Associate Prof @uncbiostat, @UNCpublichealth, and @UNC_Lineberger #Genomics #statisticalcomputing #clinicaltrials #cancer lab page: https://rashidlabcds.start.pagehttps://bsky.app/profile/naimurashid.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/naimurashid.bsky.social/post/3ml7ighghns2mWhere has AI earned a place in your work, and where have you decided it shouldn’t go? In a recent lab meeting, my students and I got stuck on this question. The more we use AI, the harder it gets to articulate when it’s helping us - and when it isn’t.06 May 2026 19:59 +0000at://did:plc:py344c2d4t5rxuxcinz2tjgw/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml7ighghns2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/naimurashid.bsky.social/post/3lmzutsfg4c2kNew paper on fixed and random effects variable selection in mixed survival models with Hillary Heiling, Quefeng Li, Jen Jen Yeh, Joseph Ibrahim, and Xianlu Laura Peng, to appear in Statistics in Medicine: link: lnkd.in/eZsnBQZi Arxiv link: lnkd.in/esg3QYEx R package: lnkd.in/eGqETr6m https://lnkd.in/eZsnBQZi17 Apr 2025 19:49 +0000at://did:plc:py344c2d4t5rxuxcinz2tjgw/app.bsky.feed.post/3lmzutsfg4c2khttps://bsky.app/profile/naimurashid.bsky.social/post/3lli3vxja3225Congrats to Yusha Liu on her latest paper in @naturegenet.bsky.social! She developed a novel tool to tease out patient-specific, dataset-specific, and shared factors from multi-sample single-cell sequencing data to learn more replicable cell types in PDAC Link: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39747597/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39747597/29 Mar 2025 00:42 +0000at://did:plc:py344c2d4t5rxuxcinz2tjgw/app.bsky.feed.post/3lli3vxja3225https://bsky.app/profile/naimurashid.bsky.social/post/3lb3miodfus2vHey @mubashariqbal.com please add: go.bsky.app/Bs5m32B [contains quote post or other embedded content]16 Nov 2024 19:23 +0000at://did:plc:py344c2d4t5rxuxcinz2tjgw/app.bsky.feed.post/3lb3miodfus2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/naimurashid.bsky.social/post/3koc5gt7wcz2tChief in Editor? MEGA journal?? Clinics in Oncology, which is also trademarked??? Best spam email I have received today Dear Clinics in Oncology™️ Chief in Editor, I am submitting something as we speak22 Mar 2024 14:54 +0000at://did:plc:py344c2d4t5rxuxcinz2tjgw/app.bsky.feed.post/3koc5gt7wcz2thttps://bsky.app/profile/naimurashid.bsky.social/post/3ko355vyhl32n“All models are wrong and yours are useless: making clinical prediction models impactful for patients” nature.com/articles/s4169… A lot of great points here! You may have heard a few of these from me over the past few years, particularly about using multiomics for clinical prediction19 Mar 2024 19:50 +0000at://did:plc:py344c2d4t5rxuxcinz2tjgw/app.bsky.feed.post/3ko355vyhl32nhttps://bsky.app/profile/naimurashid.bsky.social/post/3kgemybqqgm2zExcited to share our recent work profiling clinically-relevant mutations in CRC patients receiving SOC therapies in CALGB 80405, highlighted in @JCO_ASCO. Kudos to UNC Bios student Wancen Mu for her critical contributions to this work! Paper: tinyurl.com/yhsvntkj Editorial: tinyurl.com/2554u4yx12 Dec 2023 19:05 +0000at://did:plc:py344c2d4t5rxuxcinz2tjgw/app.bsky.feed.post/3kgemybqqgm2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/naimurashid.bsky.social/post/3kevrzl4mcm2vHappy thanksgiving from…@PeppaPigFlorida! Any yes, there is an entire theme park devoted to @peppapig, and yes, we did actually go there My idea of roast pig for dinner tonight was flatly rejected24 Nov 2023 04:00 +0000at://did:plc:py344c2d4t5rxuxcinz2tjgw/app.bsky.feed.post/3kevrzl4mcm2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/naimurashid.bsky.social/post/3kcojo5ietp2xOur