Photo of Dr Azizur Rahman Dr Azizur Rahman

BSc (Honours), MSc (Thesis) Chittagong, MPhil Qld, PhD Canberra

Dr Azizur Rahman is a Lecturer in Mathematics and Statistics within the School of Computing and Mathematics at the Charles Sturt University. He came from the School of Population Health and Clinical Practice at the University of Adelaide where he was a Research Fellow in Biostatistics and Population Health for about seven months. At the University of Adelaide he was collaborated with Professor John Lynch, NHMRC Australia Fellow and some other key researchers in Australia, UK and Canada. Prior to that Azizur worked at the University of Canberra within the Mathematics and Statistics discipline for about one year as a Statistical Consultant and Teaching Fellow, and at the National Centre for Social and Economic Modelling (NATSEM) for three years as a Research Associate. Earlier than these he held several positions in academia for about five years in Australia and Bangladesh.

Azizur earned his PhD from NATSEM at the University of Canberra in 2011. His doctoral project was supervised by Professor Ann Harding, one of the prominent researchers in Australia, and in this project he has developed "alternative methodologies in micro-simulation modelling techniques" which are very useful tools to socioeconomic policy analysis and small area estimation. He was the only research student there who has been awarded three prestigious competitive scholarships (an Endeavour-IPRS, the ACT-LDA Postgraduate Research Scholarship and the NATSEM-TopUp Scholarship) for doing PhD research in Economics and Social Statistics. Azizur's other academic qualifications include an MPhil degree in Bayesian Statistics awarded in 2007 from the University of Southern Queensland, Australia, an MSc (with Thesis) in Biostatistics awarded in 2002 and a BSc (honours) degree in Statistical Science with Mathematics and Economics awarded in 2000 from the University of Chittagong, Bangladesh.

Azizur is currently also appointed as an Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of Canberra, Australia. He is a member of the American Statistical Association, USA.

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Teaching

  • MTH105: Introductory Mathematics
  • STA201: Scientific Statistics
  • STA347: Multivariate Statistical Analysis
  • STA401: Postgraduate Scientific Statistics
  • QBM120: Business Data Analysis

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Research

Dr Azizur's research interests span theoretical and applied statistics, Bayesian statistical modelling, predictive inference, biostatistics and public health, microsimulation modelling, small area estimation and business data analysis. He has a particular interest in early childhood health and development (e.g., Australian Early Development Index), indigenous health in Australia, malnutrition in developing countries, interaction of housing and spatial factors to population health outcomes, health related behaviours estimates, multilevel modelling, reweighting techniques and computational statistics. He has published various peer-reviewed manuscripts on his research areas.

As an interuniversity level research team, Azizur and his colleagues from UC, ANU, AIHW, NATSEM and Oxford together have received a grant from the Commonwealth Department of Health and Aging (DoHA) to undertake "an evaluation of the nurse practitioners - aged care models of care program" research project in Australia.

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Professional Activities

  • Member of the American Statistical Association (ASA), USA.
  • Member of the ARC research network in Spatially Integrated Social Sciences (SISS), Australia.
  • Member of the Australia Housing and Urban Research Institute (AHURI), Australia.
  • Member of the ANZSOG Institute for Governance at the University of Canberra, Australia.
  • Member of the Centre for Research and Action in Public Health (CeRAPH) at the University of Canberra, Australia.
  • Statistical Consultant within the "Quantitative Consulting Unit (QCU)" at the Charles Sturt University, Australia.
Grants and Awards
  • The Commonwealth Department of Health and Aging (DoHA) grant of A$1.9 millions to undertake an evaluation of the nurse practitioners - aged care models of care program research project with a large scale and interuniversity level collaborated research team of 13 colleagues from UC, ANU, AIHW, NATSEM and Oxford (2011 to 2015).
  • Conference support grant from the University of Washington for attending the 2011 Seminar on Bayesian Inference in Econometrics and Statistics (SBIES), April 29 - 30, 2011 the Washington University, St. Louis, USA.
  • An Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute (AHURI) travel grant for attending the Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute Postgraduate Scholar's Symposium, November 14 - 17, 2010 The University of Auckland, New Zealand.
  • The CRiSM Young Academic Award from the Centre for Research in Statistical Methodology at The University of Warwick for attending the Subjective Bayes - 2009 Workshop, December 14 - 16, 2009, Warwick, UK.
  • Student travel grant from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania for attending the 2009 International Workshop on Objective Bayes Methodology (O-Bayes09), June 5 - 9, 2009 Philadelphia, USA.
  • Postgraduates travel funding from the ARC research network in "Spatially Integrated Social Science (SISS)" for attending the ARCRNSISS/ANZRSAI Annual Conference, Nov 30 -Dec 03, 2008 The National Wine Centre of Australia, Adelaide.
  • An Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute (AHURI) travel grant for attending the Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute Postgraduate Scholar's Symposium, November 14 - 17, 2008 The Rydges Hotel, Melbourne.
  • Selected PhD scholars' workshop grant from the University of Queensland for participating the ARC Research Network in Spatially Integrated Social Science (ARCRNSISS) Summer School workshop, February 3 - 13, 2008 The University of Queensland, Brisbane.
  • An Endeavour - International Postgraduate Research Scholarship (E-IPRS) from the Commonwealth Government of Australia (2007 to 2010).
  • The ACT - Land Development Agency (ACT-LDA) Postgraduate Research Scholarship from the Government of Australian Capital Territory, Australia (2007 to 2010).
  • The NATSEM Top-Up Scholarship from the National Centre for Social and Economic Modelling at the University of Canberra, Australia (2007 to 2010).
  • PhD offer at the University of Melbourne with an "Endeavour-IPRS" and a Research Assistantship position (2007 to 2010, not availed).
  • PhD offer at Macquarie University with part-time Associate Lectureship position and an "international Macquarie University Research Excellence Scholarship (iMQRES)" (2007 to 2010, not availed).
  • PhD offer at the University of South Australia with the "University President Scholarship (UPS)" & a "Cooperative Research Centre (CRC) scholarship", and a prospective statistical consultancy position (2007 to 2010, not availed).
  • Merit Scholarship for being achieving excellent academic results throughout the M.Sc. (Thesis) and B.Sc. (Honours) programs at the University of Chittagong, Bangladesh (1997 to 2002).
Others
  • Reviewer of the Journal "Demography India" 2009.
  • Reviewer of the Journal "Asia-Pacific Journal of Public Health" 2010.
  • Statistical consultant for QCU at the Charles Sturt University, Australia.

