Activities

Administrative responsibilities

• Department TEQIP- Coordinator, Department of Mathematics, ICT Mumbai (March 2019 – Till Date).

• In-charge of Students Training, Placement and Alumni Affairs, Department of Mathematics, ICT Mumbai.

• Member of the Academic Integrity Committee of the Department of Mathematics.

Other professional Involvements

• Member of the Board of Studies for Mathematics, K. C. College, HNSC Cluster University, Mumbai.

• Member of the Board of Studies (Statistics) of S K Somaiya College (A Constituent Academic Unit of Somaiya Vidyavihar University).

• Member of the Board of Studies in Mathematics, Guru Nanak Khalsa College, Mumbai.

• Member of the Board of Studies of B.Sc. in Actuarial Science (Statistics), Thakur College of Science and Commerce, Kandivali East, Mumbai.

• Member of the Board of Studies in M.Sc. Data Science in Dr. Homi Bhabha State University.

• Member of the Board of Studies in B.Sc. Applied Mathematical Computing in the School of Mathematics, Applied Statistics & Analytics, NMIMS, Mumbai.

Academic Visit

• School of Arts and Sciences, Ahmedabad University on 1st August 2022 (Host: Dr. Kaushik Jana) (Delivered talk entitled “Understanding Data Science: Pedagogical approach using R”)

• Agricultural and Ecological Research Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata during 16th – 20th September 2019 (Host: Prof. Sabyasachi Bhattacharya, ISI Kolkata).

• Chemical Engineering & Process Development Division, CSIR-National Chemical Laboratory (NCL, Pune) on 25th July 2019) for research collaboration under TEQIP-III (Host: Dr. Ramrup Sarkar, NCL).

• BIT Mesra, Ranchi during 15th and 16th April 2019 under the Twinning activities under TEQIP-III. Served as a part of delegations from ICT Faculty and Industry experts.

• Agricultural and Ecological Research Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata during (11th July-13th July, 2018). The visit was under TEQIP-III Faculty Development Program.

• Department of Mathematics, BITS Pilani, K. K. Birla Goa campus during March 22-25, 2017. Delivered lecture on "Evolution of Relative Growth Rate: Theoretical Analysis and Application to Real Data". (Host: Dr. Akshay Rane)

• Department of ecology & conservation biology, PTCF, Periyar Tiger Reserve, Kerala during the period of 6th and 7th March 2017.

• Agricultural and Ecological Research Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata during (26th May - 4th June 2016) (Host: Professor Sabyasachi Bhattacharya). (Under TEQIP-II FDP, Institute of Chemical Technology, Mumbai).

Invited Talks (Resource Person)

• Foundation of Data Science Using R: A hands on training in R programming language (sponsored by RUSA) Guru Nanak Khalsa College of Arts, Science and Commerce (Autonomus), Mumbai from 18th to 23rd July 2022 (designed the syllabus) 

• SRUJAN 22 on 26th February 2022 organized by Department of Mathematics, Kirti College, Dadar, Mumbai (Title: Some Statistical Solutions to Mathematical Problems)

• International Lecture Series on Ecological Data Science: Concepts, Mathematical Modelling and Inference on 9th February 2022 organized by K. C. College, Mumbai. (Title: Mathematical Modelling in Natural Sciences: Some Statistical Aspects)

• Workshop on Revised Syllabi of SYBA/BSc Semester IV, Paper III from 20th to 21st October 2021 organized by the Department of Mathematics, NES Ratnam College of Arts, Science and Commerce, and BOS in Mathematics, University of Mumbai.

• Short Term Course on Data Science Certification – Level 1 organized by the Department of Computer Science and Information Technology, SIWS College, Wadala organized from 9th to 16th September 2021 (Session: Data Science and R Programming) 

• AICTE Sponsored STTP on Risk & Reliability-Based Asset Management organized by the Department of Mathematics, JIS College of Engineering (10th June 2021, Session: An introduction to Monte Carlo methods and Bootstrap resampling for estimating characteristics of population distribution using R).

• National Workshop on “Statistical Data Analysis Using R-studio and R Programming” from 30th  October to 1st  November 2020 organized by Department of Mathematical Sciences, P. D. Patel Institute of Applied Sciences (PDPIAS), Charotar University of Science and Technology (CHARUSAT). Talk title: “Statistical Simulation Using R Programming”.

