Honor & Awards

2024         Outstanding Chapter Service Award (Virginia Chapter), American Statistical Association  (ASA)

2024         Elected Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

                  Citation: “For distinguished contributions to the field of health data science, particularly oral epidemiology and 

                  cancer, for unflinching commitment to graduate education, and for exemplary service to the profession.”

2024         Lowell Reed Lecturer, Applied Public Health Statistics Section, American Public Health Association

2021         Dayanand Naik Award, Virginia Chapter of the ASA

2021         Outstanding Statistical Applications Award, ASA

                  Paper: *Guan Q, Reich BJ, Laber E and Bandyopadhyay D. (2020). Bayesian nonparametric policy search with 

                  applications to periodontal recall intervals, Journal of the American Statistical Association - Applications and 

                  Case Studies, 105(531), 1066-1078 

2020        Gertrude M. Cox Award, presented by the Washington Statistical Society (WSS) & RTI International

2020        Elected Member, International Statistical Institute

2018        Elected Fellow, American Statistical Association 

                 Citation: “For innovative statistical applications to high impact problems in oral epidemiology and public health; for

                 excellent research contributions to survival analysis, correlated data, spatial epidemiology, and robust regression; for

        extensive biomedical collaborations; and for exemplary service to the profession”.

2015        Outstanding Young Statistical Scientist Award (YSSA), Applications Category, from the International Indian 

                 Statistical Association [IISA]

2015        Best Associate Editor Award for Journal of Agricultural, Biological and Environmental Statistics (JABES). 

                 Citation:  “In recognition for promptness, careful reviews, outstanding dedication, initiative and tireless 

                 commitment to  the journal”

2011        CDC/ATSDR Statistical Science Award for Best Theoretical Paper:

                 Datta S, Bandyopadhyay D, Satten G. (2010). Inverse probability of censoring weighted U-statistics for 

                 right-censored data with applications to testing of hypothesis, Scandinavian Journal of Statistics, 37(4): 680-700.

2010      Best Poster award [Pediatric Category], ASCRS/ASOA Meeting, Boston, MA 

2010      Best Paper award [Pediatric Category], ASCRS/ASOA Meeting, Boston, MA  

2008      CRC Book Prize, Bayesian Biostatistics Conference, M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, TX

2006        Team Champion (Univ. of Georgia), ASA Stat Bowl Team Champioship, Joint Statistical Meetings, Minneapolis, MN

2005        Runner up, ASA Stat Bowl Individual Champioship, Joint Statistical Meetings, Minneapolis, MN 

2005     R L Anderson Student Paper Award, SRCOS Annual Meeting, Clemson, SC

2005        Honorable mention, Student Paper Award, International Conference on Statistics, Applied Mathematics & Combinatorics, Auburn, 

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2005        University of Georgia Graduate School Dissertation Completion Fellowship

1997      1st position, Annual statistics seminar contest, RKM Residential College, Univ. of Calcutta, West Bengal, India

1987-94   Govt. of India Merit Scholarship in approved residential secondary schools.

                  Entire educational expenses, including tuition, and living expenses, from 6th till 12th grade, sponsored by the Govt. of 

                  India