Dr. Md. Rezaul Karim
Dr. Md. Rezaul Karim Professor, Department of Statistics and Data Science

PROFILE

SHORT BIOGRAPHY

Md Rezaul Karim, born in 1983, obtained a BSc (4-year honors program) and MSc degrees in Statistics from Jahangirnagar University, Bangladesh, in 2005 and 2006, respectively. He achieved the first-class first position in the post-graduation during his tenure. Additionally, he secured his second MSc (124 credits, 2-year program) in Biostatistics at the Department of Statistics and Data Science from Hasselt University in 2015 under the VLIR-UOS scholarship.

In 2019, he earned a doctoral degree in science from the Arenberg Doctoral School at KU Leuven (KU Leuven ranked seventh on Thomson Reuters’ 2018 list of the World’s Most Innovative Universities, the highest-ranking of any university outside the United States), Belgium, and from the Doctoral School of Sciences & Technology at Hasselt University, Belgium. His doctoral research focuses on a family of quantile-based asymmetric densities and semi-parametric flexible quantile regression. He also studied a generalized family of quantile-based asymmetric densities for conditional and unconditional settings. This family allows studying a broad range of asymmetric densities, which, in a regression setting, shares the basic philosophy with generalized (non) linear models but focuses on conditional quantile estimation instead of conditional mean estimation. He developed an R package named "QBAsyDist," which is available on the CRAN website.

After completing his first post-graduation, he worked as an MIS Associate in the Global Communication Center (GCC), Dhaka. He also served as a Senior Officer at Sonali Bank Limited, Bangladesh, for a few months. Since 2009, he has been working as a faculty member at Jahangirnagar University in the Department of Statistics, Bangladesh. Moreover, he was an academic staff member at KU Leuven and Hasselt University, Belgium, from 2015 to 2019.

 

Mr. Karim is interested in conducting collaborative and interdisciplinary research in Data Science and statistics.


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Google Scholar: Dr. Md. Rezaul Karim  ResearchGate: Dr. Md. Rezaul Karim

RESEARCH INTEREST

Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Big Data Analytics, Biostatistics, Flexible Regression Analysis, Quantile Regression, Multivariate Survival Data Analysis, Robust Statistics, Correlated and Multivariate Data Analysis, Copula-based Modeling, Bayesian Inference, Bayesian Disease Mapping, Spatial Data Analysis.

JOURNAL PAPER

Indrani Sarker, Md. Rezaul Karim, Sefat E-Barket, Mehedi Hasan, Dengue fever mapping in Bangladesh: A spatial modeling approach, Health Science Reports, 2024, 10, pp.1-20, 2024. doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/hsr2.2154

 

