Melvin Munsaka PhD, MSc, MEd

Dr. Melvin S. Munsaka Ph.D., MSc, MEd is a Senior Director and Head of the Safety Statistics Group at AbbVie in the Statistical Sciences Department. He has a Ph.D. in Mathematical Statistics from Queen’s University in Canada and an MSc in Mathematical Statistics and MEd in Mathematics from McGill University in Canada.

Melvin has been in the pharmaceutical industry for more than 20 years. He co-leads some initiatives of the Drug Information Association Bayesian Scientific Working Group Safety Subteam and some initiatives of the ASA Biopharmaceutical Section Safety Working Group. He is also the Publicity Chair of the Midwest Biopharmaceutical Statistics Workshop and has held positions of President, Program Chair, and Chapter Representative of the Northeast Illinois Chapter of the ASA and is Past Chair of the ASA Section for Statistical Programmers and Analysts and member-at-large of the Executive Committee of the ASA Biopharmaceutical Section.

Melvin is also the Secretary of the Board of Directors of the Chicago Public Schools Science Fair, Inc. He continues to pursue research in his areas of interest in statistics and computing and to explore ideas related to ML, AI, and NLP especially as they apply to drug safety. He is regularly involved in professional meetings and has contributed to conference presentations, book chapters and journal articles, and peer reviews journal articles.