About Utkarsh

Utkarsh is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Sciences at Carleton University. He is a biostatistician and data scientist who works in health outcomes, clinical trials, biomarkers, and statistical/machine learning. 

Utkarsh's work in health outcomes is on understanding phenotypic, genotypic, and treatment response variability in two progressive diseases: Duchenne and Becker muscular dystrophy (DMD and BMD, respectively). 

His work in clustering involves developing novel mixture models with applications in model-based clustering and classification. 

Utkarsh's research is funded by NSERC, NIH, DOD, and Foundation to Eradicate Duchenne.

Research Opportunities: Prospective students are welcome to contact me via email.