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Selected Publications

Book:
  • Azizur Rahman (2008). Bayesian Predictive Inference for Some Linear Models under Student-t Errors. VDM-Verlag, Saarbrücken, Germany.
Journal Articles:
  • Islam, J., Rahman, A. and Boland, G. (2011), "Nexus of learning style with satisfaction and success of accounting students: a cross cultural study at an Australian university", International Journal of Learning and Change, 5(4), pp. 288-304.
  • Rahman, A and Harding, A. (2011), "Social and health costs of tobacco smoking in Australia: Level, trend and determinants", International Journal of Statistics and Systems, 6(4), pp. 375-387.
  • Rahman, A. (2011), "Bayesian predictive inference for multivariate simple regression model with matrix-T error", Pioneer Journal of Theoretical and Applied Statistics, 1(2), pp. 99-112.
  • Islam, J., Quazi, A. and Rahman, A. (2011),"Nexus between cultural dissonance, management accounting systems and managerial effectiveness: Evidence from an Asian developing country", Journal of Asia Pacific Business, 12(3), pp. 280-303.
  • Rahman, A.,Harding, A., Tanton, R. and Liu, S. (2010), "Methodological issues in spatial microsimulation modelling for small area estimation", The International Journal of Microsimulation 3(2), pp. 3-22.
  • Rahman, A. and Biswas, S.C. (2009). Nutritional status of under-5 children in Bangladesh. South Asian Journal of Population and Health 2(1), pp. 1-11.
  • Rahman, A., Chowdhury, S., and Hossain, D. (2009). Acute malnutrition in Bangladeshi children: levels and determinants.Asia Pacific Journal of Public Health, 21(3), pp. 294-302.
  • Rahman, A., Chowdhury, S., Karim, A. and Ahmed, S. (2008). Factors associated with nutritional status of children in Bangladesh: A multivariate analysis. Demography India, 37(1), pp. 95-109.
  • Rahman, A. (2008). Prediction distribution for linear regression model with multivariate Student-t errors. Far East Journal of Theoretical Statistics, 24(1), pp. 35-48.
  • Rahman, A. and Chowdhury, S. (2007).Determinants of chronic malnutrition among preschool children in Bangladesh, Journal of Biosocial Science, 39(2), pp.161-173.
Conference papers:
  • Rahman, A., Harding, A., Liu, S. and Tanton, R. (2011). Alternative validation tools for small area estimates generated by spatial Microsimulation models, Paper presented at the 3nd General Conference of the International Microsimulation Association, The City Conference Center, Stockholm, Sweden, pp. 1- 19 (June 8 to 10).
  • Rahman, A.,Harding, A., Tanton, R. and Liu, S. (2010), "Simulating the characteristics of populations at the small area level: New validation techniques for a spatial microsimulation model in Australia, In the 2010 Joint Statistical Meetings Proceedings, Social Statistics Section, American Statistical Association, Alexandria, pp. 2022-2036.
  • Islam, J., Rahman, A. and Boland, G. (2010), "Learning style and satisfaction and success of accounting students at the University of Canberra: a cross cultural study" Paper presented at the 10th Pacific Employment Relations Association (PERA) conference, The Gold Coast, Australia, pp. 1 - 19 (November 15 to 18).
  • Rahman, A. (2009). Small area estimation through spatial microsimulation models: Some methodological issues, Paper presented at the 2nd General Conference of the International Microsimulation Association, The National Conference Centre Ottawa, Canada, pp. 1- 45 (June 8 to 10).
  • Rahman, A. (2009). Objective Bayesian prediction for the matrix-T error regression model, Paper presented at the 2009 International Workshop on Objective Bayes Methodology (O-Bayes09), The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia USA, pp. 1-13 (June 05 to 09).
  • Rahman, A. (2007). Prediction distribution for linear regression model with multivariate Student-t errors under the Bayesian approach, In: Ismail et al., (ed.).Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Research and Education in Mathematics (ICREM3), Institute of Mathematical Research, Universiti Putra Malaysia, vol. II, pp.188-193 (April 10 to12).
  • Rahman, A. (2006). Risk Factors for Malnutrition in Bangladeshi Children, Showcasing Toowoomba Area Health Research conference (STAHR-06), Centre for Rural and Remote Area Health at the University of Southern Queensland, Australia, pp. 1-17 (August, 25).

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