Associate Professor
Epidemiology, Biostatistics & Environmental Health

Mohan D Pant

757-683-5972

3128 HAMPTON HALL
NORFOLK, 23508

Dr. Mohan Dev Pant is an Associate Professor of Data Science and Biostatistics in the Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics & Environmental Health within the Joint School of Public Health at 惇蹋圖. His current research interests include statistical computing, Bayesian statistics, and data science, and machine learning. He has published 32 peer-reviewed research articles in scholarly journals and given more than 40 research presentations at professional conferences such as the Joint Statistical Meetings of the American Statistical Association (ASA), Annual Meetings of the American Public Health Association (APHA), and the Annual Meetings of the American Educational Research Association (AERA).
Dr. Pant has been accredited as a professional statistician (PStat) by the American Statistical Association.
Dr. Pant has also served on the review panel of the National Science Foundation and as an ad-hoc reviewer of several scholarly journals.
He is also a member of the Fine Family Academy of VHS at 惇蹋圖.

Ph.D. in Statistics and Measurement, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, (2011)

M.Sc. in Statistics, Tribhuvan University, (1993)

B.Sc. in Statistics, Mathematics, Physics, Tribhuvan University, (1991)

Contracts, Grants and Sponsored Research

"Pant, M. D. (Co-PI). "Expert Contribution Recognition Ecosystem: Performance-Based Support for AI Research Advisory Group" (PI: El Moudden, I.)." $13,500. Local. August 2025 - July 2026
"Pant, M. D. (Co-I). "Developing Glycosylated RNAs as Novel Clinical Targets for Aggressive Prostate Cancer" (PI: Kerscher, A.)." $385,688. Federal. August 2023 - December 2025
"Pant, M. D. (Co-I). "Understanding, Improving & Tracking of Diabetes Care in the Western Tidewater Region of Virginia" (PI: Lieb, D.). " $800,000. Local. August 2022 - December 2025
"Pant, M. D. (Co-I). "Longitudinal Assessment of Academic Performance Based on Prior Academic Success in Physician Assistant Studies" (PI: Thibodeau, D.). Years: 2023-2024." $10,500. Higher Education. August 2023 - December 2024
"Pant, M. D. (Co-I). "Pathogenic Determinant Analysis of Community Associated Staphylococcus aureus in South Eastern Virginia" (PI: Sharp, J.)." $200,000. State. August 2022 - December 2024
"Pant, M. D. (Co-I). "Predicting Health Outcomes among Patients with Cancer in Virginia: A Population-based Analysis using Machine Learning" (PI: Galadima, H.). " $15,940. Local. January 2023 - December 2023
"Pant, M. D. (PI). "Predictive Modeling for Health Outcomes using Social Determinants of Health for the Hampton Roads Region." " $46,601. Local. January 2023 - December 2023
"Pant, M. D. (Co-I). "Molecular Dissection of a microRNA Cluster Network of Aggressiveness" (PI: Kerscher, A.)." $200,000. State. August 2020 - December 2022
"Pant, M. D. (Co-I). "Testing the Translational Potential of the microRNA miR-888 Cluster to Block Prostate Tumor Progression" (PI: Kerscher, A.). " $50,000. Local. August 2020 - December 2021

Research Interests

Statistical computing
Bayesian statistics
Data science
Machine learning

Articles

(2025). Rothkopf, M., Pant, M. D., Rothkopf, Z. S., Brown, R., Haselhorst, J., Gagliardotto, F., Stevenson, D., DePalma, A., Saracco, M. (2025). A pilot study on the use of a multi-morbidity index in patients receiving home parenteral nutrition.. Nutrition in Clinical Practice.
(2025). 1.Chakraborty, A., & Pant, M. D. (2025). Analyzing the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention mortality data using weekly exceedance in mortality count and weekly change in mortality indicator: A time series study.. Health Science Reports 8 (9) , pp. e71235.
(2025). Chakraborty, A., & Pant, M. D. (2025). Machine learning models for pancreatic cancer survival prediction: A multi-model analysis across stages and treatments using the surveillance, epidemiology, and end results (SEER) database.. Journal of Clinical Practice 14 (13).
(2025). Pant, M. D., Chakraborty, A., & El Moudden, I. (2025). Modeling non-normal distributions with mixed third-order polynomials of standard normal and logistic variables.. Mathematics 13 (6).
(2025). Chakraborty, A., & Pant, M. D. (2025). An analytical prior selection procedure for empirical Bayesian analysis using resampling techniques: A simulation-based approach using the pancreatic adenocarcinoma data from the SEER database.. Computation 13 (2).
  • 2024: Professional Enrichment and Growth (PEG) Award, Office of Faculty Affairs and Professional Development, Macon & Joan Brock Virginia Health Sciences at 惇蹋圖
  • 2020: Professional Enrichment and Growth (PEG) Award, Office of Faculty Affairs and Professional Development, Eastern Virginia Medical School
  • 2014: Summer Fellowship, LINK Lab Summer Fellows Program, University of Texas at Arlington
  • 2011: The Borgsmiller-Elmore Doctoral Scholar Award, College of Education and Human Services, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale
  • 2011: The Outstanding Research Award for Graduate Students, College of Education and Human Services, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale
  • 2010: The Borgsmiller-Elmore Doctoral Scholar Award, College of Education and Human Services, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale
  • 2010: The Francis "Jack" Kelly Scholarship Award for Doctoral Students, College of Education and Human Services, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale
  • 2009: The Borgsmiller-Elmore Doctoral Scholar Award, College of Education and Human Services, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale
  • 2009: The Outstanding Research Award for Graduate Students, College of Education and Human Services, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale

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