• Postdoctoral Scholar (Research Associate) – University of Southern California, ATRI of Keck School of Medicine, San Diego, USA, 2016 – Present.

• PhD in Biomedical Sciences (Direction Biostatistics) – Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KUL), Belgium, 2009 – 2013.

• Master of Statistics: Biostatistics (Distinction) – Universiteit Hasselt (UHasselt), Belgium, 2007 – 2009.

• BSc (Hons) Mathematics (First Class) – Kwame Nkrumah University of Science & Technology (KNUST), Kumasi, Ghana, 2001 – 2005.

• Senior Secondary School Certificate Examination (SSSCE) – Lawra Senior Secondary School (Lawsec), Lawra, Ghana, 1997 – 1999.

• Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) – Lawra Junior Secondary School, Lawra, Ghana, 1994 – 1996.

• One-Day Conference by the San Diego Chapter of the American Statistical Association (SDASA), San Diego, USA. March 08, 2017. » more information

• 30th European Meeting of Statisticians, VU Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands. July 07, 2015.

• 34th Annual Conference of the International Society for Clinical Biostatistics, Munich, Germany. August 25-29, 2013. » more information

• 28th International Workshop on Statistical Modelling, Palermo, Italy. July 8-12, 2013. » more information

• 20th Meeting of Belgian Statistical Society (BSS 2012), University of Liège, Belgium. October 24-26, 2012. » more information
  27th International Workshop on Statistical Modeling, Prague, Czech Republic, July 16-20, 2012.

• Modern Modelling Methods Conference, University of Connecticut, USA. May 22-23, 2012.

• 19th Annual Meeting of Belgian Statistical Society, Hasselt, Belgium. October 12-14, 2011.

• "Adaptive designs for clinical trials" by Frank Bretz (Novartis Pharma AG, Switzerland), Franz König (Medical University of Vienna; Austria), Tim Friede (University Medical Center Göttingen, Germany), Sue-Jane Wang (FDA USA). Organized by the 34th Annual Conference of the International Society for Clinical Biostatistics, Munich, Germany. August 25, 2013. » more information.

• "An Introduction to Structural Equation Modelling with the sem Package for R" by John Fox (Department of Sociology - McMaster University Hamilton, Ontario, Canada). Organized by the 28th International Workshop on Statistical Modelling, Palermo, Italy. July 7, 2013. » more information.

• Flanders Training Network for Methodology and Statistics, FLAMES Colloquium. Organized by FLAMES at KU Leuven, Belgium. June 26, 2013. » more information.

  • 1. "Sample Size and Power Calculations in Practice" by Geert Verbeke, I-BioStat, KU Leuven.

    2. "How (Not) To Design an Experiment" by Koen Rutten, BIOSYST – MeBioS, KU Leuven.

    3. "Discrete Choice Experiments: Design and Estimation" by Marjolein Crabbe, Research Centre for Operations Research and Business Statistics (ORSTAT), KU Leuven.

• Short course "From Chris’s Bag Of Tricks: About automatic reporting, packaging, distributing, and archiving statistical research" by Christian Ritter (SMCS-Universit´e Catholique de Louvain and Ritter & Danielson Consulting). Organized by BSS 2012, Liège, Belgium. October 24, 2012. » abstract.

• Doctoral level course on Goodness-of-Fit Tests, The organization of the short course is a joint initiative of the KU Leuven (LStat; G. Claeskens and I. Gijbels), UHasselt (P. Janssen), and UAntwerpen (A. Verhasselt), and takes place under the auspices of the FWO Scientific Research Group (WoG) on “Asymptotic theory for multidimensional statistics”, KU Leuven, Belgium. September 24-25, 2012. » more information.

  • 1. "The goodness-of-fit problem" by Prof. Dr. Olivier Thas (Ghent University). » more information .

    2. "Recent advances in goodness-of-fit for distribution and regression problems" by Prof. Dr. Juan Carlos Pardo-Fernadez (Unversity of Vigo, Spain). » more information.

    3. "Nonparametric checks of conditional moment restrictions" by Prof. Dr. Valentin Patilea (ENSAI, Rennes, France). » more information.

• “Introduction to Joint Models for Longitudinal and Survival Data with Applications in R” by Dimitris Rizopoulos (Erasmus University Medical Center). Organized by the 27th International Workshop on Statistical Modeling, Prague, Czech Republic. July 15, 2012. » more information.

• “Cautiously Adding Dynamics to Longitudinal Analyses” by Jack McArdle (Univ. of South Califonia). Organized at Modern Modelling Method Conference (Post-Conference Workshop), University of Connecticut, USA. May 24, 2012. » more details and slides.

• “Analysis of Longitudinal Social Network Data Using RSiena” by Prof. Tom Snijders (University of Oxford). Organized at Modern Modelling Method Conference (Pre-Conference Workshop), University of Connecticut, USA. May 21, 2012. » more information.

• “Bayesian analysis of longitudinal studies (theory and hands-on)” by Prof. Emmanuel Lesaffre. Organized at 3rd Bayesian Biostatistics Workshop (Bayes 2012), Aachen, Germany. May 9, 2012. » more information.

• “An Introduction to the Bootstrap: Panacea for Statistical Inference?” by Prof. Dr. Leopold Simar. Organized by LStat, KU Leuven, Belgium. April 23-24; 27, 2012. » more information.

• “Bayes 2011: Course on Adaptive Designs” by Fabian Tibaldi (GSKBio) & Astrid Jullion (rlenda). Organized at 2nd Applied Bayesian Biostatistics Workshop (Bayes 2011), Louvain-laNeuve, Belgium. April 27, 2011. » more information.

