CURRICULUM VITEA. Father Name: Awal Sher(Late) N.I.C. No:

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1 ZAFAR MAHMOOD Personal Information CURRICULUM VITEA Postal Address: Department of Maths/Stats, The University of Agricultural Peshawar (Pakistan) Home Address: H.No.353, Street No.5, N-2, Phase-IV, Hayatabad Peshawar (Pakistan) Phone No: , /Ext 3178 Mobile: Father Name: Awal Sher(Late) Religion: Islam Nationality: Pakistani N.I.C. No: Education PhD (Statistics) Year: 2010 Course work (3.70 CGPA) University of Peshawar, Pakistan University of Rochester, USA M.Sc (Statistics) Year: 1994 Division: 1 st Gomal University D.I. Khan B.Sc (Maths-A, Physics, Statistics) Year: 1991 Division 1 st University of Peshawar F.Sc(Pre-Engg., Additional Maths) Year: 1989 Division 1 st BISE Peshawar S.S.C (Science Group) Year: 1986 Division 1 st BISE Peshawar

2 Other Education B.Ed. (Science) Year: 1996 Division 1 st AIOU Islamabad A special Course on Applied Econometrics from to at Faculty of Rural Social Sciences NWFP Agricultural University Peshawar, Duration: Four months Diploma in Computer Science and IT Skill Development Council, Ministry of Labor & Manpower, Pakistan Duration: One year PhD Research Project Completed Department of Biostatistics and Computational Biology, University of Rochester, USA in 2007/2008 Awards received An indigenous Scholarship for PhD in Scholarship to visit USA for advance research in 2007.

3 Research/Teaching Interests: Applied Statistics/Biostatistics, Computational Statistics Designing of Experiments and Data Collection Statistical Modeling Regression Analysis Data Simulation Resampling Model Selection Strategies Data Collection Strategies in Biological Sciences Research in Medical and Biological Sciences Research in Social and Agriculture Sciences Courses Taught Descriptive and Inferential Statistics, Survival Analysis Biostatistics and Probability, Advance Regression Analysis, Applied Regression Analysis, Econometrics, Robust Model Selection, Computational Statistics, Descriptive and Inferential Biostatistics, Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Research, Biostatistics and Medical Writing, Statistics in Educational Research Business Mathematics and Statistics, Business Research Methods, Sampling Methods, Experimental Design, Advance Experimental Design, Population and Demographic Studies, Categorical Data Analysis, Robust Statistics, Logic and Social Research Methods, Statistical Quality Management Projects: (1) A project submitted to HEC under National Research Program for Universities (NRPU) is in progress Project Title: Post Flood Nutritional Status of Pre-school and School going Children from Flood Hit Areas of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Pakistan (2) A project submitted to HEC under National Research Program for Universities (NRPU) is accepted. Project Title: Analyzing Flood Impacts on Waterborne Pathogens and Diarrhea in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Pakistan Books: Resampling Techniques in Regression Analysis for Model Simplification: Model Selection Strategies LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing: ISBN

4 Students supervising as Major Supervisor (MPhil level) = 03(Statistics) and 05 (Education in City University): Member(Minor) = >20 (Mphil in Agriculture Sciences) + 4 in Management Sciences Projects = 4 (1 in progress + 1 accepted + 2 submitted) Professional experience [ 1995-continue ] The University of Agriculture Peshawar Faculty Member Designation: Associate Professor [ ] IBMS Agricultural University Peshawar [ ] [Jan, 1999 to Dec, 1999] UGC Funded Project Analyzing Daily Part time Researcher Rainfall Data in NWFP

5 Other Professional Experience Eighteen & a half years professional experience of teaching and research to graduate/postgraduate levels of students in Agricultural University Peshawar. Teaching experience of Advance Statistics and Applied Statistics to MPhil/PhD scholars of Agricultural Sciences, Animal Science and Biotechnology & Genetics. Teaching experience of Robust Statistics and Data Processing and Computer Programming to MPhil scholars in the Department of Statistics, University of Agricultural Peshawar. Teaching experience of Designing of Experiment to B.Sc(Hons) and M.Sc(Hons) Students. Teaching experience of Computational Statistics, Biostatistics Population Sudies, Statistical Quality Management and Survival Analysis to M.Sc Statistics Students. Teaching experience of Descriptive and Inferential Statistics to B.Sc(Hons) students. Teaching experience of Biostatics to DVM students Teaching experience of Business Statistics to BBA and MBA students in IBMS, Agricultural University Peshawar. Experience of teaching research methodology and data handling techniques in various workshops to Doctors and Managers. One year research experience as Research Officer in the UGC project of Analysis of Daily Rainfall Data to give Agronomically Useful results. One-year experience of financial analysis for Pakistan Engineering Pvt. Ltd..Guiding Mphil., PhD scholars, and B.Sc. (Hons), M.Sc. (Hons) students of Agricultural University while doing their Research work and analyzing their collected data using various statistical packages like MSTATC, SPSS, SAS, R, MINITAB and SHAZAM etc.

