M. Iftakhar Alam, PhD

Professor

Office: Room No. 204
Phone:
Email: iftakhar@isrt.ac.bd

 

I currently hold the position of Professor of Applied Statistics and Data Science. Previously, I earned my bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Applied Statistics from the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh. My research journey began during my Ph.D. studies at the School of Mathematical Sciences, Queen Mary University of London, UK. There, under the guidance of Dr. Barbara Bogacka and Dr. D. Stephen Coad, I explored adaptive designs for dose-finding in early-phase clinical trials. My current research centers on diverse aspects of dose-finding methodologies in early-phase clinical trials.

Selected Publications

        A complete list of my published papers is available at Google Scholar and ResearchGate.

Recent Presentations 

  • A combined criterion for dose finding in phase I clinical trials, 44th Annual Conference of the International Society for Clinical Biostatistics, August 2023, Milan, Italy.
  • Combined Criteria for Dose Optimisation in Early Phase Clinical Trials, 62nd ISI World Statistics Congress,  August 2019, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
  • A Comparison Between the Continual Reassessment Method and D-optimum Design for Dose Finding in Phase I Clinical Trials, 37th Annual Conference of the International Society for Clinical Biostatistics, Birmingham, UK, August 2016.
  • A Constrained Optimum Adaptive Design for Dose Finding in Early Phase Clinical Trials, 35th Annual Conference of the Society for Clinical Trials, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, May 2014.
  • Adaptive Dose Finding in Early Phase Clinical Trials Incorporating Pharmacokinetic Information, 34th Annual Conference of the International Society for Clinical Biostatistics, Munich, Germany, August 2013.
  • Adaptive Dose Finding in Early Phase Clinical Trials Incorporating Pharmacokinetic Information, Population Optimum Design of Experiments Workshop, Eli Lilly, UK, June 2013.
  • Dose Finding in Early Phase Clinical Trials Incorporating Pharmacokinetic Information, 36th Research Students’ Conference in Probability, Statistics and Social Statistics, Lancaster University, UK, March 2013

Awards

  • Conference Award for Scientists, 37th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Clinical Biostatistics, Birmingham, UK, August 2016.
  • Student Conference Award, 34th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Clinical Biostatistics, Munich, Germany, August 2013.
  • Fazlul Huq Hall Provost Award, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh, 2004.

Currently Teaching

  • AST 201: Sampling Distributions and Simulation
  • AST 304: Epidemiology
  • AST 330: Statistical Computing VI: Introduction to SPSS and Stata

Professional Affiliations

  • Member, American Statistical Association, USA.
  • Member, International Society for Clinical Biostatistics, Denmark.
  • Member, International Statistical Institute, The Hague, The Netherlands.
  • Life Member, Bangladesh Statistical Association.