I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of of Mathematics and Statistics at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur.
Presently, I am on lien from IIT Kanpur and working as an Assistant Professor at the Interdisciplinary Statistical Research Unit at Indian Statistical Institute Kolkata.
My research interests include high dimensional asymptotics, variable selection and prediction, density estimation, Bayesian modelling.
Office: Room no. 585 Faculty Building, IIT Kanpur
Telephone: 0512-259-2067
Email: minervam [AT] iitk.ac.in
I was a post-doctoral fellow in the Department of Statistical Sciences at Duke University, under the supervision of Prof. David B. Dunson (2017-2019).
Ph.D. from the Applied Statistics Unit at Indian Statistical Institute, under the supervision of Prof. Tapas Samanta (2010-2016) [Thesis].
Masters in Statistics from the Department of Statistics at Calcutta University (2009).