Naim Rashid

Dr. Naim Rashid is an Associate Professor in the Department of Biostatistics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Gillings School of Global Public Health, with a joint appointment at the Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center. He specializes in developing statistical methodologies for cancer research, focusing on genomics, precision medicine, clinical trials, and machine learning applications in pancreatic and breast cancers. His work emphasizes improving replicability in gene signature selection and addressing missing data challenges in deep learning.

He holds a PhD in Biostatistics from UNC Chapel Hill (2013) and a BS in Biology from Duke University (2006). His awards include the Delta Omega Faculty Award (2021), IBM/R.J. Reynolds Junior Faculty Development Award (2017), and the Barry H. Margolin Dissertation Award (2013).

Rashid teaches advanced statistical computing and linear models. He leads the Biostatistics Shared Resource at Lineberger and co-directs cores for pancreatic and breast cancer research. His research spans clinical trial design, multi-study replicability, and translational cancer studies.