6 Guiding Mphil. And PhD scholars of statistics in the Department of Maths, Stats & C.Sc., The University of Agriculture Peshawar, Department of Statistics University of Peshawar, AIOU and Benazir Women University Peshawar. Analyzing the data in the field of Medical Sciences for Doctors while doing their research work and writing dissertation. Research experience as PhD scholar in the Department of Biostatistics and Computational Biology University of Rochester, New York, USA. Additional professional activities Member of Board of Studies (BOS) in the Department of Agronomy Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Agricultural University Peshawar. Member of Board of Studies (BOS) in the Department of Agricultural Mechanization Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Agricultural University Peshawar. Member of Board of Studies (BOS) in IDS, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Agricultural University Peshawar. Member of Board of Studies (BOS) in the Department of Water Management, The University of Agriculture Peshawar. Co-Opt member of Board of Study (BOS) in the Department of Human Nutrition KP Agricultural University Peshawar. Member of Graduate Studies Committee in the Department of Statistics, University of Peshawar. Member of Graduate Studies Committee in the subject of Statistics Benazir Women University, Peshawar. Member of Board of Studies (BOS) in the Department of Mathematics City University of Science and Information Technology Peshawar. Convener quantification committee of students admission for the session 2014 in the University of Agriculture Peshawar. Performing duties as Student Proctor in The University of Agriculture Peshawar.

7 Performed Administration duties as Incharge Computer Lab. Performed examination duties as Hall Incharge in The University of Agriculture Peshawar and University of Peshawar Performed examination duties as external examiner in the practical examination of B.Sc and M.Sc students of Peshawar University and Gomal University D.I. Khan. Set and examined papers for B.Sc., B.Sc(Hons), M.Sc, M.Sc(Hons) and Mphil/PhD Students of various Universities. Member oral exam of a PhD scholar ijn the Department of Agronomy, The University of Agriculture Peshawar. Assistant Election Officer for the Agriculture University Teachers Association (AUTA). Evaluated a research paper for an impact factor journal (J. of Applied Statistics, UK)

8 Workshops/Seminars Deliver a lecture on Biostatistics as resource person in 3-day training workshop on the Field Layout and Statistical Data Analysis Techniques held on September 25-27, 2012 in NIFA, Peshawar Participated in a three days International Workshop on Computational Methods in Mathematics organized by COMSTECH held on May 7-9, 2012 in Islamabad. Participated in a five days workshop organized by Department of Statistics University of Peshawar held in August 2010 and present some of my research work in robust regression. Participated in a two days workshop on Statistical data analysis organized by Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) Lahore held in March Participated in a Six days workshop on Modern developments in Statistics organized by International Society of Statistical Sciences (ISOSS) held in Lahore Dec Participated in a Five days workshop on Statistical Data Handling Techniques organized by Deptt of Statistics University of Peshawar in collaboration with HEC in Bara Gali Summer Campus held in July Participated in a three days workshop on Poverty Alleviation through Sustainable Agriculture Development held on July, 2002 at Bara Gali Summer Campus organized by AUTA. Participated in the First National Seminar on Recent Development in Statistics in Bara Gali Summer Campus in August, 1995

9 Conferences Participated in a Civil Society Forum/Conference to generate a discourse on the Need of Compulsory Immunization for Healthy Future and to chalk out a concrete role for the Civil Society in highlighting Immunization importance and bringing it at the priority list of our policy makers legislate held in Islamabad on Friday, May 30, 2014 organized by FFBT in collaboration with UNICEF and partners Participated in the 3rd Annual IGC South Asia Growth Conference, held on March, 2014 in Lahore organized by International Growth Centre (IGC). Presented a paper Resampling Method for the Adaptive Choice of Tuning Constant and Variable Selection in Robust Regression in the 12 th Islamic Countries Conference on Statistical Sciences (ICCS-12) at Qatar University, Doha (2012). My paper Cross-Validation Technique for the Choice of Stopping Criterion and Model Selection in Stepwise Logistic Regression has been presented in International Conference in USA, (2010) My paper On the Use of K-fold Cross-Validation to Optimize Cutoff Values and Asses the Performance of Predictive Models in Stepwise Regression has been accepted for presentation in International Conference on Statistical Sciences held in Washington DC, USA (2009) My paper A Cross-Validation Approach to Optimize Unequal Cutoff Values in Stepwise Regression has been presented in International Islamic Countries Conference on Statistical Sciences held in Malaysia (2008) Attended a Four days international Islamic countries conference on Statistical Sciences held in FAST Lahore in Dec: 2005 organized by ISOSS.

