I am currently an Assistant Professor of Statistics in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IIT Kanpur), Kanpur, India. I am the PI for the Spatial Statistics Research Group at IIT Kanpur.
My research interests include
Spatial statistics
Extreme value analysis
Heavy-tailed processes
High-dimensional data analysis
Hierarchical Bayesian modeling
Environmental Statistics
Applications of Bayesian nonparametrics
Goodness-of-fit tests
Robust statistical inference
Ecological Statistics (Coral Reefs)
Brain imaging
I obtained my Ph.D. in Statistics in 2018 from the Department of Statistics, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, United States, under the supervision of Brian J. Reich and Ana-Maria Staicu. Before that, I completed my Bachelor of Statistics (B.Stat.) and Master of Statistics (M.Stat.) from the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, in 2012 and 2014, respectively. After my Ph.D., I was a postdoctoral fellow of Statistics at the Computer, Electrical, and Mathematical Science and Engineering (CEMSE) Division, at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, Saudi Arabia. Besides, I have completed the Harvard BOK Higher Education Teaching Certificate course.
I currently serve as a member of the Editorial Board of the journals Journal of Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental Statistics, Journal of Applied Statistics: Environmental Statistics and Data Science, and Sankhya B- The Indian Journal of Statistics .
I have served as a reviewer for the journals- Journal of Business & Economic Statistics (JBES), Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics (JCGS), The Annals of Applied Statistics (AoAS), Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A (JRSS-A), Statistics and Computing, Extremes, Scandinavian Journal of Statistics, Computational Statistics and Data Analysis (CSDA), Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series C (JRSS-C), Spatial Statistics, Journal of Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental Statistics (JABES), Environmetrics, Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment (SERRA), Canadian Journal of Statistics, Spatial and Spatio-temporal Epidemiology, Biometrical Journal, Statistical Methods in Medical Research, Statistical Analysis and Data Mining, Stat, Financial Innovations, Natural Hazards, International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, Journal of Statistical Theory and Practice, Communications in Statistics-Theory and Methods, Communications in Statistics-Simulation and Computation, Sankhya series B, Sankhya series A, Journal of Sustainable Forestry, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, India: Physical Sciences, Calcutta Statistical Association Bulletin, Journal of the Indian Statistical Association, Journal of Indian Society of Agricultural Statistics.
The link to my CV is here.
The link to my Google Scholar profile is here.
My ORCID ID is https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3647-2697.
News:
November 7, 2025: Our paper "A semiparametric generalized exponential regression model with a principled distance-based prior", with Arijit Dey (currently a PhD student at Duke University, US), got accepted in Statistical Papers.
October 9, 2025: Our conference proceeding, "High-dimensional Bayesian Skew-Gaussian Spatial Model for Analyzing Rainfall Trends", was published online in MATRIX Annals 2024, available at https://www.matrix-inst.org.au/2024-matrix-annals/.
August 11, 2025: "Temporal Evolution of Soil Hydraulic Properties in a Cropping Season: Drivers and Hydrological Impacts" with Saurabh Kumar, Ajit Kumar Srivastava, and Richa Ojha (Civil Engineering, IIT Kanpur), was published online in Hydrological Processes.
July 16, 2025: I delivered my first plenary talk on "Statistical Modeling and Learning of Spatial Extremes in High Dimensions" at the conference "Spatial Statistics 2025: At the Dawn of AI", to be held at Hotel NH Noordwijk Conference Centre Leeuwenhorst, Netherlands.
July 12, 2025: Our book chapter "A Review of Applications of Extreme Value Theory to Environmental Risk Assessment", with Luis Gimeno-Sotelo (Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal), Jordan Richards (University of Edinburgh, UK), Linda Mhalla (EPFL, Switzerland), and Patricia de Zea Bermudez (Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal), got accepted for the upcoming book Environmental Statistics: Innovative Methods and Applications, CRC Press.
April 9, 2025: I joined the Editorial Board of the Journal of Applied Statistics: Environmental Statistics and Data Science!
January 1, 2025: I joined the Editorial Board of Sankhya B!
January 8, 2024: I joined the Editorial Board of Journal of Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental Statistics (JABES)!