CV

Capri, Italy

Current Position

• 11/2025 – ongoing
  University of Oslo, Norway
  DSTrain-MSCA Postdoctoral Research Fellow
  Project: Stochastic Modeling of Natural Processes
  Collaborator: Thordis Linda Thorarinsdottir

Previous Positions

• 05/2025 – 10/2025
  Institut Denis Poisson, Université d’Orléans, France
  Postdoctoral Research Fellow with JUNON
  Project: Statistical Analysis of Environmental Data
  Collaborators: Didier Chauveau & Sophie Jacquot

• 05/2023 – 04/2025
  CREST, ENSAI, Bruz, France
  Postdoctoral Research Fellow
  Project: Machine learning and data mining of extreme values in massive data
  Collaborators: François Portier & Gilles Stupfler

Education

• 12/2019 – 06/2023
  PhD in Statistics (with doctor of Europaeus label), University of Padua, Italy.
  Thesis: On the modeling of discrete extreme values
  Advisors: Carlo Gaetan & Philippe Naveau

• 09/2015 – 07/2017
  MS Statistics with (gold medal + distinction), IIU, Islamabad, Pakistan.
  Thesis: Frequency Analysis of Extreme Rainfall in Pakistan using Classical and Bayesian Paradigms
  Supervisor: Ishfaq Ahmad

• 09/2013 – 07/2015
  MSc Statistics with (distintion), IIU, Islamabad, Pakistan.

Visiting Periods

• 09/2022 – 08/2022
  Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines University (UVSQ) and LSCE, Paris, France
  Joint research with Philippe Naveau on discrete extremes.

• 12/2022 – 02/2023
  University of Geneva, Research Institute for Statistics and Information Science
  Joint research with Sebastian Engelke on the project “Copula models for the entire range of discrete data with extreme observations (ongoing).”

Other Work Experience

• 02/2018 – 11/2019
  Higher Education Department Govt. of Punjab, Pakistan
  Lecture Statistics

• 07/2016 – 01/2018
  Department of Statistics, AIOU, Islamabad, Pakistan
  Teaching Assistant

Review Activities for Journals

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series C, Econometrics and Statistics, Environmental and Ecological Statistics, Journal of Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental Statistics, Environmental Science and Pollution Research, Heliyon, International Journal of Climatology

Skills

Programming Languages & Software:

• R: data wrangling, statistical modeling, data mining & machine learning, package development, data visualization (advanced)
• Python, SAS: statistical modeling (basic)
• MS Office Suite: advanced user
• LaTeX, Markdown: document creation and editing (proficient)
• Machine learning libraries: Keras, TensorFlow, Torch (basic)
• Version control: GitHub (usual user)

Languages

• Urdu and Punjabi: Mother tongue
• Italian: Basic (A1)
• French: Basic (A2)
• Norwegian: Basic (A1)
• English: Fluent (C1)

Detailed CV

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