, S., Hossain, M., Huq, S., Abdulla, F., & Rahman, A. (2023). Trends and long-term variation explaining nutritional determinants of child linear growth: Analysis of Bangladesh Demographic and Health Surveys 1996-2018. Public Health Nutrition, 1-30. doi:10.1017/S1368980023002288
Karimuzzaman M., Moyazzem Hossain M., and Azizur Rahman, (2020), Finite Mixture Modelling Approach to Identify Factors Affecting Children Ever Born for 15–49-Year-Old Women in Asian Country, In A. Rahman (ed.), Statistics for Data Science and Policy Analysis, Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd., DOI: 10.1007/978-981-151735-8_17. (Book chapter)
Karimuzzaman, M., Islam, N., Afroz, S., and Hossain, M. M. (2021), Predicting Stock Market Price of Bangladesh: A Comparative Study of Linear Classification Models, Annals of Data Science, Springer Nature Switzerland AG. DOI: 10.1007/s40745-020-00318-5.
Ahmed, K.T., Karimuzzaman, M., Mahmud, S. et al. Influencing factors associated with maternal delivery at home in urban areas: a cross-sectional analysis of the Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey 2017–2018 data. J Health Popul Nutr 42, 83 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1186/s41043-023-00428-9
Hossain, A.; Karimuzzaman, M.**; Hossain, M.M.; Rahman, A. Text Mining and Sentiment Analysis of Newspaper Headlines. Information 2021, 12, 414. https://doi.org/10.3390/info12100414
Abdulla, F.; Nain, Z.; Karimuzzaman, M.; Hossain, M.M.; Rahman, A. A Non-Linear Biostatistical Graphical Modeling of Preventive Actions and Healthcare Factors in Controlling COVID-19 Pandemic. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2021, 18, 4491. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18094491
Abdulla F, Hossain MM, Karimuzzaman M, Ali M, Rahman A. Likelihood of infectious diseases due to lack of exclusive breastfeeding among infants in Bangladesh. PLoS One. 2022 Feb 16;17(2):e0263890. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0263890. PMID: 35171952; PMCID: PMC8849615.
Shezan A., Karimuzzaman M., and Hossain M. M., (2020), Modeling of Mean Sea Level of Bay of Bengal: A Comparison between ARIMA and Artificial Neural Network. International Journal of Tomography & Simulation, Issue No. 1, Vol. 33, 2021.
Rahman A, Abdulla F, Karimuzzaman M, Hossain MM. Burden of COVID-19 on health and wellbeing, education, and economy of Bangladesh. Clin Case Rep. 2022 Nov 23;10(11):e6639. doi: 10.1002/ccr3.6639. PMID: 36439388; PMCID: PMC9684679.
Hossain MM, Abdulla F, Karimuzzaman M, Rahman A. Routine Vaccination Disruption in Low-Income Countries: An Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic. Asia Pac J Public Health. 2020 Nov;32(8):509-510. doi: 10.1177/1010539520957808. Epub 2020 Sep 11. PMID: 32917115.
Ahmed KT, Karimuzzaman M, Pinky GN, Dasgupta DP, Rahman L, Hossain MM, Rahman A. Association of dietary diversity of 6-23 months aged children with prenatal and postnatal obstetric care: evidence from a nationwide cross-sectional study. J Health Popul Nutr. 2023 Nov 6;42(1):120. doi: 10.1186/s41043-023-00470-7. PMID: 37932856; PMCID: PMC10629119.
Karimuzzaman M., S Afroz, MM Hossain, A Rahman (2020), Forecasting the covid-19 pandemic with climate variables for top five burdening and three South Asian countries. DOI: 10.1101/2020.05.12.20099044.
F Abdulla, Z Nain, Karimuzzaman M., MM Hossain, UK Adhikari, AZ Rahman (2020), Effect of preventive actions and health care factors in controlling the outbreaks of COVID-19 pandemic. DOI: 10.1101/2020.05.12.20099044.
Preprint
Karimuzzaman M., S Afroz, MM Hossain, A Rahman (2020), Forecasting the covid-19 pandemic with climate variables for top five burdening and three South Asian countries. DOI: 10.1101/2020.05.12.20099044.
F Abdulla, Z Nain, Karimuzzaman M., MM Hossain, UK Adhikari, AZ Rahman (2020), Effect of preventive actions and health care factors in controlling the outbreaks of COVID-19 pandemic. DOI: 10.1101/2020.05.12.20099044.
Under Revision
Ahmed, K.T., Karimuzzaman M., Hossain MM, Rahman Azizur, Age and Sex-specific Disability-free Life Expectancy in Urban and Rural Settings of Bangladesh
In Preparation
Karimuzzaman M., Brisa Sanchez, Emma Sanchez-Vaznaugh, Using LASSO to examine income differences in the spatial distribution of food outlets
Karimuzzaman M., Brisa Sanchez, Emma Sanchez-Vaznaugh, Fast-food and Convenient Outlets Near Schools in California
Tara P. McAlexander, Karimuzzaman M., Reyhaneh A. Nejad Yazdi, Kari Moore, Jana A. Hirsch, Steven Melly, Jingjing Li, Brisa Sánchez; Evaluating differential exposure to food environment by data source.
Adam T. Peterson, Karimuzzaman M., Jana A. Hirsch, and Brisa N. S ́anchez*, Spatial Aggregated Predictors to examine built environment health Effects.