Pijush Panday

Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, F.S.T. ICFAI Foundation for Higher Education, Hyderabad

Awards: Poster presentation award at DSABNS 2020 CONFERENCE, University of Trento, Italy

Research Interest: mathematical modelling of ecological and epidemiological systems. 

Pijush joined ILMEE as a postdoctoral researcher under the supervision of Prof. Hao Wang since April 2022. He is working on modelling early warning signals for emerging infectious diseases via machine learning and statistical approaches. He is also interested in nonlinear dynamics, social ecological modeling.

Pijush completed his Ph.D. at the Agricultural and Ecological Research Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata and was awarded his Ph.D. degree in Applied Mathematics from University of Calcutta, Kolkata in 2021. In his doctoral research, he has developed mathematical models incorporating fear effect in predator-prey interaction and investigated how behavioral aspects such as changes in prey behavior under predation risk strongly affect the dynamics, stability and persistence of populations of the system. He served a brief stint as a Postdoctoral fellow at Indian Institute of Technology, Madras and as a Visiting Scientist at Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata. Pijush completed his Bachelor’s degree and Master’s degree in Mathematics from Jadavpur University, Kolkata.