I am a senior research statistician at AbbVie, where I contribute to the design, analysis, and reporting of clinical trials and scientific research studies. My responsibilities include developing protocols, statistical analysis plans (SAP), identifying appropriate data collection instruments, performing statistical analyses, and collaborating with other functions to ensure high-quality outputs and patient-centric evidence. I also evaluate available software for planned analyses, assess needs for potential development of novel statistical methodology, collaborate in the publication of scientific research, and support communications between assigned product team(s) and functional management.
Additionally, I contribute to cross-functional initiatives related to safety statistics and work collaboratively with stakeholders to identify fit-for-purpose data sources and develop detailed analysis plans to deliver high-quality evidence and insights.
I did a PhD at Iowa State University in the Department of Statistics. I worked with Peng Liu and Yumou Qiu on statistical data analysis of gene expressed data and specifically applying a network-based model to multiple testing procedure to improve the test power while controlling FDR.
I'm interested in the intersection of Statistics and Genetics, and in general statistical Genomics with a penchant for statistical learning and reproducibility. I like learning new languages, R being my first love.
I have great experience in R package development and Shiny apps. Here are a list
of professional packages
I have been having contribution to: gsDesign, gsDesign2,
gsdmvn, simtrial, r2rtf,
pkglite, and
PetFindr.
I was previously a research assistant at the Consulting Group in the Department of Statistics at Iowa State University. We provide assistance to the researchers and graduate students at Iowa State University with their study and research designs, choosing statistical methods, interpretation of the results, use of statistical software and computing packages.
I worked as a Biostatistics Graduate Intern Merck & Co. in the
Summer 2020 and Summer 2021. I was in the Design Methodology Division, Statistical Programming
Group, and Late Development Statistics Group at Merck and my major
projects were to develop R packages related to fixed and group sequential designs for time-to-event endpoints clinical trials, and an internal package for package qualification purposes. I also
developed three different shiny apps which were: 1- Merck Oncology Shiny app, which provides as many tools as gsDesign
shiny app, but for oncology studies and enables users to download the results in the standard reporting
format. If you take a look at gsDesign shiny app,
you would get a big picture of how the shiny app I developed would look like and in terms of
tools, it provides more options for analysis with downloadable (in '.rtf') tables, figures, and listings which follow the standards of Merck analysis and reporting,
2- Statistical programming managerial dashboard for project monitoring using
ggplotly, and 3- A shiny app for adaptive two-in-one
studies (for oncology trials).
Running unit tests, simulations for group sequential designs for time-to-event
endpoints and package validation were some of my other tasks.
After the successful internship in summer 2020, I got an offer from ClinChoice for a Fall and Spring internships. I worked as an intern at
ClinChoice (FMD K&L rebranded) in the Biostatistics and Programming
division with a team of expert statisticians and biostatisticians. I have gained lifetime experience in these positions and look forward to implementing that into my research and future career.
I completed a master in statistics at Shahid Beheshti University University working with Hamideh D. Hamedani. I received my BS again in statistics at IKIU with Afshin Fallah.
I am the treasurer and on the executive board of
STATCOM at Iowa State. I am also a
member of STATers (statistical student association) at Iowa State and in my role as
the student representative in the Statistics faculty committee, I communicate relevant
information and decisions from the student association to the faculty members. I am the former treasurer of ISSA (Iranian Students and Scholars' Association) at Iowa State university with great experience of working in teams and
organizing big events.
I enjoy weightlifting, playing video games, and I am a soccer lover. I am a big fan of Liverpool FC.
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