Raju Rimal
Statistician/ Data scientist
Driving licence class B
Research
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Oslo
Faculty of Medicine, Department of Biostatistics
Oslo, Norway
Nov 2020–Now
Analyzing the trend of melanoma incidence and survival by tumour thickness in Norway overall and within different prognostic factors such as sex, age, anatomic site, and melanoma subtypes.
Ph.D. Candidate, Norwegian University of Life Sciences
Faculty of Chem., Biotech. and Food Science,
Ås, Norway
Aug. 2015–Oct. 2019
Developing a versatile tool for simulating multi-response data from a linear model.
Consulting & Advising
Senior Consultant, Norwegian University of Life Sciences
Cenral Adminstration,
Ås, Norway
Nov. 2019–May. 2020
Mapping the research works of NMBU to the SDG goals of UN is the primary objective of this project. Creating web-application from scratch and analysing & visualizing the collected data has been an exciting experience.
Consultant, Norwegian University of Life Sciences
Learning Center,
Ås, Norway
Nov. 2016–Mar. 2018
Providing statistical advice and tips about data analysis and preparation to the bachelors, masters and other PhD students was both exciting and challenging job where I encountered problems from many disciplines such as animal sciences, plant sciences and econometrics.
Teaching
Norwegian University of Life Sciences
Ås, Norway
Theoretical Statistics II
Spring 2020
Planning and perparation of the complete course, prepare exercises, assignments and examination.
Applied Methods in Statistics
Autumn 2018
Involved in lecturing the part of the course including classification and descrimination.
Design of Experiment and Analysis of Variance
August 2017
Involved in lecturing the part of the course including classification and descrimination.
Teaching Assistant
Norwegian University of Life Sciences
Ås, Norway
Applied Methods in Statistics
Autumn of 2016, 2017, and 2018
Regression Analysis
January of 2014, 2016, and 2017
Design of Experiment and Analysis of Variance
August of 2013, 2015, 2016, and 2017
Working closely with students and preparing exercises for the course helped me not only to understand and solve students’ problems but also gave me ideas on how to construct lectures, exercises and other activities for future courses. The experience has also helped me to clearly understand many basic statistical concepts.
IT Support
Election Commission Nepal
Aug 2011–July 2012
Postal Service Department, Nepal
Mar 2005–Aug 2011
Dissertations and Publications
Thesis
Rimal, Raju. Exploration of Multi-Response Multivariate Methods PhD thesis. Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Ås, 2019.
Rimal, Raju. Evaluation of models for predicting the average monthly Euro versus Norwegian krone exchange rate from financial and commodity information. MS thesis. Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Ås, 2014.
Papers
Rimal, Raju, Almøy Trygve, and Sæbø Solve. A tool for simulating multi-response linear model data. Chemometrics and Intelligent Laboratory Systems 176 (2018): 1-10.
Helland, Inge S., Sæbø, solve, Almøy, Trygve and Rimal, Raju, 2018. Model and estimators for partial least squares regression. Journal of Chemometrics, 32(9), p.e3044.
Rimal, R., Almøy, T., & Sæbø, S. (2019). Comparison of multi-response prediction methods. Chemometrics and Intelligent Laboratory Systems, 190, 10-21.
Rimal, Raju, Almøy, Trygve, and Sæbø Solve. 2019. Comparison of multi-response estimation methods Chemometrics and Intelligent Laboratory Systems 205 (2020) 104093
Conference Participation
Trends in melanoma tumour thickness in Norway, 1983–2019
ANCR Symposium, 2022
Tórshavn, Faroe Islands, Poster presentation
Long-term Trend on Tumour Thickness of Melanoma in Norway
NOFE Conference 2021
Bergen, Norway, Presentation
Long-term trend in melanoma tumour thickness in Norway
Tenth World Congress of Melanoma in Conjunction with 17th EADO Congress
Virtual (Online), Poster presentation
Simrel-M: Simulation tool for multi-response linear model data
The 26th Nordic Conference in Mathematical Statistics (NordStat 2016)
Copenhagen, Denmark, Poster presentation
Simrel-M: A simulation tool and its application
The 19th national meeting of statistics (Norske Statistikermøtet)
Fredrikstad, Norway, Presentation
A versatile tool for simulating linear model data
UseR! 2018 Conference
Brisbane, Australia, Presentation
A comparison of multi-response prediction methods
Scandinavian Symposium on Chemometrics (SSC16) Conference
Oslo, Norway, Presentation
Multimatrix Extension of Partial Least Square
The first annual conference of NORBIS
Rosendal Fjordhotel, Norway, Poster presentation
Academic Qualifications
Doctor of Philosophy in Applied Statistics
Norwegian University of Life Sciences
Ås, Norway
2015–2019
Masters in Bioinformatics and Applied Statistics
Norwegian University of Life Sciences
Ås, Norway
2012–2015
Masters in Statistics
Tribhuwan University, Central Department of Statistics
Kathmandu, Nepal
2007–2009
Bachelors in Physics and Statistics
Tribhuwan University, Tri-candra Campus
Kathmandu, Nepal
2003–2007
IT skills
Advanced user of R and comfortable with Matlab and Python in most situations.
advanced
R, Python, LaTeX, Knitr, Rmarkdown, Web Technologies, Microsoft Office, Stata
comfortable
Git, JavaScript, Minitab, Matlab, Docker, SQL, Bash, Linux, D3, Graphics Design
elementary
Julia, SPSS, SVG
- Data cleaning and wrangling
- Interactive shiny application with R
- Reproducible workflow
- Version control and testing
- Data visualization
- Web development and deployment
Scientific skills
- Data cleaning and wrangling
- Interactive shiny application with R
- Reproducible workflow
- Version control and testing
- Data visualization
- Web development and deployment
Interpersonal skills
- Data cleaning and wrangling
- Interactive shiny application with R
- Reproducible workflow
- Version control and testing
- Data visualization
- Web development and deployment
| Reading | Writing | Speaking | Listening | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nepali | Native | Native | Native | Native |
| English | Excellent | Excellent | Excellent | Excellent |
| Hindi | Very Good | Good | Good | Excellent |
| Norwegian | Novice (A2) | Novice (A2) | Novice (A2) | Novice (A2) |
I like hiking, cycling, and photography. In my free time I also play lego and make crafts together with my son. I like programming and like to explore new programming language