Sayantee Jana

Awards

Do Bui Family Travel Award (2023) to present at the Joint Statistical Meeting at Toronto, Canada
Shastri Travel Scholar (2023) to visit University of Ottawa
Fields Research Fellow (2022) funded by the Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences, Canada
Florence Nightingale Award of $1000 at the International Biometric Conference (IBC) 2020
IBS (International Biometric Society) Young Ambassador at the World Statistics Congress, 2019
Advanced Queen Elizabeth Scholar (QES-SAVE Award) 2019 to visit the University of Toronto
Prestigious F.R. Britton Scholarship of $5000 for the year 2014-15
International excellence award of $5000 each (for 2 consecutive years: 2013-2015)
Travel award of $500 from SSC (Statistical Society of Canada) for attending the SSC Annual meeting 2013

Dr. Ayon Mukherjee, IQVIA , Germany, Adjunct Professor, University of Cambridge : Project - Developing Covariate-Adjusted Response Adaptive designs for clinical trials (industry-academia collaboration) : https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-ayon-mukherjee-cstat-9b934866/

Dr. Patrick Brown, Dept. of Statistical Sciences, University of Toronto : Project - Spatio-temporal modelling with AGHQ (Adaptive Gaussian Hermite Quadrature) : https://www.statistics.utoronto.ca/people/directories/all-faculty/patrick-brown

Prof. Prabhat Jha, Centre for Global Health & Research; Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto : https://www.dlsph.utoronto.ca/faculty-profile/jha-prabhat/ https://research.unityhealth.to/researchers/prabhat-jha/

Prof. Jemila Hamid, Dept. of Mathematics, University of Ottawa - GMANOVA models (Bilinear Regression, Statistical Inference for Matrices :

Prof. Michael Escobar, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto - Data mining

Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Hyderabad - Assistant Professor (2021 to present)

Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Nagpur - Assistant Professor (2019-21)

Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Sambalpur - Visiting Faculty (2018)

UGC e-PG Pathshala & Swayam - Content writer (2014)

ACCESS Health International Inc. - Consultant (2011)

Indian Institute of Public Health (Public Health Foundation of India) Hyderabad - Faculty/Research Associate (2010-11)

Positions

Associate Editor of Statistica Neerlandica (ABDC Rank A, Q2 in SJR)
Planning Committee for International Day for Women in Statistics and Data Science 2023
Chair of Country Representative Committee, Member of Governing Council - Caucus for Women in Statistics (Jan 2022 - Dec 2023)
Country representative - Caucus for Women in Statistics (May 2019 - Dec 2021)
Editor of the 'Talk the Walk Series' (International Interview Series) - Caucus for Women in Statistics ( https://cwstat.org/publications/talk-the-walk/ )
Awards Committee and Social Program Committee for the International Biometric Conference 2022 - International Biometric Society (2021 - 22)
Executive Secretary, Panel Organizer and Master of Ceremony of the SSC Student Conference - Statistical Society of Canada (2013-15)
Program review committee, IIM Nagpur
Ad-hoc committee for plagiarism appeals to the Director, IIM Nagpur
Judged several competitions of the student-led Predixion Club, the analytics club of IIM Nagpur
Program Director: Data Science for Business Innovation and Excellence, IIM Nagpur
Cultural Activities Committee, IIT H
Department Placements Coordinator, IIT H
Industry Committee, IIT H

B.Sc. Statistics (Hons.), St. Xavier's College, Kolkata (2008)

M.Sc. Statistics, University of Calcutta (2010)

M.Sc. Statistics, McMaster University (2012)

PhD Mathematics (Statistics), McMaster University (2017)

Post doctoral Fellow, University of Toronto (2018)

Dissertation Advisory Committee (Doctoral Committee/M.Sc. Thesis Committee)

Co-curriculars

Was a TTIS (The Telegraph in Schools) Tiger Reporter
National Maths Talent and Science Talent exams
First runner-up in elocution competition organized by the Rotary Club of South Kolkata
Member of school choir
Sports judge in high school
Actively participated in many cultural events when in school and college.
Actively participated in organizing school fests, science and history exhibitions in school.
Represented school in elocution and extempore competitions
School Prefect for two years.
Participated in many intra and inter-school quiz contests.
Used to contribute regularly in the school magazine
5th rank in Painting competition organized by Amar Chitra Katha
Finalists in painting competitions organized by Boroline, Nehru Children's Museum, Lion's Club of Kolkata
One of the co-ordinators and volunteer teachers in a Slum Development Project organized by NSS, St. Xavier’s College, Kolkata
Participated in the 34th All India Blind Welfare Week, 2000.
Participated in a blood donation camp organized by NSS, St. Xavier’s College, Kolkata
Trained in Kathak (Lucknow Gharana) for 12 years

" Rock Bottom is the best place to be. The only way from there is the way up." - Prof. Debjani, IIEST Shibpur