In Preparation

Shearer, E., Carrión, N.P.,  Jackson, J., Qian, Y.,  Chan, D.M., Sahoo, I. "A Causal Analysis of Academic, Psychological, and Social Influences on College Student Mental Health During the COVID-19 Pandemic"

Ghosal, R., Majumder, S., Sahoo, I. "Fast Spatially Indexed Distributional Outcome Regression" 

Assunção, A.S., Ehlers, R.S., Sahoo, I., Bandyopadhyay, D. "Bayesian spatial binary regression with asymmetric link functions for rare events"

Under Review/Revision

Kuttikat, M., Lund, M. B., Murphy, J., Sahoo, I., Chan, D., Amona, E. "Beyond Western Models: A Grounded Theory Study of Parenting Processes Among Sri Lankan Tamil Refugees Families in Protracted Displacement". PLOS One. Submitted: October 2024 

Maret, A., Dees, C., Fu, Y., Qian, Y., Chan, D., Gandhi, P., Sahoo, I. "Comparative Analysis of NLP Methods for Emotion Detection in Student Responses during COVID-19". The New England Journal of Statistics in Data Science. Submitted: September 2025 

Majumder, S., Sahoo, I. "Bayesian Variable Selection for Censored Spatial Responses with Application to PFAS Concentrations in California". Spatial Statistics. Submitted: October 2025 

Amona, E., Sahoo, I., Su, Y., Boone, E., Nelis, G., Ghanam, R. "Essential Workers at Risk: An Agent-Based Model (SAFE-ABM) with Bayesian Uncertainty Quantification". PLOS Computational Biology. Submitted: April 2025 

Chan, D., Sadler, K., Ibitamuno, C., Satyam, R., Udiani, O., Dudley, M., Manohar, A., Sahoo, I., Qian, Y., Wong, N. "Modeling Deep-Shallow Mindset through Student-Instructor Interactions within the Classroom". Spora: A Journal of Biomathematics. Submitted: September 2025 

Tivenan, S., Sahoo, I., Qian, Y. "A Statistical Framework for Spatial Boundary Estimation and Change Detection: Application to the Sahel Sahara Climate Transition". Environmetrics. Submitted: December 2025 

• Honorable Mention of 2026 JSM ENVR Student Paper Award

Pant, M., Fernandez, L., Sahoo, I. "Spatio-temporal Shared-Field Modeling of Beluga and Bowhead Whale Sightings Using a Joint Marked Log–Gaussian Cox Process". Environmetrics. Submitted: December 2025 

Tivenan, S., Sahoo, I., Qian, Y. "Probabilistic Classification and Uncertainty Quantification of Sahara Desert Climate Using Feedforward Neural Networks". The New England Journal of Statistics in Data Science. Submitted: January 2026 

Pant, M., Fernandez, L., Sahoo, I. "A Gradient Boosted Mixed-Model Machine Learning Framework for Vessel Speed in the U.S. Arctic". Ocean Engineering. Submitted: January 2026 

Mukherjee, D., Wang, K., Song, A. J., Koutros, S., Prokunina-Olsson, L., Purdue, M., Chanock, S., Machiela, M., Dutta, D., Sahoo, I. "TASTE identifies Shared Proteomic Effects on Multiple Related Cancers". Genome Biology. Submitted: January 2026 

Mehta, T.R., Ke, C., Sahoo, I., Ho, K., Patel, A., Patel, N. "The Accuracy of ChatGPT in Recommending Intraocular Lens (IOL) Power for Cataract Surgery". Journal of Cataract and Refractive Surgery. Submitted: January 2026 

Amona, E., Sahoo, I., Chan, D., Lund, M. B., Kuttikat, M. "An Adaptive Graphical Lasso Approach to Modeling Symptom Networks of Common Mental Disorders in Eritrean Refugee Population" International Journal of Data Science and Analytics. Submitted: January 2026 

Refereed Publications/In Press

17. Bjork, J. M., Sahoo, I., Zaur, A. J., Polak, K., and Reisweber, J. (2025). "Attitudinal Predictors of No-Show to Substance Use Disorder Treatment Intake in Veterans". Substance Use: Research and Treatment, 19, 29768357251397727.

16. Amona, E., West, A., White, A., Sahoo, I., Chan, D. M., Gandhi, P., and Qian, Y. (2025). "Breakdown of COVID effects on students’ mental health at the beginning of the pandemic". PLOS Mental Health, 2(6), e0000363.

