College of Business and Economics

BIOGRAPHY

Zardad Khan received his master’s degree in statistics with distinction (Gold Medal) from the University of Peshawar, Pakistan, in 2008, MPhil in Statistics from Quaid-i-Azam University Islamabad, Pakistan, in 2011, and PhD degree in Statistics from the University of Essex, United Kingdom, in 2015. He has worked as an Associate Professor of Statistics at Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan, Pakistan. He has also done a 1 year post-doctorate from the University of Essex, UK. During his postdoc, he has worked under the Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) project to develop and use machine learning methods for the Essex and Suffolk county councils and Profusion (London) for various data analysis problems. Zardad’s focus is on data science and machine learning working on developing algorithms and R programming packages for classification problems and feature selection for high dimensional data. His other research interest are computational statistics, survival analysis and biostatistics.