Prabrisha Rakshit

I am currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Operations Management, Quantitative Methods, and Information Systems at the Indian Institute of Management Udaipur. Prior to this role, I completed a two-year postdoctoral research fellowship in the Department of Bio-statistics, Epidemiology and Informatics at University of Pennsylvania 

I earned my Ph.D. in Statistics from Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, in 2023. My academic journey also includes a Master of Science (M.Sc.) in Statistics from the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (2018) and a Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) in Statistics from St. Xavier's College, Kolkata (2016).

Research Interest

I am broadly interested in high-dimensional inference, non-parametric regression and applications to health and genetics.

• Inference in high-dimensional regression.

• Non-parametric regression.

• Applications to genetics and health record data.

• Semi-parametric Inference

• Causal Inference

Education

• Ph.D. (in Statistics) in 2023 (under Prof. Zijian Guo ) from Department of Statistics at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, USA . 

• M.Sc. (in Statistics) in 2018 from Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur , India.

• B.Sc. (Hons in Statistics) in 2016 from Department of Statistics at St. Xavier's College, Kolkata, India. 

Awards and Honors

• Awarded the Institute of Mathematical Statistics Hannan Graduate Student Travel Award to attend Statistical Foundations of Data Science and their Applications, A Conference in Celebration of Jianqing Fan’s 60th Birthday, Princeton University, New Jersey, USA, May, 8-10, 2023. 

• Awarded the SRC Travel Scholarship for attending Spring Research Conference in Banff, Alberta Canada, May 24-26, 2024. 

• Awarded the Truman Koehler Jr. Scholarship for demonstrating outstanding potential for success in Ph.D. program of Statistics in Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey in the year 2018. 

• Awarded the General Proficiency Medal for the best academic performance among graduating students of the 2-year M.Sc. programme in Statistics in Indian Institute of Technology, India for the year 2018 

• Awarded the N. Balakrishnan Award in Statistics for the best final year student of M.Sc. in Statistics in Indian Institute of Technology, India for the year 2016-2017. 

• Awarded the Certificate of Merit for Academic Excellence in the Master of Science in Statistics in Indian Institute of Technology, India for the year 2016-2017. 

• Awarded the Certificate of Merit for Academic Excellence in the Master of Science in Statistics in Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India for the year 2016. 

• Ranked 23rd in JAM which is the All India Admission test for pursuing Post Graduation at Indian Institute of Technology, India. 

• Awarded Innovation in Science Pursuit for Inspired Research (INSPIRE) SHE Fellowship by Department of Science and Technology, Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of India, 2013 for being among the top 1 percent in 12th standard at West Bengal Council Of Higher Secondary Education and pursuing B.Sc. Statistics honors. 

• Selected for Central Sector Scheme of Scholarship 2013 by West Bengal Council Of Higher Secondary Education for securing 33rd position in the merit list in Higher Secondary Examination, 2013 with 96 percent marks (best of 4 subjects). 

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