Tariq Nisar has a Master's degree in Epidemiology and Biostatistics from Texas A&M University and a Bachelor's degree in Dental Surgery from College of Dental Sciences & Research Centre in Bhopal, India. He has worked as an epidemiology and biostatistics intern at the Department of State Health Services in Austin, Texas where he conducted regression analysis to study the association between oil and gas activity and fatal crashes in Texas. Currently he works as a biostatistician and bioinformatics data analyst at the Gastrointestinal Lab at Texas A&M where he has processed and analyzed genomic sequencing and metabolomics data from various treatment and placebo controlled drug and microbiota trials using software like SAS

1. TARIQ NISAR
4302, College Main St. Apt. 359, Bryan TX, linkedin.com/in/tariqnisar (979)-985-0948 tariq566@gmail.com
EDUCATION
Texas A&M University,College Station, TX Aug 2016
Master of Public Health - Epidemiology & Biostatistics, GPA 3.53
College ofDental Sciences& Research Centre, Bhopal, India Jun 2010
Bachelor of DentalSurgery, GPA 4.00
SKILLS
SAS, R, JMP, Stata,Metabolomics Analysis, Statistical Modelling, QIIME,Epi-info, Microsoft Access and Excel
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Department ofState Health Services,Austin TX Jun 2016-Current
Epidemiology & Biostatistics Intern
Research Objective: Association between Oil & Gas Activity in Texasand fatal crashes
 Conducted generalized least square regression and constructed negative binomial model using R
 Generated bar plots & 3-D pie charts of total number of deaths in fatalcrashes using R and prepared
statistical report for poster presentation in national conference
Gastrointestinal Lab,Texas A&M College ofVeterinary Medicine, College Station, TX Jun 2015-Current
Biostatistician & Bioinformatics Data Analyst
Treatment - Placebo Drug Trial:
Efficacy of newly formulated drug to treat Alzheimer Disease in animals
 Processed and filtered the DNA sequencing data and conducted linear & logistic regression analysis
 Generated 2-d and 3-d plots for rarefaction indices & prepared the statistical report for metabolomics
research
Microbiota - Pattern ofMice
Changes in microbial pattern of gastrointestinal tract in mice intervened with Rota Virus
 Processed and filtered the data from genotyping platform using QIIME
 Conducted regression analysis using R and summarized phylogenetic tree of micro-organisms
Treatment - Control Drug Trial (In collaboration with Ludwig Maximilians University Munich, Germany)
Drug Efficacy for Cross- breedsanimals
 Filtered and Pre-processed raw data from Illumina sequencing center using QIIME
 Conducted Non-Parametric-Wilcoxon, Post Hoc analysis using R and ANOSIM on O.T.U.
Microbiome Pattern (In collaboration with Ludwig MaximiliansUniversity Munich, Germany)
Differencesin microbiome of healthy and diseased cats
 Conducted linear and logistic regression, Post Hoc analysis and ANOSIM on levels of taxa summary.
 Calculated Q values and summarized the phylogenetic tree using R and uploaded the data in SRA ncbi
Probiotics Effects on Diseased Dogs
Differencesbetween probioticsof diseased dogs having lymphoma and undergoing chemotherapy
 Conducted logistic regression and Non-Parametric Multiple Comparison Wilcoxon Test using R
 Generated Heat Maps for compound symmetric correlation using R
Probiotics Effects on Healthy Dogs (In collaboration with Royal College of Veterinary Medicine,London)
Determining the effects of probiotics in the G.I. tract of healthy dogs
 Processed sequences from DNA sequencing center using QIIME and conducted regression analysis using R
PUBLICATIONS
 Peres,S. C.,Verona, D., Nisar, T., & Ritchey, P. (2016). Towards a Systematic Approach to Real-Time
Sonification Design for Surface Electromyography. Displays.
 Nisar, Tariq (2014). Medical management of oral submucous fibrosis. Journal of Indian Dental Association
Bhopal Branch, (1), 1.
ACHIEVEMENTS
 Abstract selected among 25,000 applicants on “Next Generation Statistics on Genomic Sequences” in TPHA
 National Institute of Health certified public health professional