Nirmal Ghimire, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

School of Education

Associate Director,

K-16 Literacy Center

Nirmal Ghimire, completed a Ph.D. in Education [Teaching English to Students of Other Languages (TESOL) Track] with a focus on Teacher Education.  He currently serves as a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in the College of Education and Psychology at the University of Texas at Tyler. He also serves as Associate Director of the K-16 Literacy Center, where he engages in research aimed at strengthening literacy instruction and improving students’ literacy achievement outcomes.

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Nirmal is an educational sciences researcher with a strong interest in data science. He has a solid understanding of fundamentals of research design and statistical analyses having taken an array of basic and advanced research design and statistical analyses courses as a part of my doctoral degree (e.g., Monte Carlo Simulation Research in Education, Multilevel Data Analysis in Education, Latent Variable Modeling in Education). I have also completed additional courses aligned with my research interest and aspirations from MIT (e.g., Fundamentals of Statistics, Machine Learning with Python—From Linear Model to Deep Learning, and Probability—The Science of Uncertainty and Data), John Hopkins University (e.g., Data Science Specialization (10-Course Series)— through Coursera), and LinkedIn Learning (e.g., Master SQL for Data Science (6-Course Series).

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His research focuses on achievement gap among K-12 students along the line of First and Second Language Literacy, Language Development, Teacher Education, and other socioeconomic variables. As a junior researcher, he has presented his research in many national, international forum and has published articles in aforementioned areas.