Academics

My CV (link)

Education

PhD in Statistics (2008 - 2014) :

Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata. Thesis Advisor: Prof. Anup Dewanji.

Find My Thesis Here: Analysis of Spontaneous Adverse Drug Reaction (ADR) Reports in Presence of Reporting Bias

M.Sc in Statistics (2004 - 2006) :

Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur

B.Sc in Statistics (2001 - 2004) :

Ramakrishna Mission Residential Collage, Narendrapur,

University of Calcutta, Kolkata

Research Interest

• Q-learning (Reinforcement Learning), Dynamic Treatment Regime (DTR) and Personalized Medicine

• Clinical Trials

• Phase IV Clinical Trial ( Pharmacovigilance)

• Case-Control Study

• Biased Sampled Data

• Surveillance 

• Public Health

• Privacy in Health Data Sharing

Fellowships Awarded

• Junior and Senior Research Fellowships from Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata

• Junior Research Fellowship from CSIR, India (did not avail)

Award

The Academisthan Teacher of the year Awards for 2021 in the North-East category (Young Teacher: second position)

Programming Languages

• R, SAS

Teaching Experience

• At IIT Guwahati:

  • • Statistical Inference and Multivariate Analysis (MA324): 2023

    • Probability Theory and Random Processes (MA225): 2022

    • Statistical Foundations for Data Science (MA589): 2019, 2020

    • Generalized Linear Models (MA687): 2019

    • R Programming Lab (MA588; Shared with Dr. V. Saradhi): 2020, 2021, 2022

    • Monte Carlo Simulation (MA323; Shared with Prof. S.P. Chakraborty) : 2020

• At Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore [for PhD program Integrated Biostatistics and Bioinformatics]

  • • Core Concepts in Biostatistics in the: 2017-18 and 2018-19 

    • Design and Analysis of Modern Clinical Studies: 2017-18 

• Tutorial Class on Simple and Multiple Regression for 3rd year medical students (MSIII), 8 April 2016

• Statistical mentor of 3rd year medical students (MSIII), Duke-NUS Medical School}: 2015 (10 students), 2016 (8 students), 2017 (10 students)

• Workshop on Introduction to R at Singapore General Hospital, conducted by AMRI, Duke-NUS Medical School, 11 June 2015  

• Workshop on Regression and Classification using R at Singapore General Hospital, conducted by AMRI, Duke-NUS Medical School, 2 July 2014  

• Practical Sessions at Workshop on Statistical Aspects of Risk Modeling (with special focus on AMA Modeling) for Reserve Bank of India, Conducted by Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, 10-14 December, 2012

• Data processing at International Statistical Education Centre (ISEC), Kolkata, India, 2nd Semester, 2010-11, 2011-12

Reviewer For

• Annals of Applied Statistics

• Biometrics

• Statistics in Medicine

• Statistical Methods in Medical Research (SMMR)

• Journal of Nonparametric Statistics

• TEST

• Sankhya B

• Clinical Trials

• Calcutta Statistical Association (CSA) Bulletin

• Epidemiologic Methods

• Current Science

• BMJ Open

• Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety

Visited

• R. Samuel MaLaughlin Centre for Population Health Risk Assessment, University of Ottawa, Canada, May21 - June 30, 2011

Seminar Given

• Golden Jubilee Celebration, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, IIT Kanpur, 29th October, 2010

• 2nd International Conference on Advanced Data Analysis, Business Analytics and Intelligence, IIM Ahmadabad,  8-9 January, 2011

• National Conference On Application of Statistics in Industry and Planning, Department of Statistics, Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan, Bolpur, 25-27 February, 2012

• Eighth International Triennial Calcutta Symposium on Probability and Statistics, Department of Statistics, University of Calcutta, 27-30 December, 2012 

• Research Scholars' Meet on Reliability Theory, Survival Analysis and Related Topics, ISI, Kolkata, 26-28 February, 2013

• Applied Statistics Unit, ISI Kolkata, 25 July, 2014

• 28 International Biometric Conference, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, 10-15 July, 2016

As Invited Speaker:

• At Workshop on Data Analysis and Statistics with R, conducted by School of Mobile Computing, Jadavpur University, in Collaboration with Kolkata Chapter of Indian GNU/Linux Users Group (www.ilug-cal.info) and Free Software Mancha, West Bengal  9-10 December, 2011. Title: Common Tests: In R

• At ISI-ISM-ISSAS Joint Conference 2013, January 31 - February 1, Institute of Statistical Science, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan. Title: Regression Analysis of Biased Case-control Data with Application to Spontaneous Adverse Drug Reaction Reports.

• International Statistical Institute (ISI) Regional Statistics Conference 2014, 16-20 November, Department of Statistics, Malaysia and the Malaysia Institute of Statistics

• 60th International Statistical Institute (ISI) World Statistics Congress (WSC) 2015, 26--31 July, Riocentro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

• International Biometric Society, Singapore Chapter, the Department of Statistics and Applied Probability, National University of Singapore, October 16, 2015

• 9th Conference of the Asian Regional Section of the IASC (IASC-ARS 2015), the Department of Statistics and Applied Probability, National University of Singapore from December 17-19, 2015

• International Statistical Institute (ISI) Regional Statistics Conference, Bali, Indonesia, March 20-24, 2017

• Statistical Methods for Developing Personalized Mobile Health Interventions, Institute for Mathematical Sciences, National University of Singapore, 4 February - 1 March, 2019

Workshop Attended

• Reliability Theory & Survival Analysis, at Department of Mathematics and Statistics, IIT, Kanpur, December 3-5, 2012

• Reliability Theory & Survival Analysis, at Department of Mathematics, IIT, Bombay, Nov 25-27, 2010

• Reliability Theory & Survival Analysis, at Applied Statistics Unit, ISI, Kolkata, Nov 23-25, 2011

• Pharmacovigilance: Risk Management Strategy and Risk Minimisation, organized by CoRE at Duke-NUS, Singapore, 21 May, 2015

• Innovative Design in Early Phase Clinical Trials, Organized by Quantitative Medicine Forum at Duke-NUS, Singapore, 29 March, 2017