15. Malladi, S., Sahoo, I., and Lu, Q. (2025). "Missing data imputation and multilevel conditional autoregressive modeling of spatial end-stage renal disease incidence". Biostatistics & Epidemiology, 9(1), e2509049.

14. Amona, E. B., Sahoo, I., Boone, E. L., and Ghanam, R. (2025). "Studying Disease Reinfection Rates, Vaccine Efficacy, and the Timing of Vaccine Rollout in the Context of Infectious Diseases: A COVID-19 Case Study". International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 22(5), 731.

13. Sahoo, I., Majumder, S., Hazra, A., Rappold, A. G., and Bandyopadhyay, D. (2025). "Computationally Scalable Bayesian SPDE Modeling for Censored Spatial Responses". The New England Journal of Statistics in Data Science, 1-15. 

12. Kuttikat, M., Lund, M. B., Chan, D., and Sahoo, I. (2025). "A Conceptual Model of Refugee Family Dynamics: A Study with Sri Lankan Tamils". International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 22(2), 169.

11. Sahoo, I., Kuttikat, M., Chan, D., Murphy, J., Saleh, M., and Lund, M. B. (2024). "Transmigration Stressors, Parent Mental Health, Resource Utilisation and Family Functioning Among Sri Lankan Camp Refugees in India". Migration and Development, 13(1), 25-41.

10. Sahoo, I., Amona, E., Chan, D.M. and Kuttikat, M. (2024) "Enhancing Mental Health Predictions: A Gradient Boosted Model for Sri Lankan Camp Refugees''. Social Sciences 13(5): 255. 

9. Saleh, M., Amona, E., Kuttikat, M., Sahoo, I., Chan, D.M.,  Murphy, J., Kim, K., George, H. and Lund, M. B. (2024) "Child Mental Health Predictors Among Camp Refugees: Utilizing Linear and XGBOOST Models''. PLOS One, 19(9), e0303632. 

8. Sahoo, I., Zhao, J., Deng, X., Cockburn, M.G., Tossas, K., Winn, R. and Bandyopadhyay, D. (2024) "Lung Cancer Prevalence in Virginia: A Spatial Zipcode-Level Analysis via INLA". Current Oncology, 31, 1129-1144. 

7. Amona, E., Ghanam, R., Boone, E.L., Sahoo, I., and Abu-Raddad, L. (2024) "Incorporating Interventions to an Extended SEIRD Model with Vaccination: Application to COVID-19 in Qatar''. Journal of Data Science, Vol. 22, No. 1, 97-115. 

• Winner of 2023 International Indian Statistical Association Conference Student Paper Competition (Category: Application of Statistics and Data Sciences)

6. Sahoo, I., Guinness, J., and Reich, B.J. (2023) "Estimating Atmospheric Motion Winds from Satellite Image Data using Space-time Drift Models''.  Environmetrics, 34 (8), e2818. 

5. Frazier, A., Silva, J., Meilak, R., Sahoo, I., Chan, D. and Broda, M. (2023). ''Decision Tree-Based Predictive Models for Academic Achievement Using College Students' Support Networks'' Journal of Data Science, Vol. 21, No. 3: Special Issue: Advances in Network Data Science, 557-577. 

4. Wikle, C.K., Datta, A., Hari, B.V., Boone, E.L., Sahoo, I., Kavila, I., Castruccio, S., Simmons, S.J., Burr, W.S., and Chang, W. (2023).  "An Illustration of Model Agnostic Explainability Methods Applied to Environmental Data" Environmetrics 34 (1),  e2772. 

3. Boone, E.L., Abdel-Salam, A.S.G., Sahoo, I., Ghanam, R., Chen, X. and Hanif, A. (2023). ''Monitoring SEIRD model parameters using MEWMA for the COVID-19 pandemic with application to the state of Qatar'' Journal of Applied Statistics, 50 (2), 231-246. 

2. Sahoo, I. and Hazra, A. (2021). ''Contamination mapping in Bangladesh using a multivariate spatial Bayesian model for left-censored data'' Journal of the Indian Statistical Association, 59 (2) (Preprint)

1. Sahoo, I., Guinness, J. and Reich, B.J. (2019). ''A Test for Isotropy on a Sphere using Spherical Harmonic Functions''  Statistica Sinica, 29, 1253-1276.   

• Winner of 2018 JSM ENVR Student Paper Award