work developing formal methods to handle (non)ignorable missing data in supervised #deeplearning is now online at JCGS! Great work by former @uncbiostat student David Lim, now @GSK. Was not an easy problem to tackle but David did a great job! link: shorturl.at/dflrV26 Oct 2023 19:52 +0000at://did:plc:py344c2d4t5rxuxcinz2tjgw/app.bsky.feed.post/3kcojo5ietp2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/naimurashid.bsky.social/post/3kazob4micy2fExcited to share the news of my appointment to associate prof with tenure @uncbiostat! Milestones like this don’t happen alone, and are made possible by amazing mentors, colleagues, collaborators, students, and especially family Thank you for everything, and for believing in me05 Oct 2023 19:23 +0000at://did:plc:py344c2d4t5rxuxcinz2tjgw/app.bsky.feed.post/3kazob4micy2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/naimurashid.bsky.social/post/3kamyculbio2fPost-#AACRPan23, a trip to @MikesPastry is a must for the fam back home Still trying to figure out how the lines work, 10 years later30 Sep 2023 18:18 +0000at://did:plc:py344c2d4t5rxuxcinz2tjgw/app.bsky.feed.post/3kamyculbio2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/naimurashid.bsky.social/post/3kammg4eyzs2uSide benefit of being at #AACRPan23 in Boston: getting to celebrate stellar @uncbiostat @UNCpublichealth student Hillary Heiling's successful doctoral defense! Best of luck @dfcidatascience, they are lucky to have you!30 Sep 2023 14:45 +0000at://did:plc:py344c2d4t5rxuxcinz2tjgw/app.bsky.feed.post/3kammg4eyzs2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/naimurashid.bsky.social/post/3kakhmdgaml2p#rstats folks: any experiences with writing grants in Rmarkdown/quarto? So far its been way smoother than writing in latex, and I am hoping that citations/bibliography management will be much more straightforward than Word (endnote...) Any tips/pitfalls to watch out for?29 Sep 2023 18:14 +0000at://did:plc:py344c2d4t5rxuxcinz2tjgw/app.bsky.feed.post/3kakhmdgaml2phttps://bsky.app/profile/naimurashid.bsky.social/post/3kaadsmmc3k2tA friend was at an early career researcher workshop on grant writing and heard tapping from the window. She turned to see a large vulture staring at her, later joined by three more vultures, each tapping their beaks on the window. Can anyone think of symbolism more demoralizing??25 Sep 2023 17:39 +0000at://did:plc:py344c2d4t5rxuxcinz2tjgw/app.bsky.feed.post/3kaadsmmc3k2thttps://bsky.app/profile/naimurashid.bsky.social/post/3k7rdb7ffrb23Had a great visit to Michigan biostats last week! Talked about our latest work in cancer precision medicine, replicability, and clin. implementation of algorithms. Big thanks to Veera B. and Jeremy Taylor for the invite and swag! Lots of really awesome faculty, students, and research going on at UM19 Sep 2023 18:19 +0000at://did:plc:py344c2d4t5rxuxcinz2tjgw/app.bsky.feed.post/3k7rdb7ffrb23https://bsky.app/profile/naimurashid.bsky.social/post/3k7ovdafj4o2rPlease spread the word! UNC biostatistics and UNC Genetics are recruiting a tenure-track assistant professor to engage in statistical genetics/genomics methodological and collaborative research Apply here: https://unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/265030 Details below18 Sep 2023 19:05 +0000at://did:plc:py344c2d4t5rxuxcinz2tjgw/app.bsky.feed.post/3k7ovdafj4o2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/naimurashid.bsky.social/post/3k7i5czfapi2dUsed “where’s the beef” in three talks recently and am totally stoked. Also no one got it under 4016 Sep 2023 02:39 +0000at://did:plc:py344c2d4t5rxuxcinz2tjgw/app.bsky.feed.post/3k7i5czfapi2d