Khaled AlqahtaniCurriculum Vitae

"In one day, the statistical thinking will be necessary asreading and writing " -Khaled Alqahtani

Education2013-2016 Ph.D. of Applied Statistics , University of Leeds, Leeds.2011–2013 Masters of Applied Statistics, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville–USA, GPA –

3.82 out of 4.First Class Honours

2008–2009 Advanced diploma in mathematics, King Saud University, Riyadh–Saudi Arabia,GPA – 4.34 out of 5.First Class Honours

2004–2008 Bachelor of Mathematics, King Khaled University, Abha–Saudi Arabia, GPA –4.49 out of 5.Second Class Honours

Experience2008–2009 A mathematical teacher in a public school–Riyadh–Saudi Arabia.2009–2011 A faculty member in Statistical department–College of since in Alkharj–King

Saud university–Saudi Arabia.2011–2013 Statistical consultation, Working as a consulting for business department during

my master degree in USA.2013–2016 A teacher assistant in Statistical department–University of Leeds–UK.

2011–Present A faculty member in Statistical department– Prince Sattam Bin AbdulazizUniversity–Saudi Arabia.

2016–Present A vice dean of the college of since and humanities – Prince Sattam BinAbdulaziz University–Saudi Arabia.

2016–Present A research visitor in Statistical department–University of Leeds–UK.

Awards2016 Award by HRH Prince Mohammed bin Nawaf Al Saud, the Saudi ambassador to

the UK for outstanding academic achievements

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2016 The winner of the best Medicine and Medical Sciences paper in the 9th annualConference held in Birmingham, U.K , between the 14th and 15th Feb 2016

2013-2016 Award by Saudi Arabia Cultural Bureau for outstanding academic achievements(Four times during my PhD)

2014 The award of best research in statistics at university of Arkansa– USA2013 Elected for NSCS national society of collegiate Scholar honor in the USA

Selection of Workshops which I present2017 Statistics for non-Statisticians–University of Leeds–Leeds–UK2017 Statistics in scientific research 1 –University of Manchester–Manchester–UK2017 Statistics in scientific research 2 –University of Manchester–Manchester–UK2017 Data and Statistical Analysis using R Program (One week)–King Fahad Medical

City–Riyadh. 2016 Biostatistics for Physicians, Nurses, and Clinicians–On-line course for one semester

. 2013-2016 Doing workshops for researchers across U.K about the common mistakes in statisticsfor non statistician and how to use statistics in scientific research

2013-2016 Teaching R and data Mining workshop for master students at university of Leeds.

Research2012 Spatial Prediction of Rainfall in South West of Saudi Arabia–University of Arkansas–

USA. 2013 Self-Efficacy of Completing Colorectal Cancer Screening–USA

. 2013 The Performance of supervisor (Overall rating of job being done by supervisor)–USA

. 2014 Selling Price of Houses–USA

. 2014 Milk production per Cow in the US –USA

. 2014 Survival analysis of lung cancer patients based on their copy number alterationprofiles from next-generation sequence data–The 5th annual Survival Analysis–UK.

2015 Hemorrhagic Gliobastoma Multiform: prevalence, predisposing factors and prognosisamong adult KFMC patients–International Journal of Advanced Research .

2015-2016 Survival Analysis of genomic profiles for cancer’ patients. 2016-2017 Social Media Analytics with R.

Volunteers’ work2016 Founder of Sigma for Statistics and data analysis (http://sigma-statdata.com)2016 Chairman of the public relations committee-the 9th Saudi students conference–

Bermingham–UK

. 2010-2011 Team member who establish the Saudi Student Organization in Arkansas (Fayet-teville)

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2011-2013 Team member who assist new students to settle down in University of Arkansas2011-2013 Preparing students for GRE and GMAT test .

Programming SkillsBasic XML, C

Advanced LATEX, OpenOffice, Linux, Microsoft officeAdvanced statistical software such as R, SAS, SPSS, MINT LAP,MATLAP

R PackagesCoxCNA Extended Cox proportional hazard model for prediction of patients’ clinical data and

copy number alteration profiles. Author: Khaled Alqahtani, Maintainer: KhaledAlqahtani.

SCox Smoothed Cox proportional hazard model for prediction of patients’ clinical dataand copy number alteration profile. Author: Khaled Alqahtani, Maintainer: KhaledAlqahtani.

SSCox Sparse-smoothed Cox proportional hazard model for genomic profiles. Author:Khaled Alqahtani, Maintainer: Khaled Alqahtani.

SSlogit Sparse-smoothed logistic model for genomic profiles. Author: Khaled Alqahtani,Maintainer: Khaled Alqahtani.

SSNor Sparse-smoothed normal model for genomic profiles. Author: Khaled Alqahtani,Maintainer: Khaled Alqahtani.

SSPoisson Sparse-smoothed Poisson model for genomic profiles. Author: Khaled Alqahtani,Maintainer: Khaled Alqahtani.

SocialMediaArabicLearning Arabic’s Social Media Analytics with R . Author: Khaled Alqahtani,Maintainer: Khaled Alqahtani.

LanguagesArabic MothertongueEnglish Advanced

Interests- Statistical Learning and Data Miningfor big data

- Statistical Bioinformatics and genetics

- Sport statistics - Social Statistics- Social Media Analysis (Twitter, Face-book, and Instogram)

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