March 29, 2022
Speaker: Nusrat Rabbee, Lecturer, Department of Statistics, UC Berkeley and Vice-President at Alladapt, Inc
Moderator: Sanchita B. Saxena, Executive Director, Institute for South Asia Studies; Director, Subir and Malini Chowdhury Center for Bangladesh Studies; Lecturer, Responsible Business, Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley
Discussant: Lamia Karim, Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Oregon
Sponsors: The Subir & Malini Chowdhury Center for Bangladesh Studies, The Institute for South Asia Studies, Center for South Asia at Stanford University
A talk by Nusrat Rabbee, Lecturer, Department of Statistics, UC Berkeley and Vice-President at Alladapt, Inc
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Speaker Bio
Nusrat Rabbee is an American statistician working in biomedical research in drug development. Rabbee is the Vice President of Biometrics at Alladapt Immunotherapeutics, Inc. and a Lecturer of Statistics at the University of California at Berkeley. She holds a BA degree from Wellesley College, an MA degree from the University of California at Berkeley and a PhD from Harvard. She completed an NSF post-doctoral fellowship at Berkeley. She has been a faculty at the Department of Statistics at University of California at Berkeley since 2013. She is the author of the book, Biomarker Analysis in Clinical Trials With R, published March 2020 by Taylor and Francis. She is currently focusing on teaching Machine Learning methods and writing a book on this topic.
Rabbee is a published war historian with focus on the 1971 war of independence of Bangladesh. Her interest stems from her family history: her father, Dr. Mohammed Fazle Rabbee, was a leading physician (chief cardiologist) and progressive intellectual, who was abducted and killed by Pakistani army― hours before Bangladesh was liberated on 16th December 1971. Her mother, Dr. Jahan Ara Rabbee, was one of the first female physicians of Bangladesh, who helped re-build the country after the war. She has published The Spirit of 1971 - A Memoir of Dr. Mohammed Fazle Rabbee and Dr. Jahan Ara Rabbee in 2021 and translated into English War Heroines Speak: The Rape of Bangladeshi women in 1971 war of Independence in 2020.
Rabbee is a frequent writer and discussant about the history of Bangladesh - including a series of nine episodes about the incredible story of her family in 1971. She served as the star witness of the Intellectual Killing trials held in Dacca, Bangladesh in 2013 against the murderers of her father, Dr. Fazle Rabbee.
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