• Two Days Workshop on “Research and Analytics” Research/ Ph.D. aspirants from Industry, corporates, and Academics organized by SEARch( Statistics Education Analytics and Research) during 11th and 12th January 2020. Delivered a talk entitled: “Use of Softwares in Scientific Research”.

• Refresher Course in Financial Mathematics organized by the Department of Mathematics, Mumbai University under RUSA during 16th - 18th December 2019. Title: Probability and Simulation using R.

• Five Days Short Term Course on Data Analysis using R software in GVM’ GGPR College of Commerce and Economics, Ponda, Goa during 12th -17th December 2019.

• Workshop on Statistical Methods in Behavioural Sciences Using R Software jointly organized by The Agricultural and Ecological Research Unit, Biological Sciences Division, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata and Department of Human Development & Family Studies, College of Community Science, Assam Agricultural University,  Jorhat, Assam during 19th to 21st September 2019.

• Workshop on Statistical Methods in Biological Data Analysis Using R Programming organized by the Department of BioEngineering, BIT Mesra on 15th April 2019. This workshop was organized under the Twinning Activities under TEQIP-III (sole instructor).

• "Data Analysis and Statistical Techniques using R" for College teachers in Goa, a state-level workshop organized by the Department of Mathematics, Dhempe College, Goa during 15th - 16th March 2019. The workshop was sponsored by the Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of Goa (sole instructor).

• "Workshop on Biological Growth Curve Models in Population Dynamics Using R for Biologists" organized by the Agricultural and Ecological Research Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India during 12-13th February 2019. (Pre-conference workshop of IBM 2019, ISI Kolkata).

• STTP on Linear Algebra, Statistics and Mathematical Modeling: Hands-on organized by the K. J. Somaiya College of Engineering, Vidyavihar during 8th – 12th Jan 2019. (Delivered three sessions on Multiple Linear Regression and ANOVA on 8th and 9th Jan 2019).

• Workshop on Species Distribution Modelling using MaxEnt and R (Chapter -II) during December 3-9, 2018 organized by the Agricultural and Ecological Research Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata. (Contents uploaded: https://sites.google.com/site/amiyaiitb/research/ecological-niche-modelling).

• Workshop on "MATLAB and R Training" during 10th-11th July 2018 organized by CPEPA, University of Calcutta.

• Workshop on “Analysis of Biological Data using RStudio” organized by the MGM’s College of Engineering and Technology (MGMCET) on 8th and 15th April 2018 (sole instructor).

• Workshop and Statistical Methods and R Programming for Biologists during 07th – 13th March 2018 organized by the Agricultural and Ecological Researhc Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata (also designed the syllabus).

• Workshop on Modern Ecological and Agricultural Practices with Statistical Methodologies and R Software-2018 for Biologists at the Rajib Gandhi University, Arunachal Pradesh during the North East (26th -27th February 2018).

• Short Term Training Programme on “Applicable Mathematics and Statistical Techniques” organized by the Basic Sciences and Humanities Department, Don Bosco Institute of Technology, Mumbai from 2nd – 6th January 2018.

• Workshop on “Modern Ecological and Agricultural Practices with Statistical Methodologies and R software" held in North-Eastern Hill University, Tura Campus, Meghalaya, India during 30th-31th March 2017.

• Workshop on "Species Distribution Modelling with MaxEnt" during 9th - 14th January 2017 organized by the Agricultural and Ecological Research Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata (www.sdmworkshopisi.wixsite.com/sdmworkshop).

• Refresher Course organized by the Department of Statistics, the University of Mumbai on 10th November 2016 (Title: Statistical treatment of nonlinear regression models).

• "Workshop on R with Applications to Quantitative Finance " organized by the Department of Mathematics, BIT Pilani, Goa (26th-28th August 2016).

• 3rd National Workshop on Statistical Methods and R Programming (10-15th February 2016), jointly organized by the Agricultural and Ecological Research Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, and Department of Mathematics, Institute of Chemical Technology, Mumbai. (Speaker and local coordinator, https://sites.google.com/site/rworkshopisi/)

• Workshop on Statistical Modeling and Data Analysis: Its Engineering Applications, TEQIP-II sponsored a one-week faculty development program (11-15th January 2016) organized by Government College of Engineering and Textile Technology, Berhampore, West Bengal.

