Dr. Raheem is a data scientist and statistician with over 20 years of analytic experience in academia and industry combined. He has taught graduate-level statistics and machine learning courses at US universities. Currently, as a Principal Data Scientist at a CRO, he provides strategic guidance for the use of real-world data (RWD), their validations, and use of algorithms to derive real-world evidence (RWE) for evaluation of drugs and biologics. Dr. Raheem has extensive experience working with massive healthcare claims data as well as electronic health records (EHR) in a Hadoop/Hive environment. He uses Python and PySpark for machine learning and distributed computing in the AWS Elastic Cloud platform. He is equally proficient with R and SAS. Dr. Raheem served as a faculty at University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, University of Northern Colorado, University of North Carolina at Charlotte (adjunct) and University of Dhaka.