Dr. Mallick is a data scientist and computational biologist with almost two decades of experience in Statistics, Biostatistics, and AI/ML in academia and industry. He has served as a collaborative Biostatistician in several large, multi-center studies including the REGARDS study and the NIH integrative Human Microbiome Project (iHMP). He has a highly cited publication track record with over 40+ publications in top-tier scientific journals including Nature and Lancet as well as top health science journals such as Statistics in Medicine and PLoS Computational Biology. He is the lead developer of popular bioBakery tools including MelonnPan (>150 citations) and MaAsLin2 (>30K official downloads), both regularly used in large-scale, microbiome multi-omics studies. His methodological research interests are in Bayesian statistics, machine learning, and omics data science methods including multi-omics integration, microbiome, single-cell, spatial transcriptomics, imaging, and digital pathology. He has served as a mentor to three Ph.D. students in Biostatistics and numerous summer interns over the years. A recipient of the IISA Early Career Award in Statistics in Data Sciences (ECASDS), Himel is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association (FASA) and an Elected Member of the International Statistical Institute.