• UGC Refresher Course for college teachers, University of Mumbai (5th December 2015) (Topic: R Programming).

• National Workshop on Statistical Methods and R Programming (25th -29th May 2015) organized by Agricultural and Ecological Research Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata (https://sites.google.com/site/amiyaiitb/workshop).

• Workshop on R-Programming for students and Researchers (16th-17th September 2014) organized by Agricultural and Ecological Research Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata.

• Data Analysis and Statistics with R, 2012 organized by School of Mobile Computing, Jadavpur University in collaboration with Indian GNU/Linux Users Groups.

Invited Talks (Conference)

• International Indian Statistical Association (IISA) Conference 2022 organized in IISc Bengaluru during 26th -30th December 2022. Title of the talk: Managing the Biological Invasion by Invasive Alien Plant Species in India: Insights from the ILORA Database using Data Science Applications

• International Lecture Series on Ecological Data Science: Concepts, Mathematical Modelling and Inference on 9th February 2021 organized by K. C. College, Mumbai. (Title: Mathematical Modelling in Natural Sciences: Some Statistical Aspects) 

• Recent Advances in Applied Mathematics: Theory and Computation organized by Department of Applied Mathematics, the University of Calcutta during 27th – 29th March 2021. Title of the talk: Identification of Factors Influencing Naturalization and Invasion Success of Invasive Plants – A Data-Driven Study in India.

• International Conference “7th India Biodiversity Meet 2019” organized by the Agricultural and Ecological Research Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata during 19th -21st November 2019. Title of the talk: Statistical Inference on Biological Growth Models with Continuously Varying Parameters Using Interval Specific Estimator.

• International Conference, 6th India Biodiversity Meet-2019 organized by the Agricultural and Ecological Research Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata during 14-16th February 2019. Title of the Talk: Estimation of Parameters in Population Dynamic Models Using Grid Approximation: A Bayesian Approach.

• International Conference on New paradigms in Statistics for Scientific and Industrial Research Jointly Organized by Indian Association of Productivity, Quality & Reliability, and CSIR – Central Glass & Ceramic Research Institute (4th – 6th January 2018) (Title: Evolution of Model Specific Growth Rate: Theoretical Analysis and Application to Real Data)

• National Conference “4th India Biodiversity Meet 2015” (24 -27th October 2016) organized by the Agricultural and Ecological Research Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata jointly with Government College of Engineering and Textile Technology.

• The 2015 NNMCB National Meeting, (27-30th December 2015) National Network for Mathematical and Computational Biology, Pune Node jointly organized by NCL Pune and IISER Pune.

• International Conference “3rd India Biodiversity Meet 2015” (16 -18th November 2015) organized by the Agricultural and Ecological Research Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata jointly with Biomathematical Society of India.

• International Conference “India Biodiversity Meet 2014” (21st -23rd November) organized by Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata jointly with Biomathematical Society of India. (Title: An Extended Family of Density Dependent Growth Curve Models and Related Ecological Issue, https://sites.google.com/site/indiabiodiversitymeet2014/home).

Invited Talks (Individual Invitation)

• Delivered a talk in the Department of Mathematics, Kishinchand Chellaram College entitled “Applications of Mathematics and Statistics to Understand Species' Distribution” on 5th February 2021.

• Delivered a talk in the Department of Mathematics, Kishinchand Chellaram College entitled “Use of Resampling in Population Estimation and Predicting the Risk of Extinction in Natural Populations: Two Case Studies” on 23rd April 2020 (Mode: Google Hangout, during Lockdown period due to COVID-19).

• Delivered a talk in the Vidyalankar Institute of Technology, Wadala on “Least Squares Method and its Use in Real Life Problems” for Information Technology Students on 31st Jan 2020.

• Delivered an introductory lecture on "Probability Distribution and Engineering Applications" for the students of Instrumentation Engineering at RAIT - Ramrao Adik Institute of Technology, Navi Mumbai on 8th February 2019.

• Delivered the keynote address in the 'Dr. Ganesh Prasad Math Fest 2018' organized on Tuesday, 23rd Jan 2018 as part of “Indian Mathematician Chair” instituted in the Dept of Maths & Stats, Guru Nanak Khalsa College of Arts, Science and Commerce. Topic: “Applications of Mathematics”.

