Dr Anas Ahmad Rana

Dr Anas Ahmad Rana

Department of Cancer and Genomic Sciences
Associate Professor Statistical Machine Learning
Deputy Section Lead Data Science & Bioinformatics

Contact details

Address
Department of Cancer and Genomic Sciences
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Dr Rana's research is driven by a commitment to understanding the mechanistic foundations of biological systems. Dr Rana develops and applies advanced mathematical models to examine state-specific properties and heterogeneity in complex cell populations, with a particular focus on stochastic processes and Machine Learning. Dr Rana has developed computational tools that help explore state transitions, genomic aberrations, and mutational processes. By integrating systems biology approaches with Bayesian non-parametric methods and machine learning data integration techniques, Dr Rana aims to better understand the interplay of genetic and epigenetic information underlying disease progression, ultimately contributing to new hypotheses for diagnostic and therapeutic strategies.

Dr Rana is the Deputy Section Lead for Data Science and Bioinformatics.

Dr Rana is the Programme Lead for Bioinformatics Online  and teach a few modules across MSc Bioinformatics and MSc Health Data Science deliveries. 

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Qualifications

  • PhD Physics with Complexity Science 2014,  University of Warwick (Thesis: Stochastic models for cell populations undergoing transitions)
  • MSc Complexity Science 2010, University of Warwick
  • MSCi Physics 2009, Imperial College London

Biography

Dr Rana studied physics as an undergraduate with a dissertation on complex quantum mechanical systems at the University of Heidelberg. He then completed a masters in complexity science from Warwick, before receiving a PhD Stochastic models for cell populations undergoing transitions from the University of Warwick, part of the work was completed at the The Netherlands Cancer Institute (NKI) in Amsterdam. He has held a number of positions at the University of Oxford and the University of Birmingham since then.

Teaching

MSc Bioinformatics Online 

  • Programme Director
  • Module 13: Individual Project (Module Lead)

Deputy Module Lead

  • Module 3: Introduction to probabilities
  • Module 4: Essentials of statistical modelling

MSc Bioinformatics & MSc Health Data Science 

  • Essentials of Mathematics, and Statistics (Module Lead)

MSc Bioinformatics - Dubai & MSc Health Data Science - Dubai 

  • Essentials of Mathematics, and Statistics

Postgraduate supervision

Dr Rana is always looking for interested and motivated PhD students within my preferred research areas. Please contact Dr Rana directly via email.