Josip Derado

• Reviewed protocols, manuscripts, and other documents, assuring their statistical integrity (including analyzing study designs, sampling and data analysis methodology)
• Provide technical assistance(study designs, sampling, statistical data analysis), to researchers in Division of Global HIV and TB at HQ and at PEPFAR countries field offices
• Conduct statistical Analysis on the research projects (sample list:)
• DREAMS Lesotho: A program to improve HIV diagnosis among young women and adolescent girls - conducted comparison( using Poisson modeling) of the outcome results between DREAMS and non-DREAMS regions
• Zambia ALERE Project – dataset analysis; propensity score matched weighting and mixed effects regression modelling to estimate outcome differences pre- intervention and post- intervention, and to identify MIP characteristics predictive of vertical transmission of HIV
• Vietnam Transition Project-evaluating post-PEPFAR transitional period in Vietnam- conducted analysis of patient and health workers questionnaire on outcomes of transitional period
• Haiti TB Treatment success after Hurricane Matthew- conducted analysis of TB treatment disruption rates after hurricane Matthew
• Developed and conducted training sessions on Developing Protocols for Research Studies with Focus on Statistical Concepts to Associate Directors of Science in PEPFAR countries
• Supervised and mentored Emory graduate students in Rollins Earn And Learn Program(REAL) and Ferguson RISE fellows
• Analyzed confidentiality issues with in publicly available datasets (e.g
• Population-Based HIV Impact Assessment)
• Member of CDC Shepards Award committee and Peavy Award Committee- rated papers and conducting raters analysis
• Collaborated with developers on designing team’s SharePoint site and its workflow
• CITI certification training- Completed Human Research - Biomedical Research and RCR Combined-expiration date June 2026

• Re-designed and Taught on-line course BIOS503 Introduction into Biostatistics for Executive Master of Public Health(2023)
• Enhanced student engagement in public health subjects by developing and implementing interactive learning sessions. Used SAS-studio to Analyze public health datasets.
• Taught Statistical Methods I and II, BIOS500Lab and BIOS501Lab for Master of Public Health Program

Used SAS to analyze public health datasets

• Taught a wide range of courses (42 different ones), including Probability and Data Analysis, Statistical Methods
• Conducted over 20 directed studies and undergraduate research projects
• Awarded 9 grants as PI or Co-PI
• For details see long version of the resume
• Published five papers and presented research results at 18 conferences
• Give over 20 colloquium talks
• Relevant Research Projects: Grow-Baby-Grow, Creation of Longitudinal BMI Growth Curves for Premature Born babies in NICU
• My role: Designing of General additive model for the longitudinal curves based on data set with over 200,000 infants and over 4,000,000 observations
• Informatics Platform for Global Proteomic Profiling and Biomarker Discovery Using Liquid Chromatography – Tandem Mass Spectrometry (collaboration with Emili Labs, Toronto)
• My role: developed image processing algorithms to analyze data obtained by mass spectrometry and liquid chromatography
• Point Reward System (PRS) A new Assessment system for classes with high diversity in learning abilities and interest
• My role: designed, created, and implemented PRS
• Perform statistical analysis of the data, qualitative and quantitative
• Involved in creating the survey, interviews, and collection of data
• Undergraduate Research Projects: Optical Character Recognition- developed and implemented machine learning algorithm for reading hand-written text
• Rice Counting- developed and implemented algorithm for counting small objects in an image, e.g
• Bacteria in Petri dish
• Weather Forecasting- developed and implemented Time Series Pattern Recognition Model for Weather Forecasting
• Professional Service: University Senator, a member of University Curriculum Policy Committee, a member of KSU Math Circles, in charge of Math Talks, Departmental Colloquium, a member and a chair of Search Committees

• Taught Multivariable Calculus and Linear Algebra
• Conducted Research as a member of Wavelets, Frames and Operators Research Group
• My role: implementation of Wavelets in Image Processing

• Taught variety of math courses
• TRIO Program Math Instructor (summers 1995 – 1998)
• TRIO Program Math Coordinator (Summer 1999)
• Created and taught two weeks course on mathematics for business(Winter 1997,1999)

• Company Overview: Zagreb, Croatia
• System and Network Administrator for University Computing System( in charge of maintaining variety of operating systems including IBM/VM360 and DEC VAX)
• A member of the team who created, developed and implemented Croatian Academic Network (CARNet)
• Designed, created and maintained research databases
• Consulted researchers on the use of mathematical algorithms in data analysis
• Conducted training on the use of internet tools and operating systems in research
• Zagreb, Croatia

• Developed and tested software tools for HERA(Hadron-Elektron-Ring-Anlage) at DESY, Hamburg