R. Nazim Khan
Research Interests:
Probability and Stochastic Processes, stochastic modelling,
Hidden Markov Models, the EM algorigthm,
MCMC, Computational methods in Statistics,
Experimental Design, Applications in
Engineering and Life Sciences, Modelling and
analysis of ion channel data.
Distinctions
- Commonwealth Scholarship 1976-1980
- Mary Hodgkin Prize, Currie Hall,
awarded for fostering good
relationship between International
and Australian students.
- First Prize, Technical Teachers'
Certificate, Fiji Institute of Technology,
1982
- Honorary Fellow, Currie Hall
- Nazim Khan Games Room, Currie Hall,
named after me for outstanding service to
the Hall over 24 years
- Commendation in Award for Teaching Excellence, Individual Teaching,
General Teaching Excellence,
Faculty of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics, 2007
Other Positions
Deputy Principal, Currie Hall,
1997-2007
Other Interests
Chess, Squash, Tae Kwon-do.
See my famous chess game played in
the inaugural Commonwealth Chess
Championship, Melbourne 1983, for
which I received a brilliancy prize.
Research
My research is on the analysis of ion
channel data. This work is in
collaboration with other colleagues in
this School and The School of Medicine and
Pharmocology. I am particularly interested
in the applications of the EM algorithm
and MCMC methods is parameter estimation
for hidden Markov models. I have also done
some work with
Professor Geoff McLachlan
in microarray data analysis.
Here is the list of
my publications.
Honours Students Supervised
- Rhiannon Marchant, honours in Applied
Statistics, 2004/05 (jointly supervised
with Dr Robin Milne). Thesis title:
Data
Modelling and Analysis using Hidden Markov Models.
- Nicole Warrington, honours in Applied Statistics, 2005/06
(jointly with Professor Lyle Palmer, WAIMR). Thesis
title: Identifying the role of the Prostagladin D2 Receptor
Gene on Asthma in WATCH for Asthma Cohort. Nicole is currently Statistics Team Leader with
The Centre for Genetic Epidemiology and Biostatistics.
- Jeeva Kanesarajah, honours is Applied Statistics, 2009 (jointly
with Lyle Palmer, WAIMR). Topic: Analysis of gene data from WATCH
cohort.
Teaching
This year I am teaching
STAT3366 3S6 Applied Statistical Methods and
MATH1050 Calculus C
in first
semester.
I have taught and co-ordinated
STAT1520 (previously STAT1106) Economic and Business Statistics
for several years.
Consulting
I was the statistical consultant for the
School of Life Sciences at The University
of Queenland in 2003. Currently I am a
memeber of the
The UWA Statistical Consulting Group.
Interesting sites
Last update: 12 February 2010
Author: Nazim Khan
(nazim@maths.uwa.edu.au)
