Assistant ProfessorDepartment of BiostatisticsSchool of Public HealthBoston University

Faculty AffiliateRafik B. Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science & Engineering

Core FacultyCenter for Brain Recovery

CV

Email

shariqm at bu dot edu

Office

Crosstown Center
Room CT303
801 Massachusetts Ave
Boston, MA 02118

I develop statistical and machine learning methods for biomedical and public health data with complex structure, such as medical images, shapes, curves, networks, and measurements that are correlated over space or time. Rather than reducing these data to a few summary numbers, I build models that work with them directly, drawing on Bayesian modeling, functional and geometric data analysis, and spatial statistics.

Much of this work is motivated by cancer and by Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias. Projects in my group include modeling tumor heterogeneity from imaging and genomic data, mapping spatial patterns in tissues and in community health, and analyzing digital cognitive tests to pick up subtle changes in cognition. We work closely with clinicians and other domain scientists.

Education and training

• 2018–2021Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Michigan
• 2018Ph.D. in Statistics, University of Connecticut
• 2017M.S. in Statistics, University of Connecticut
• 2014M.Sc. in Applications of Mathematics, Chennai Mathematical Institute
• 2012B.Math. (Hons.), Indian Statistical Institute

News

• Oct 2026I joined the Boston University Center for Brain Recovery as core faculty.
• Oct 2026A new R package, clocknet, for building networks from digital clock drawings.
• Sep 2026Daniel Cho started the PhD program in Biostatistics and Lin Tang the MS program in Biostatistics.
• Sep 2026Abhi Jain’s paper on modeling bounded well-being indices with Bayesian beta regression was accepted in Spatial Statistics.
• Sep 2026A new R package, BayesBadger, for spatio-temporal beta regression.
• Sep 2026A new NIH/NIA R01, DS-TO-THE-MAX, will follow the health of people with Down syndrome using Medicaid data. I am a co-investigator (PI Eric Rubenstein).

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Current funding

• NIH/NIAR03AG098551, PI Shariq Mohammed
• NIH/NIAR01AG073179, PI Eric Rubenstein
• NIH/NHGRIR01HG014487, PI Ruben Dries
• NIH/NIGMSR01GM127430, PI William E. Johnson

Service

• Editorial Board Member, Scientific Reports
• Associate Editor, Sankhyā B: The Indian Journal of Statistics (Official Journal of Indian Statistical Institute)
• Vice-President, Conferences Committee, New England Statistics Society (NESS)