Jaynal Abedin

Jaynal Abedin currently holds the position of Statistician at the Centre for Communicable Diseases (CCD) at icddr,b (www.icddrb.org). He attained his Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Statistics from the University of Rajshahi, Rajshahi, Bangladesh. He has vast experience in R programming and Stata and has efficient leadership qualities. He is currently leading a team of statisticians. He has hands-on experience in developing training material and facilitating training in R programming and Stata along with statistical aspects in public health research. His primary area of interest in research includes causal inference and machine learning. He is currently involved in several ongoing public health research projects and is a co-author of several work-in-progress manuscripts. In the useR! Conference 2013, he presented a poster—edeR: Email Data Extraction using R, available at http://www.edii.uclm.es/~useR-2013/abstracts/files/34_edeR_Email_Data_Extraction_using_R.pdf—and obtained the best application poster award. He is also involved in reviewing scientific manuscripts for the Journal of Applied Statistics (JAS) and the Journal of Health Population and Nutrition (JHPN). He is also a successful freelance statistician on online platforms and has an excellent reputation through his high-quality work, especially in R programming. He can be contacted at joystatru@gmail.com, http://bd.linkedin.com/in/jaynal; his Twitter handle is @jaynal83.