Rachid Muleia , Genito Maúre , Américo José , Plácida Maholela , Isaac Akpor Adjei, Md. Rezaul Karim, Assessing the Vulnerability and Adaptation Needs of Mozambique’s Health Sector to Climate: A Comprehensive Study, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Healt, 21, 532, pp.1-27, 2024. doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph21050532
Sefat-E- Barket, Md. Rezaul Karim, Spatial analysis of COVID‑19 risk factors: A case study in Bangladesh, Aerobiologia, 2, 1, pp.1-20, 2024.
Md. Mamun Miah · Mohammad Belal Hossain, Sumiya Nur Jannat, Md. Rezaul Karim, Md. Rashedur Rahman, Yasin Arafat, Farjana Haque Pingki, Assessing the impact of climatic factors on dengue fever transmission in Bangladesh, Aerobiologia, 1, 1, pp.1-13, 2024. doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10453-024-09814-0
Sejuti Haque, and Md. Rezaul Karim, Link Function for Quantile Estimation in Regression Settings, Asian Journal of Probability and Statistics, 20, 3, pp.24-35, 2022. doi: 10.9734/ajpas/2022/v20i3424
Rezaul Karim, Sefat-E-Barket, Bayesian Hierarchical Spatial Modeling of COVID-19 Cases in Bangladesh, Annals of Data Science, 2023, 1, pp.1-27, 2023.
Rezaul Karim, Nazmin Akter, Efects of climate variables on the COVID‑19 mortality in Bangladesh, Theoretical and Applied Climatology, 10, 1,
Md. Rezaul Karim, Mst. Bithi Akter, Sejuti Haque, Nazmin Akter, Do Temperature and Humidity Affect the Transmission of SARS‑CoV‑2?‑A Flexible Regression Analysis, Annals of Data Science, July, 2021. doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s40745-021-00351-y
Mst. Bithi Akter and Md. Rezaul Karim, A Quantile Regression Analysis to Investigate the Effect of Temperature and Humidity on the Spread of COVID-19, Jahangirnagar University Journal of Statistical Studies, 36, 1, pp.71-184, 2022.
Irène Gijbels, Rezaul Karim, and Anneleen Verhasselt, Semiparametric quantile regression using family of quantile-based asymmetric densities, Computational Statistics & Data Analysis, 157, May 2021, pp.107-129, 2021. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.csda.2020.107129
Md. Rezaul Karim, Investigating the Quality of Online Education from University-level Students’ Perspective in Bangladesh, Research & Reviews: Journal of Statistics, 10, 1, pp.07-16, 2021. doi: 10.37591/RRJoST
Irène Gijbels, Rezaul Karim, and Anneleen Verhasselt, Response to the Letter to the Editor on ‘On Quantile‐based Asymmetric Family of Distributions: Properties and Inference’, International Statistical Review, 88, 3, pp.797-801, 2020. doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/insr.12424
Rezaul Karim, Irène Gijbels, and Anneleen Verhasselt, QBAsyDist: Asymmetric Distributions and Quantile Estimation, pp.1-55, 2019. doi: https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/QBAsyDist
Irène Gijbels, Rezaul Karim, and Anneleen Verhasselt, On quantile-based asymmetric family of distributions: properties and inference, International Statistical Review, 87, 3, pp.471-504, 2019. doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/insr.12324
Outcome after post-operative radiotherapy (PORT) in ypN2 or R1/R2 versus no PORT in ypN0 stage III-N2 non-small cell lung cancer after induction chemotherapy and resection, Journal of Thoracic Oncology, 11, 11, pp.1940-1953, 2016. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jtho.2016.06.018
Isaac Akpor Adjei, Md. Rezaul Karim, Rachid Muleia, and Peter Jouck, Dependency of the Distribution of Salmonella-Specific Antibodies SP-Ratios on Weight and Sampling Time, American Journal of Theoretical and Applied Statistics, 5, 3, pp.87-93, 2016.
Rezaul Karim, Pear Hossain,, Sultana Begum,, and Forhad Hossain, Rayleigh Mixture Distribution, Journal of Applied Mathematics, 2011, Article ID 238290, pp.1-17, 2011. doi: https://doi.org/10.1155/2011/238290
Isaac Akpor Adjei, and Rezaul Karim, An Application of Bootstrapping in Logistic Regression Model, Open Access Library Journal, 3, 9, 216. doi: https://www.oalib.com/articles/5273593
Fitrat Hossain and Rezaul Karim, Determination of Total Fertility Rate of Bangladesh using Bongaarts Model, Journal of Biometrics & Biostatistics, 176, 4, 2013. doi: 10.4172/2155-6180.1000176
Md Rezaul Karim, A Class of Scale Mixtured Normal Distribution, Journal of Biometrics & Biostatistics, pp.7-2, 2016. doi: 10.4172/2155-6180.1000285
Isaac Akpor Adjei, Md. Rezaul Karim, Rachid Muleia, and Peter Jouck, Evolution of Hearing Thresholds and the Effect of Age, Current Journal of Applied Science and Technology, 16, 1, pp.1-9, 2016. doi: https://doi.org/10.9734/BJAST/2016/25948
Md Rezaul Karim, Shamsunnahar Tania, and Shamsunnahar Tania, Role of Micro-credit in Poverty Alleviation of Rural Poor: Evidence from Laxmipur District, Journal of Business and Technology, 7, 2, pp.37-55., 2012. doi: https://doi.org/10.3329/jbt.v7i2.16453
Md Rezaul Karim, Longitudinal modeling of T-cell dynamics during in vitro stimulation experiments, University of Hasselt, 2015.
Rezaul Karim, Morshed Alam, M. M. H. Chowdhury, and, Forhad Hossain, Generalized Minimum Perpendicular Distance Square Method of Estimation, Applied Mathematics, 3, 12, pp.1-5, 2012. doi: 10.4236/am.2012.312266
Md. Pear Hossain, Md. Rezaul Karim and Md. Forhad Hossainand , and Anwar H. Joarder, A Bivariate Type II Gumbel Probability Model and its Properties: Technical Report Series, TR 428, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Kind Fahad University of Petroleum & Minerals, TR 428, 79, 2012.
Md Rezaul Karim, Seasonal ARIMA for Forecasting Sea Surface Temperature of the North Zone of the Bay of Bengal, â??Research & Reviews, Research & Reviews: Journal of Statistics, 2, 2, pp.2278-2273, 2013.
Md. Rezaul Karim , Morshed Alam , Md. Manzur Rahman Farazi and Rubiyat Jafrine Labone, Factors influencing blood donation behavior of university level students in Bangladesh, JU Journal of Information Technology (JIT), 1, pp.35-40, 2012.

CONFERENCE PAPER

M. R. Karim, M. F. Hossain: Generalized Minimum Perpendicular Distance Method. Presenting at ââ?¬Å?The First International Conference on Theory and Applications of Statisticsââ?¬Â organized by DUSDAA, December 26-28, 2010.

E. H. Tamal, M. R. Karim, A. B. M. S. Mia: New Ratio Estimators Using Correlation Coefficient and Central Moments. Presenting in ââ?¬Å?The First International Conference on Theory and Applications of Statisticsââ?¬Â organized by DUSDAA, December 26-28, 2010.

E. H. Tamal, M. R. Karim, M. F. Hossain: Minimum Perpendicular Distance Method is extended for three variables regression model. Presenting at ââ?¬Å?The First International Conference on Theory and Applications of Statisticsââ?¬Â organized by DUSDAA, December 26-28, 2010.


