M. Iftakhar Alam, PhD
Professor
Office: Room No. 204
Phone:
Email: iftakhar@isrt.ac.bd
Phone:
Email: iftakhar@isrt.ac.bd
I am a Professor of Applied Statistics and Data Science, with a background that includes a bachelor’s and master’s in Applied Statistics from the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh. My research career took shape during my Ph.D. at the School of Mathematical Sciences, Queen Mary University of London, UK, where I worked under the mentorship of Dr. Barbara Bogacka and Dr. D. Stephen Coad. My doctoral research focused on adaptive designs for dose-finding in early-phase clinical trials. Since then, my research has continued to develop various dose-finding methodologies, with an emphasis on early-phase clinical trials.
Selected Publications
- Alam, M. I., B. Bogacka, and D. Stephen Coad (2024). A constrained optimum adaptive design for dose finding in early phase clinical trials. Journal of Biopharmaceutical Statistics, 1-26.
- Alam, M. I. and Shanto, Shantonu Islam (2022). Patient-specific dose finding in seamless phase I/II clinical trials. Sequential Analysis 41(3), 367-386.
- Rahman, Rezoanoor and Alam, M. I. (2021). Stopping for efficacy in single-arm phase II clinical trials. Journal of Applied Statistics 49(10) 2447-2466.
- Khan, Noor M. and Alam, M. I. (2020). Early stopping in seamless phase I/II clinical trials. Pharmaceutical Statistics 20(2), 390-412.
- Alam, M. I., Coad, D. S. and Bogacka, B. (2019). Combined criteria for dose optimisation in early phase clinical trials. Statistics in Medicine 38(21), 4172-4188.
- Moni, M. M. and M. I. Alam (2018). Patient-specific dose finding in phase I clinical trials. Journal of Applied Statistics 45(14), 2607-2618.
- Alam, M. I., B. Bogacka, and D. Stephen Coad (2017). Pharmacokinetically guided optimum adaptive dose selection in early phase clinical trials. Computational Statistics and Data Analysis 111, 183-202.
A complete list of my published papers is available at Google Scholar and ResearchGate.
Recent Presentations
- A combined criterion for dose finding in phase I clinical trials, 44th Annual Conference of the International Society for Clinical Biostatistics, August 2023, Milan, Italy.
- Combined Criteria for Dose Optimisation in Early Phase Clinical Trials, 62nd ISI World Statistics Congress, August 2019, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
- A Comparison Between the Continual Reassessment Method and D-optimum Design for Dose Finding in Phase I Clinical Trials, 37th Annual Conference of the International Society for Clinical Biostatistics, Birmingham, UK, August 2016.
- A Constrained Optimum Adaptive Design for Dose Finding in Early Phase Clinical Trials, 35th Annual Conference of the Society for Clinical Trials, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, May 2014.
- Adaptive Dose Finding in Early Phase Clinical Trials Incorporating Pharmacokinetic Information, 34th Annual Conference of the International Society for Clinical Biostatistics, Munich, Germany, August 2013.
- Adaptive Dose Finding in Early Phase Clinical Trials Incorporating Pharmacokinetic Information, Population Optimum Design of Experiments Workshop, Eli Lilly, UK, June 2013.
- Dose Finding in Early Phase Clinical Trials Incorporating Pharmacokinetic Information, 36th Research Students’ Conference in Probability, Statistics and Social Statistics, Lancaster University, UK, March 2013
Awards
- Conference Award for Scientists, 37th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Clinical Biostatistics, Birmingham, UK, August 2016.
- Student Conference Award, 34th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Clinical Biostatistics, Munich, Germany, August 2013.
- Fazlul Huq Hall Provost Award, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh, 2004.
Currently Teaching
- AST 201: Sampling Distributions
- AST 304: Epidemiology
Professional Affiliations
- Member, American Statistical Association, USA.
- Member, International Society for Clinical Biostatistics, Denmark.
- Member, International Statistical Institute, The Hague, The Netherlands.
- Life Member, Bangladesh Statistical Association.
