About Me

I am an Assistant Professor (Tenure-Track) in Biostatistics at the College of Health Solutions, Arizona State University (ASU). Prior to joining ASU, I worked as a Postdoctoral Associate at Professor Hongyu Zhao’s lab, Department of Biostatistics, Yale University from 2022-2024. I earned my Ph.D. in Statistics under the advisory of Professor Ming-Hui Chen at the University of Connecticut in 2022. Previously, I received B.S. and M.S. in Applied Statistics at the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh in 2013 and 2014, respectively. I am a former Faculty in Applied Statistics at the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh from 2015-2017.

Please find my CV at here.

Dr. Sheikh is currently recruiting for Ph.D. students with Graduate Research Assistantships starting in Fall 2025.

Research Interests

• Competing risks and semicompeting risks survival data analysis, longitudinal data analysis, joint modeling of longitudinal and survival data, and cure rate model.
• Bayesian inference, Bayesian computation, model assessment tools, leveraging external data, and interim analysis in clinical trials.
• UK Biobank, All of Us, electronic health records, cancer disease, type 2 diabetes, statistical genomics, microbiome data for premature babies and inflammatory bowel disease.

Recent Developments/News

• CHS Innovation talk “Methods for exploring prostate cancer risk due to multiple causes and longitudinal biomarkers in the presence of unknown causes”, November 2024 at College of Health Solutions (CHS), ASU.
• Joined Arizona State University as an Assistant Professor (Tenure-Track) in Biostatistics from Fall 2024.
• Presented recent research titled “A Semicompeting Risks Model with an Application to UK Biobank Data to Identify Risk Factors for Diabetes Onset and Progression,” a joint work with my Postdoc advisor Professor Hongyu Zhao at ENAR 2024 (March 10 - 13, 2024).
• Joined Department of Biostatistics, Yale University as a Postdocotral Associate in September, 2022.
• Received the “Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship” at the University of Connecticut, Summer 2022.
• Presented our paper titled “New Bayesian C-indices for Assessing Importance of Longitudinal Biomarkers in Fitting Competing Risks Survival Data in the Presence of Partially Masked Causes” at the ENAR 2022.
• Recieved the prestigious “IBM Student Research Award” at the New England Statistics Symposium, Sep 28 - Oct 2, 2021.
• Recieved the prestigious “ISBA 2022 Travel Award”, awarded by the International Society for Bayesian Analysis.