M. R. Karim, T. Basak, A. K. Majumdar: A comparative Study of GMM and ML estimation and power for testing the parameters of Student-t and Gamma distribution. ICSS, 2008, pp. 307-312.


BOOK CHAPTER

Irène Gijbels, Rezaul Karim, and Anneleen Verhasselt, Quantile Estimation in a Generalized Asymmetric Distributional Setting, Stochastic Models, Statistics and Their Applications, 294, pp.13-40, 2019. doi: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-28665-1

AWARD

Md. Rezaul Karim, PhD Position in the Department of Mathematics, KU Leuven, Belgium, 2015-2019.
Md Rezaul Karim, VLIR-UOS Scholarships for master programmes (ICP Biostatistics), University of Hasselt. Belgium, 2014-2015.

WORKSHOP

Dr. Md Rezaul Karim, Common Mistakes in Report/Thesis Writing, Department of Statistics, 2020.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/341782008_Common_Mistakes_in_ReportThesis_Writing


OTHER

Student Database (Department of Statistics, JU) ,


https://forms.gle/PXJjqmLvEVgMoF3b9


Teaching

Course Code Course Title Semester/Year
STAT-306 Econometrics 2022
IT-5101 Probability and Stochastic Processes 2022-Continuing
STAT-307 Biostatistics and Epidemiology 2022 to Continuing
STAT-501 Advanced Multivariate Analysis 2022 to Continuing
DSA5007 Big Data Analytics & Coud Computing Fall-2023 to Continuing
DSA5006 Machine Learning Summer-2023 to Continuing
WMASDS22 Machine Learning for Data Science Fall-2023 to continuing
STAT 515 (MS-2020) Spatial Data Analysis 2020-2021
STAT 508 (MS-2020) Advance Biostatistics 2020-2021
STAT-410 Categorical Data Analysis 2021, 2022
STAT 201 (Honours 2nd Year Course) Probability Distribution 2019, 2021, 2022
PM-ASDS 10 (Professional Master's) Time Series Analysis and Forecasting Fall - 2021
PM-ASDS19 (Professional Master's) Big Data Summer 2021
STAT 514 (MS-2019) Computer Intensive Statistics 2019-2020
PM-ASDS18 (Professional Master's) Data Mining Summer 2021
MATH 208 (Honours 2nd Year Course) Statistics II Mathematics 2019-2020

Academic Info

Institute: KU Leuven
Period: 2015-2019

Doctor of Science

Institute: Hasselt University
Period: 2015-2019

Doctor in Sciences: Statistics

Institute: University of Hasselt (UHasselt)
Period: 2013-2015

Master of Biostatistics (credits120 , 2-Years Program)

Institute: Jahangirnagar University
Period: 2005-2016

Master of Statistics

Institute: Jahangirnagar University
Period: 2001-2005

Bachelor of Science (4-years Honours)

Experience

Organization: Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KU Leuven)
Position: Teaching Staff
Period: 2016-2017

Course Teaching: 
B-KUL-G0P75a: Statistical Inference (exercise sessions) 

Organization: Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KU Leuven)
Position: Ph.D Student and Teaching Staff
Period: 2015-2019

Ph.D (joint program) Student and Teaching Staff in KU Leuven and UHasselt. 

Organization: Hasselt University (UHasselt)
Position: Ph.D student and Teaching staff
Period: 2015-2019

Ph.D (joint program) Student and Teaching Staff in KU Leuven and UHasselt. 

Activity

Organization: Department of Statistics
Position: Student Advisor, Library and Sports Teacher
Period: 2019 to continue
Organization: University of Hasselt (UHasselt)
Position: Teaching Assistant
Period: 2018-2019
Course Teaching:
3220:
Concepts of Probability and Statistics DL 
3578: Software and Data Management DL 
Organization: Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KU Leuven)
Position: Teaching Staff
Period: 2018-2019

Course Teaching:
B-KUL-G0P76a: Statistical Inference and Data Analysis (exercise sessions)

Organization: Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KU Leuven)
Position: Teaching Staff
Period: 2017-2018

Course Teaching:
B-KUL-G0P75a: Statistical Inference (exercise sessions)

Organization: Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KU Leuven)
Position: Teaching Staff
Period: 2016-2017

Course Teaching:
B-KUL-G0P75a: Statistical Inference (exercise sessions)

Organization: University of Hasselt (UHasselt)
Position: Research Consultant
Period: 2015-2016

Consultancy Project: Lokaal - LCRP3 (2016) - Postoperative radiotherapy in resected ypN2 or R1/R2 stage III-N2 non-small cell lung cancer (Client name: Charlotte Billiet) 

Organization: Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KU Leuven)
Position: Teaching Staff
Period: 2015-2016

Course Teaching: 
B-KUL-G0P75a: Statistical Inference (exercise sessions)
B-KUL-G0A23A: Advanced Non-Parametric Statistics (exercise sessions)

Contact

Dr. Md. Rezaul Karim

Professor
Department of Statistics and Data Science
Jahangirnagar University, Savar, Dhaka-1342, Bangladesh.
Cell Phone: (+88) 01912605556
Email: rezaul@juniv.edu , mrkarim5556@gmail.com