Date:  Wednesday, August 20, 2025

Time: 11.00 AM

Venue: AUB Seminar Room

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A brief biography of Shajahan Khan

Dr Shahjahan Khan is an Emeritus Professor, University of Southern Queensland (UniSQ), AUSTRALIA; Vice Chancellor, Asian University of Bangladesh; Expatriate Fellow, Bangladesh Academy of Sciences; Founding Chief Editor, Journal of Applied Probability & Statistics; Past President, Islamic Countries Society of Statistical Sciences (ISOSS); Past Director, Muslim Community Cooperative Australia. UniSQ, Australia introduced Professor Shahjahan Khan Scholarship in his honor. He received PhD (1992) & MSc degrees from Western University, Canada; and MSc & BSc Hons degrees from Jahangirnagar University, Bangladesh. He was awarded Commonwealth Scholarship in 1984. He is an elected Fellow, Royal Statistical Society, UK; Member, International Statistical Institute, Netherlands; Institute of Mathematical Statistics, USA; and Statistical Society of Australia. He received prestigious Q M Hossain (2012), ISESCO (2001), and ISOSS (2007), Gold Medals; and Queensland Cultural Diversity Ambassador, Queensland Police Services and UniSQ Diversity & Inclusion Awards.

He taught at Western University, Canada; University of Dhaka; King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals; Sultan Qaboos University; and University of Bahrain.

As the President of ISOSS, he organized successful conferences in Bangladesh, Malaysia, Egypt, Qatar, Indonesia, and Pakistan. ISOSS organised an international conference in Lahore in his honour (2011).

His research areas: systematic review, meta-analysis, public health, statistical inference, multivariate/linear models. He published over 250 papers, presented 20 workshops, 32 keynote addresses, and over 60 invited talks. He supervised 20 PhD students & examined 40 PhD theses.

His “Meta-Analysis” book has over 41k downloads and “Statistical Methods and Models” (2025) is also by Springer.

He was ranked 49 among the most influential people in Toowoomba, Queensland.

He visited Tokyo University; National University of Singapore; Carleton University; Calcutta University; University of Malaya, Malaysia; Bogor Agricultural University, Indonesia; and Karachi University. He worked in 10 different countries in Australia, Europe, North America, Southeast Asia, and Middle East, and travelled to over 30 countries.