Rajib Paul

Dr. Rajib Paul is a Professor of Biostatistics in the Department of Epidemiology and Community Health and Affiliated Faculty of the School of Data Science and the Center for Computational Intelligence to Predict Health & Environmental Risks (CIPHER) at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He received his doctoral degree in Statistics from the Ohio State University.  His research expertise includes

Health Areas: Social Determinants of Health and Health Equity, Injury Prevention, and Infectious Diseases

Methods: Spatial and Spatio-Temporal Statistics, Bayesian Methods, Big Data Analytics, Causal Inference, Machine Learning, Nonparametric Methods, Text Analytics, and Geographic Information Systems (GIS)

Statistical Theory: Infill Asymptotics, Method of Sieve, Functional Central Limit Theorem, and Markov Chains

Databases: Surveillance Data, Insurance Claims Data, Electronic Health Records, Census Data, Crowdsourced Data, Food Purchase Transaction Data, and National Survey Data

As principal investigator, co-principal investigator, or biostatistician, he worked on research projects funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the American Public Health Association, the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, Health Resources and Services Administration, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and other funding agencies. A full list of Dr. Paul’s peer-reviewed published articles can be accessed at: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=m8Ru90cAAAAJ&view_op=list_works&sortby=pubdate

Dr. Paul’s article on COVID-19 published in the Journal of Rural Health received the article of the year award in 2021.

Dr. Paul has mentored 14 doctoral students from Public Health Sciences, Epidemiology, Health Services Research, and Statistics as chair/co-chair of the dissertation committee and served as a committee member on an additional 25 doctoral dissertations.  Additionally, he supervised several masters students from Health Analytics and Informatics and Data Science and Business Analytics programs on multiple research projects. He also served as a mentor for tenure-track assistant professors.

Dr. Paul is an associate editor for the Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation.