Education

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Quality Reliability and Operations Research (QROR) 2016

Indian Statistical Institute Kolkata, India https://www.isical.ac.in/

Thesis title: “On some design issues in censored life testing experiments”

Thesis advisors: Prof. Biswabrata Pradhan and Prof. Anup Dewanji

Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India https://www.iitkgp.ac.in/

University of Calcutta, India https://www.caluniv.ac.in/

Professional history

Assistant Professor, University of Texas at El Paso, USA (September 2022 - Till date)
Research Professor, Tecnológico de Monterrey, Querétaro Campus, México (February 2019 - July 2022)
Postdoctoral Fellow, Centro de Investigación en Matemáticas (CIMAT), Monterrey, México (August 2016 - January 2019)
Senior Research Fellow, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India (September 2011 - May 2016)
Junior Research Fellow, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India (September 2009 - September 2011)

Certified for completion of the microcredential in “Inclusive Teaching For Equitable Learning” by Association of College and University Educators (ACUE), USA (October, 2022 - January, 2023).
Qualified for ”Sistema Nacional de Investigadores (SNI)” by Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnologı́a (CONACYT), México: SNI level I (January, 2021 - December, 2023).
Qualified for “Sistema Nacional de Investigadores (SNI)” by Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnologıa, Mexico: SNI level “CANDIDATO” (January, 2018 - December, 2020).
Recipient of fellowship ”Programa para un Avance Global e Integrado de la Matematica Mexicana” (February 2017 - December 2019)
Qualified Indian Statistical Institute JRF Entrance Test (2009) and awarded
Qualified National Eligibility Test (2009) CSIR-NET and awarded

My PhD thesis is downloadable from here

Ritwik_Final thesis.pdf