Sheikh Taslim Ali

Dr. Ali has joined the School of Public Health in 2015. He completed his Bachelor of Science in Statistics (Honours) in 2006; Master of Science in Statistics (Specialization: Biostatistics, Stochastic Process) in 2008. He earned his Ph.D in Statistics (Stochastic Epidemic Modelling) in 2015. He has a brief industrial experience in analytics before joining for his Ph.D programme. He has also successfully pursued his Split-Site Ph.D. training programme from School of Public Health, Imperial College London, during 2011-2012.

Dr. Ali’s research interests are mathematical and statistical epidemiology, modelling of infectious diseases and optimization of control policies. The main focus of his current research is to understand the disease dynamics (including influenza, COVID-19, RSV, hand-foot-and-mouth disease and other respiratory diseases) under the effect of time-varying interventions and seasonal forces (e.g., meteorological, pollutants and socio-economic). He develops the general statistical/mechanistic models for disease outbreaks, with the aim of determining how the effectiveness of containment and mitigation policies depends on disease severity. He holds the research grants from Health and Medical Research Fund (HMRF) and Research Grants Council (GRF), Hong Kong as PI and Co-PI. He is the course coordinator of Introduction to Biostatistics (CMED6100), one of the core courses of the Master of Public Health curriculum at the University of Hong Kong. He also serves as an academic reviewer of scientific manuscripts for more than 25 international journals, including Nature Communication, Nature Human Behaviour, Eurosurveillance, Environmental Health Perspective, Emerging Infectious Diseases, BMC Infectious Disease, American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Journal of the Royal Society Interface, Journal of Theoretical Biology, Epidemics.

Awards:

• Faculty 'Research Output Prize 2021', by Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong (HKUMed, HKSAR).
• Commonwealth Split-Site PhD Scholarship Award 2011-12, tenable in UK, (by Commonwealth Scholarship Commission, UK).
• Maulana Azad National Fellowship (MANF) 2010-15 as JRF and SRF (by University Grants Commission, New Delhi, INDIA)
• Two Gold Medals for academic excellence of standing highest in M.Sc. (Statistics), 2008 (by Karnatak University, INDIA).

Companies

• Assistant Professor The University of Hong Kong (2022)
• Research Assistant Professor The University of Hong Kong (2020 — 2022)
• Post Doctoral Fellow The University of Hong Kong (2015 — 2020)
• Maulana Azad National Fellow (JRF and SRF, UGC, INDIA) Karnatak University (2010 — 2015)
• Commonwealth Split-Site Doctoral Research Scholar Imperial College London (2011 — 2012)
• Project Research Fellow (UGC, INDIA) Karnatak University (2009 — 2011)
• Analytics Executive Indian Market Research Bureau (IMRB) International Limited. (2008 — 2009)

Education

• Doctor of Philosophy (Split-Site PhD), Infectious Disease Modeling Imperial College London (2011 - 2012)
• Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Karnatak University (2009 — 2015)
• Master of Science (M.Sc.) Karnatak University (2006 — 2008)
• Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Vidyasagar University (2002 — 2006)