First list of selected participants
Dr. Abhishek Mukherjee is an Associate Professor at the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata. He obtained his PhD degree from the University of Florida and gained postdoctoral experience at Texas A&M University. His research interests include ecological niche model, invasive weed ecology and biological control, and applications of nano-biotechnology for sustainable agriculture.
Dr. Amiya Ranjan Bhowmick is a faculty member in the Department of Mathematics at the Institute of Chemical Technology, Mumbai. His academic interests span interdisciplinary data science, statistical modeling, and applied mathematics. He actively integrates quantitative methods into ecological and environmental research. Dr. Bhowmick is deeply committed to training students in data-driven research and computational thinking. For more information, see https://sites.google.com/site/amiyaiitb/
Ruqaiya Shaikh is a Project Research Assistant at IIT Bombay and Visiting Faculty in Data Science and AI programs at the Institute of Science, Mumbai, and St. Xavier’s College, Mumbai. She holds a master’s in mathematics from the Institute of Chemical Technology, Mumbai. Her research interests include machine learning, statistical modelling, and applications of data science in various domains.
Dipali Vasudev Mestry is a Ph.D. student (DST-Inspire Senior Research Fellow) in the Department of Mathematics at the Institute of Chemical Technology, Mumbai. Her research focuses on Bayesian and computational modelling for ecological and environmental applications. She has expertise in Monte Carlo methods, MCMC, Approximate Bayesian Computation, and dynamic documentation of analyses using Quarto.