Rahul Ghosal, Ph.D.

I am an Assistant Professor at Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of South Carolina. I am from Kolkata, India and my journey in Statistics began at Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata from where I obtained my B.Stat and M.Stat. I received my PhD in Statistics from NC State University, Department of Statistics under the supervision of Dr. Arnab Maity. I was a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Biostatistics at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, under the supervision of Dr. Vadim Zipunnikov.

Research Interests

My methodological research focuses on developing Functional data analysis methods with applications in biosciences and Distributional data analysis methods for modeling wearable data with applications in gait, aging and Alzheimer's disease. I am also engaged in collaborative research to identify clinically relevant characteristic patterns of physical activity and sleep, and associate them with cognitive, behavioral, and neuropsychiatric endpoints.

My other research interests include:

• Variable Selection

• Nonparametric Inference

• Shape Restricted Regression

• Bayesian Inference

• Survival Analysis.

• Environmental Modeling.

See publications for a detailed list of my research projects.