Organizational activities (Coordinator)

• Coordinator of the Workshop on Statistical Foundations of Data Science and Machine Learning (27th - 31st October 2021) under ATAL Academy.

• Workshop “Decoding Cyber Security Crimes” which was held in ICT Mumbai under the TEQIP-III twinning activities with BIT Mesra and GCE Keonjhar, in collaboration with Cyber Security Corporation, Pune during 19th – 21st August 2019.

• Workshop of Deep Learning Using Python organized by the Department of Mathematics, Institute of Chemical Technology, Mumbai during 17th -19th December 2018. This program was supported by TEQIP-III.

• Workshop on Machine Learning Using R (Sept 30 – Oct 1, 2016) organized by the Department of Mathematics, Institute of Chemical Technology, Mumbai. The workshop is financially supported by TEQIP-II.

• National Seminar on Computational and Mathematical Biology (10th – 11th September 2016) organized by the Department of Mathematics, Institute of Chemical Technology, Mumbai. The seminar series is financially supported by TEQIP-II (speaker).

• Industry-Academic Interaction Program (14th May 2016) in the department of mathematics, ICT Mumbai (Funded by TEQIP-II).

• SPSS Training program for M.Sc. and Ph.D. students (11th – 12th May 2016) organized by the department of mathematics, ICT Mumbai jointly with Veracitiz Pvt. Ltd (Funded by TEQIP-II).

Workshop and Conference attended

• SMB 2020 Annual Meeting, August 17 - 20, 2020.

• Student Induction Program on Universal Human values under AICTE at Mata Vaishno Devi University, Katra, Jammu during March 5-7, 2020.

• Workshop on Science of Data Science organized in The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Trieste, Italy from 30th September to 4th October 2019.

• International Conference on Applied and Computational Mathematics (ICACM – 18) (Nov 23-25, 2018) organized by the Department of Mathematics, IIT Kharagpur. Delivered talk in a contributory session entitled “Estimation of Parameters in Population Dynamic Models Using Gibbs Sampling Approach: An application to theta-logistic model”.

• One Week Certificate Programme on Advanced Data Analysis in Management (ADAM) (14-18th December 2015) Department of Management Studies, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi.

• 15th International Symposium on Mathematical and Computational Biology (2-6th November 2015), Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee. (Poster presented)

• DST-SERB Summer School on Matrix Methods and Fractional Calculus, Centre for mathematical and statistical sciences. 28th April-23rd May 2014 (Best student award for highest marks).

• 3rd International Symposium on Complex Dynamical. Systems and Applications (CDSA -2014). March 10 – 12, 2014 organized by Agricultural and Ecological Research Unit & Physics and Applied Mathematics Unit Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata.

• National Conference on Mathematical and Theoretical Biology (NCMTB 2014) (20-21st February 2014) organized by Centre for Mathematical Biology and Ecology, Department of Mathematics, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, and Bio mathematical Society of India. (Paper presented).

• Bayes by the Bay – A Pedagogical workshop on Bayesian Methods in Science (4th -8th January 2013) organized by The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai.

• International Conference of Dynamical System: Theory and Application (11th -14th January 2012) organized by the department of mathematics, Jadavpur University, and Biomathematical society of India.

• Probability and Discrete Mathematics in Mathematical Biology (14th March–10th May 2011). Institute for Mathematical Sciences, National University of Singapore. Workshop Attended: Discrete Mathematics and Probability in Population Biology and Genetics 21st March-1st April 2011 Discrete Mathematics and Probability in Networks and Population Biology 2nd May-13th May. Delivered talk on “Chaos in Ecological Systems”.

• National Workshop on Nonlinear Dynamical Systems (4th-8th July 2011). Department of Mathematics, National Institute of Technology, Durgapur.

• Workshop & Symposium on Mathematical Ecology (7th -14th December 2010) organized by Indian Institute of Science Mathematics Initiative, IISER Kolkata & DST Centre for Mathematical Biology

• National Conference on Theoretical Biology and Biomathematics” (15th –16th December 2010) organized by “Biomathematical Society of India” & “Centre for Mathematical Biology & Ecology, Department of Mathematics, Jadavpur University”