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I am a Biostatistics Ph.D. student at Dornsife School of Public Health, Drexel University, under the supervision of Professor Brisa N. Sanchez. I earned my B.Sc. and an MS in Statistics from Jahangirnagar University, Bangladesh. Before joining Drexel as a Ph.D. student, I gained valuable experience working and leading multiple research projects in various organizations. My research journey started during my third year of undergraduate studies. Since then, I've been enhancing 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 method 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, Spatial health, social determinants of health, and food environment.

Email: karimuzzaman.statju@gmail.com

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Publication in Prestigious Science Journal: One of my letters to the editor has been published in Prestigious Science Journal.

Obesity in Bangladesh: Study food near schoolsChildhood malnutrition is a well-known problem in low- and middle-income countries, but children in countries such as Bangladesh also face increasing rates of obesity (1). Obesity in both public and private schools in Bangladesh ranges from 14 to 38% (2), and about 23.6% of adolescents are overweight (3). Because the food environment— i.e., the type and amount of food that is available and accessible—affects children’s dietary preferences and health outcomes, it is considered a primary cause of obesity (4, 5). Bangladesh must collect data about the food environment in and near schools and then use that information to address childhood obesity.

Started a Data Analyst Position for the Summer term under Dr. Miller Sydney, where I will work on two research projects related to the longitudinal change in obesity.

Publication in Soft Computing: A COVID-19-based first-author research article was accepted recently, titled, Modeling COVID-19 cases and deaths with climate variables using statistical and data science methods.

Presentation at ENAR: Attend and present my paper, "Using LASSO to examine income differences in the spatial distribution of food outlets near schools in California" at 2024 Eastern North American Region (ENAR), International Biometric Society Spring Meeting, Baltimore.

Flash Talk: Give flash talk as a part of the Seminar series of the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics

Presentation at JSM: 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.

Seminar Talk: Present "Text Mining in Public Health Research", Seminar on Urban Health Collaborative, Drexel Dornsife School of Public Health, Drexel University.