Hello, I'm Dr. Sayantee, Assistant Professor at IIT Hyderabad.
Full-time academic - Professor and Researcher
Avid traveler, hiker, fitness enthusiast, Kathak dancer, orator
I am a Statistics Professor with a diverse experience of teaching doctors, engineers, lawyers, government officers, corporate executives, MBA and undergraduate students across 3 different countries. I work on a few different fields of statistics and Machine learning and collaborate with industry and academia abroad, on research and consultancy projects. My research areas include but is not limited to Machine Learning Models and Data mining for big data from finance and healthcare industry, spatio-temporal modelling and maps, modelling of skewed and volatile data for financial data, and adaptive designs (skewed randomization) for clinical trials in the pharmaceutical industry. I did my PhD in Mathematical Statistics from McMaster University in 2017 and was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Toronto till 2018 working on data mining for big data. I have supervised more than 15 UG & PG students in both academic and industry projects. I have also supervised around 10 engineers from industry in AI/ML projects.
I received the prestigious Queen Elizabeth Scholarship and Fields Research Fellowship to visit the University of Toronto. I was also the IBS Young Ambassador to the World Statistics Congress in 2019 and the Florence Nightingale Award Winner in 2020. I have served on the Social Program Committee and Awards Committee for the International Biometrics Conference 2022. I serve as the Chair of the Country-Representatives Committee for the Caucus for Women in Statistics and its Governing Council member. I have been on panels and organizing committees of international conferences and is an Associate Editor of Statistica Neerlandica, a peer-reviewed journal by the Netherlands Society for Statistics and Operations Research. I am open to research and industry consultancies and collaborations. Students/ academicians/ corporate professionals: please feel free to drop me an email at sayantee.jana@math.iith.ac.in
Research Interests
Data mining for big data, Data mining for skewed data
Spatio-temporal modelling (Adaptive Gaussian Hermite Quadrature) - with Dr. Patrick Brown, University of Toronto
Bayesian Analysis
Multivariate, skewed and volatile distributions
Methods for Bilinear Regression (GMANOVA) - with Prof. Jemila Hamid, Dept. of Mathematics, University of Ottawa
Extensions of EM algorithm and Newton-Raphson Method
Statistical Inference for Matrix Parameters - with Prof. Jemila Hamid, Dept. of Mathematics, University of Ottawa
Adaptive designs for clinical trials - with Dr. Ayon Mukherjee, IQVIA, Germany, Adjunct Faculty, University of Cambridge
Google scholar link: https://scholar.google.ca/citations?user=NLp2GgMAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sayantee-jana/
ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Sayantee-Jana
Funded Projects:
Spatio-temporal modelling for non-gaussian data using AGHQ (funded by Fields institute Canada)
GMANOVA modelling for skewed and volatile data to model financial data during catastrophes (Indo-Canadian)
Fraud modelling for UPI transactions data (National Payments Corporation of India)
Spatio-temporal modelling of malaria mortality in India (Advanced Queen Elizabeth Scholarship for Statistical Alliance for Vital Events)
Featured on the bulletin board of Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences, Canada
Award ceremony at the IBC (International Biometrics Society) 2020 (virtual)
Invited talk on 'Female Statisticians in History' at 'Around the World Conference' 2021
All Panelists at IISA conference at the J.N. Tata Auditorium, IISc 2022
Advanced Data Analysis with R, at IIM Nagpur
The Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences
Opportunities:
Contact me for:
M.Sc. or M.Tech Projects (only for IITH students)
PhD positions @ IIT H
Summer internships @ industry (only for IITH students)
Funded Postdoc positions @ IIT H
Postdoc positions @ IIT H (If you have done your PhD in applied mathematics or statistics and have NPDF or any other external scholarship, and wish to work on a mathematical statistics project, you may please contact me)
Get in touch at sayantee.jana@math.iith.ac.in
"Life is full of uncertainties. Regardless of how much you plan, you never know how your world will turn upside down the next moment. Joy, sorrow, serendipity - nothing is forever. "