10 Computer Skills MS. Office Fortran C++ Internet Statistical Packages. MSTATC, SPSS, MINITAB, SAS, SHAZAM, NCSS, STATIX, R and S+

11 Publications Biological Control of Sugarcane Top-Borer, Scirpophaga excerptalis (Walker) (Lepidoptera: Crambidae) Through Different Release Levels of Telenomus benejiciens (Zehntner) (Hymenoptera: Scelionidae). J. of Agric. Sc. & Tech. Vol. 16, No. 3, (2014). Effect of Socio-Economic Interventions Made by Sungi Development Foundation on the Rural Community of District Battagram (A case study of three selected villages). Sarhad J. Agric. Vol.30, No.1 (2014). Biological Evidences for the Establishment of Alien Pectinophora Gossypiella Saunders (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae), in the Yangtze River Region of China. Sarhad J. Agric. Vol.28, No.2 (2012). Modeling the Daily Rainfall Amounts of North-West Pakistan for Agricultural Planning. Sarhad J. of Agric. Vol.27 (2), (2011). A Cross-Validation Approach to Optimize Unequal Cutoff Values in Stepwise Regression. Pak. J. Satatis. Vol. 27(2), (2011). Causes of Unemployment Among the Educated Segments in Peshawar Division, Pakistan: A Statistical Study. Sarhad J. of Agric. Vol.27 (1), (2011). Determination of Ambient Air Quality Status of Hayatabad Township, Peshawar, Pakistan. Int. J. Contemp. Resear. In Bussi. Vol. 3(2), 2011 Training Needs of Agriculture Officers Regarding Mechanized Farming in Pakistan. Sarhad J. of Agric. Vol.27 (4), (2011)..Workforce Ethics in Organization Procedure and Practices. Int. J. Contemp. Resear. In Bussi. Vol. 3(3), 2011 Grain Production as Influenced by Planting Pattern in Maize Sarhad J. of Agric. Vol.27 (3), (2011).

12 On the Use of K-fold Cross-Validation to Optimize Cutoff Values and Asses the Performance of Predictive Models in Stepwise Regression. The Int. J. of Biostat. Vol. 5, Issue 1 (25) (2009). Self-Perceived Level of Rural Youth Regarding Social, Emotional and Intellectual characteristics in NWFP, Pakistan. Sarhad J. of Agric. Vol.24, No.1, (2008). Factors Affecting the Mobilization of Rural Women Through Sarhad Rural Support Program (SRSP) in District Peshawar Sarhad J. of Agric. Vol.24, No.1, (2008). Adjustments of the Treatments effects by Controlling Covariates in Agriculture Research. Sarhad J of Agric., Vol.23, No.2, (2007). Performance Evaluation of Extension Services of Livestock and Dairy Development Department in District Peshawar (NWFP). Sarhad J. of Agric. Vol.23, No.2, (2007). Satisfaction level of the Trainees Regarding the Training Programs Conducted by NRSP for Forming Community in Rawalpendi. Sarhad J.of Agric. Vol.23, No.2, (2007). General Problems Regarding Extension Services with Livestock and Dairy Farmers of Peshawar District, Pakistan. Sarhad J. of Agric. Vol.23, No.2, (2007). Evaluation of GDP, Savings and Investment Interaction through Simultaneous Equation System. Sarhad Journal of Agriculture Vol.22, No 4, , (2006). Effect of Potassium on Preflowering Growth of Gladiolus Cultivars. Journal of Agricultural and Biological Science.vol.1, No3, 36-46, (2006). To study the adoption of improved gram cultivation practices in Tehsil Takht-i-Nasrati, Karak. Sarhad Journal of Agriculture. Vol. 19, No. 1, (2003). Role of Extension Agent in the Diffusion of date Palm Cultivation in the Distt. Panjgur. Sarhad Journal of Agriculture. Vol.19, No.4, (2003).

13 Cross-Validation Technique for the Choice of Stopping Criterion and Model Selection in Stepwise Logistic Regression (Accepted in European Journal of Scientific Research) Determination of Main Causes Unemployment Among the Educated People: An Odds Ratio Analysis (Accepted in European Journal of Social Sciences). A Resampling Algorithm to Determine Best Stopping Criterion and Variable Selection in Cox s Proportional Hazard Model (Submitted to J. of Applied Statistics) Resampling Method for the Adaptive Choice of Tuning Constant and Variable Selection in Robust Regression (Submitted to Pak. J. Satatis.) Estimation of Basic Food Needs Poverty in Hayathabad Township, Peshawar, Pakistan (Submitted to Sarhad Journal of Agriculture). Analysis of Onion Production and Its Distribution in District Muzafarabd, Pakistan. (Submitted to Sarhad Journal of Agriculture). Gender Analysis Regarding Agricultural Activities in KPK- Pakistan. (Submitted to Sarhad Journal of Agriculture).