• “Short Course on Bayesian Data Analysis: From theory to application and back again” by Andrew Gelman. Organized by Research Group of Quantitative Psychology and Individual Differences, KU Leuven, Belgium. February 17, 2010. » more information and course material.

• “Applied Bayesian Nonparametrics: Two-day course” by Timothy Hanson and Alejandro Jara Vallejos. Organized by LStat, KU Leuven, Belgium. November 17-18, 2009. » more information.

• "Low-dose exposure and how to communicate about it". Seminar organized by Doctoral School 'Patient related and public health research', KU Leuven, Belgium. April 18, 2013.

• "Bayesian Nowcasting of Epidemic Curves" Seminar by Michael Hohle (Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany). Organized by Doctoral School 'Patient related and public health research', KU Leuven, Belgium. November 23, 2012. » more information.

• "Frailties in multi-state models: are they identifiable? Do we need them?" Seminar by Hein Putter (LUMC, University Leiden, The Nederlands). Organized by Doctoral School 'Patient related and public health research', KU Leuven, Belgium. November 16, 2012. » more information.

• “Hierarchical Bayesian method for combining multiple endpoints in comparative effectiveness research” Seminar by Prof. Brad Carlin (University of Minnesota) and Prof. Laura Hatfield (Harvard Medical School), Organized by Doctoral School 'Patient related and public health research', KU Leuven, Belgium. October 11, 2012. » more information.

• “Mixed Models and Modern Multivariate Methods in Linguistics.” Organized at Leuven Statistics Days, KU Leuven, Belgium. June 7-8, 2012. » more information and slides.

• “Interuniversity Attraction Pole (IAP) Workshop 5: Statistical Analysis of Association and Dependence in Complex Data.” Organized by IAP on Statistics and UCL group, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium. November 25, 2011. » more information.

• “Young Statisticians Afternoon” organized by Belgian Statistical Society (BSS), Holiday Inn Hotel, Hasselt, Belgium. October 12, 2011. » more information.

• “International Symposium on Recent Advances in Statistics and Probability” organized by Hasselt University in honor of Prof. Dr. Noel Veraverbeke, Belgium. May 19-20, 2011. » more information.

• “Bayes 2011: 2nd Applied Bayesian Biostatistics Workshop” organized by Bayes 2011, Louvain-laNeuve, Belgium. April 28-29, 2011. » more information.

• “Spring Symposium in Biostatistics: Joint Modeling Techniques” organized by Department of Biostatistics, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, Netherlands. March 11, 2011. » more information, abstracts and slides.

• “Interuniversity Attraction Pole (IAP) Workshop 4: Cross-fertilization within the IAP network” organized by IAP on statistics and IAP partner KUL1, KU Leuven, Belgium. Nov. 18-19, 2010. » more information.

• “Notebook Keeping” by Prof. Dr. Els Dequeker, May 29, 2012.

• “Career Development: Job Interviews” by HR One Pharma, May 8, 2012.

• “Information and Publication Skills: Information Management” by Jens De Groot, May 3, 2012.

• “How to publish your data” by Prof. Ben Nemery, April 20, 27, 2012.

• “Information and Publication Skills: Information Retrieval Module I” by Jens De Groot, April 19, 26, 2012.

• “Public health ethics” by Prof. Peter Donceel and Prof. Angus Dawson, February 29, 2012.

• “Writing for Medical Journals” by Staurt Spencer, Feb. 27, 2012.

• “Ethics in Science” by Ben Nemery and Kris Dierickx, Dec. 2, 2011.

• “How to prepare a poster presentation or an oral presentation” by P. Hoet, Jan. 23, 2011.

* all were held at KU Leuven, Belgium.

• "Ethics in Patient Education" by Prof. Dr. Helena Leino-Kilpi (Department of Nursing Science, University of Turku, Finland). Organized by Doctoral School 'Patient related and public health research', KU Leuven, Belgium. December 4, 2012. » more information.

• “A tale of two strippers: dicholoromethane – containing paint removers in the US and EU” by Prof. Dennis J. Shusterman (University of California), June 21, 2012.

• “Learning from the past to identify and control emerging workplace hazards” by Prof. Dr. Malcolm Sim, June 11, 2012.

• “Application of PKPD modelling to guide the development of new immunotherapies” by Prof. Joseph P. Balthasar, March 14, 2012.

• “Legally and ethically addressing the shortage of human gametes” by Dr. Shaun Pattinson, March 8, 2012.

• “Ethical aspects of using mentally incompetent persons and children as living organ sources” by Prof. Dr. Sigrid Sterckx, November 23, 2011.

• “Dendritic Cell Biology in Health and Disease” by Prof. Bart Lambrecht, November 17, 2011.

• “Ethics of cancer screening: information to persuation?” by Martin Hiele, November 14, 2011.

• “Physiological and Clinical Consequences of Physical Inactivity” by Prof. Frank W. Booth, November 9, 2011.

• “Are Hemichannels Good or Bad Protagonists During Cell Life” by Juan Saez, August 22, 2011.

• “Placebo effect in mouse models of neurodegenerative disease - Modeling neurodegeneration: what have we learned so far?” by Christopher Janus, April 6, 2011.

• “Enhancing Mammalian Regeneration” by Nadia Rosenthal, November 27, 2009.

• “The Long History of Emerging Occupational Diseases” by Paul D. Blanc, November 24, 2009.

* all lectures were held at KU Leuven, Belgium.