Faculty Profile

Dr Mossamet Kamrun Nesa

Professor

Contact Information

  • Office Address: Department of Statistics, Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Sylhet-3114, Bangladesh
  • Phone: +8801796747485
  • Email: mknesa-sta@sust.edu

Biography

Dr Mossamet Kamrun Nesa is an Associate Professor in the Department of Statistics at Shahjalal University of Science & Technology (SUST), Sylhet, Bangladesh. She started her career as a Lecturer in the same department in October 2009 and promoted as an assistant professor in June 2012. She completed a PhD in Statistics from the University of Wollongong, Australia in 2018. Mossamet’s thesis on Multivariate Small Area Estimation for Health Indicators and was supervised by Associate Professor Robert Clark and Dr. Carole. L. Birrell at University of Wollongong, Australia. Mossamet has published a number of scientific articles in well-known nationals and international journals and attended many national and international conferences. She obtained a two-year research grants from the research center of SUST.

Education

  • Ph.D in Statistics (University of Wollongong, Australia 2018) (Multivariate Small Area Estimation for Health Indicators)
  • Master in Statistics (research and course work) (Shahjalal University of Science & Technology (SUST), Sylhet, Bangladesh 2007)
  • B.Sc in Statistics(Shahjalal University of Science & Technology (SUST), Sylhet, Bangladesh 2005)

Research Interests

  • Small Area Estimation, Multivariate Modelling, Multilevel Modelling, Imputation, Bio-statistics, Sampling, Public Health, Demography

Previous Research Project

  • 1. Disaggregate level maternal health care indicators in Sylhet division: An Application of Area-level Small Area Estimation Method funded by SUST Research Centre, 2018-2020

Journal Publications

  • 1. Forecasting COVID-19 situation in Bangladesh
  • 2. Hard and Soft Dichotomization of Project Management: A Critical Analysis
  • 3. Disaggregate Level Maternal Health Care Indicators in Sylhet Division: An Application of Area-level Small Area Estimation
  • 4. District Level Child Nutrition Status in Bangladesh: An Application of Small Area Estimation Method
  • 5. Numerical and Empirical Evaluation of Fay-Herriot Models
  • 6. Application of Proportional Odds Model in Identifying Contributing Factor of Under Five Child Malnutrition in Bangladesh: A Case Study in Tangail District
  • 7. Fertility Transition in Bangladesh: The Role Education
  • 8. Levels and Trends in Child Malnutrition in Bangladesh
  • 9. Privatization and Regional Agglomeration Effect on Technical Efficiency of Bangladesh Manufacturing Industry

Teaching

  • Sampling Techniques-I
  • Sampling Techniques-II
  • Regression Analysis-II
  • Bioststistics and Epidemiology
  • Basic Statistics and Probability
  • Bioststistics
  • Probability and Probability Distribution

Awards & Recognition

  • 6. Travel Scholarship to present at the ASC-IMS Conference, Canberra, Australia December 2016.
  • 5. Travel Scholarship to present at the Small Area Estimation Conference, Shanghai, China, June 2018.
  • 4. Travel Scholarship to present at the Small Area Estimation Conference, Poznan, Poland, September 2014.
  • 3. Scholarship/Stipend: Attained meritorious scholarships from SUST. Meritorious scholarship from University Grant Commission, Bangladesh and Meritorious scholarship from Ministry of Secondary & Higher Education, Bangladesh
  • 2. BSC Scholarship/Stipend: In recognition of outstanding academic achievements and the well-deserved scholarship was awarded for 2001-2002 by Bangladesh Scholarship Council and The Nippon Foundation, Japan.
  • 1. Awards from University of Wollongong, Australia: International Postgraduate Tuition Award for August 2013- January 2018, University Postgraduate Award for August 2013-February 2017.