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General information:

Nationality: Saudi Arabian

Languages: Arabic and English

Academic qualification

    •    (2012) M.Sc. in Statistics (4.94 GPA), KSU- Riyadh- KSA. My master thesis was about modelling discrete life data.

    •    (2008) B.Sc. in Mathematics, KSU- Riyadh- KSA.  My final-year-project was on complex analysis.

    •    (2012 ) English for academic purposes, Southampton university-UK.

    •    (2011) Advanced level certificate in English as a foreign language, Midlands Academy-Leicester-UK.

work experience

    •    2011, Teaching assistant in the department of Statistics and operation research at King Saud University (Since 2011).

    •   Part time teaching assistant in the department of Statistics at The London School of Economics (since 2014).

    •    Teaching assistance at Princess Noura University as part of its preparatory year program (2009).
 

Volunteer work

    •    Cooperative teaching assistant-Department of Statistics and OR, KSU, 2010.

    •    Cooperative teaching assistant-Riyadh community college, KSU, 2009-2010.

Computer skills

    •    Experienced in Statistical packages (SAS, Minitab, SPSS and R).

    •    Extensive programming using Mathematica.

    •    Latex.

Courses, workshops and conferences:

• Conference: Prediction modelling in psychiatric research. King’s college London, July 15th 2016.
• Student conference: Quantitative genomics, 29 May 2015.
• Short course: Introduction to Bayesian analysis using WinBUGS. Cambridge,13-14 May 2015
• Conference: Methods for Longitudinal Data Analysis. London school of Economics, 8 Sep 2014.
• Summer course: The analysis of genetic association studies. King’s college London, 16-20 Jun 2014
• Workshop: Statistical genomics. Sheffield, UK. 11 April 2014.
• Conference: Statistical Mechanics. King’s college London. 20-21 May 2013.
• Conference: Women as global leaders. Zayed University, Abu Dhabi, UAE, 2012 .
• Scientific research skills Workshop, research centre of KSU, 2011.

Talks:

• Heritability estimation using matrix variate random models. European Mathematical Genetics Meeting (EMGM 2016), Newcastle.

• Heritability Estimation in Matrix-Variate Mixed models- A Bayesian Approach. Biostatistics dept, KCL 2015.
• Analysis of case-base-control designs. Medical and Molecular Genetics department, KCL Sep 2014.
• Analysis of case-base-control designs. Statistics department,LSE May 2014.
• On discrete gamma distribution. Mathematics department of KCL, January 2013.
• Spectra of covariance matrices for multiple time series. Mathematics department of KCL, June 2013.

Research :

• Elhazzani, Najla. S (2015). Heritability Estimation in Matrix-Variate Mixed models- A Bayesian Approach. http://arxiv.org/abs/1507.08638v1
• Elhazzani, Najla. S., Bergsma, W and Weale, M. (2014). Analysis of case-base-control design. 
• Spectra of sample covariance matrices for multiple time series (2013). 
• Abouammoh, A. M., and Najla S. Alhazzani. "On Discrete Gamma Distribution." Communications in Statistics-Theory and Methods 44.14 (2015): 3087-3098.
• M.Sc. thesis: Najla S. Alhazzani: Modeling discrete life data in reliability and its applications. Master thesis. King Saud University, Riyadh (2012). http://fac.ksu.edu.sa/sites/default/files/Alhazzani's%20thesis%20u.pdf. Part of thesis (discrete gamma distribution) is published in Communication in statistics-Theory and methods.