Publications   (in reverse chronological order)                                                    

1. (2025): Soumita Modak*, Confirmation of binary clustering in gamma-ray bursts through an integrated p-value from multiple nonparametric tests of hypotheses, Astronomy and Computing, 51, Article id: 100931

2. (2024): Soumita Modak*, A New Clustering Accuracy Measure Based on Relative Distances and its Cross-Validation Using Dirichlet Distribution, Journal of Statistical Theory and Practice, Volume 18, article number 43 

3. Book Review : (2024): Soumita Modak*, Finding Groups in Data: An Introduction to Cluster Analysis, Journal of Applied Statistics, 51, 1618-1620

4. (2024): Soumita Modak*, Evaluation of the number of clusters in a data set using p-values from multiple tests of hypotheses, Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods, 53, 8878-8889.

5. (2024): Soumita Modak*, Determination of the number of clusters through logistic regression analysis, Journal of Applied Statistics, 51, 2344-2363

6. (2024): Soumita Modak*, A new interpoint distance-based clustering algorithm using kernel density estimation, Communications in Statistics - Simulation and Computation, 53, 5323-5341  (arXiv)

7. (2023): Soumita Modak*,  Pointwise norm-based clustering of data in arbitrary dimensional space , Communications in Statistics - Case Studies, Data Analysis and Applications, 9, 121–134 

8. Book Review : (2023): Soumita Modak*, Statistical Methods for Astronomical Data Analysis, Australian & New Zealand Journal of Statistics, 65, 394–395 

9. (2023): Soumita Modak*, Validity index for clustered data in non-negative space, Calcutta Statistical Association Bulletin,  75, 60–71 

10. (2023): Soumita Modak*, A new measure for assessment of clustering based on kernel density estimation, Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods , 52, 5942-5951  (arXiv)

11. (2023): P. Banerjee, A. K. Chattopadhyay and Soumita Modak,  A New Approach to Astronomical Data Analysis Based on Multiple Variables, Advances in Astronomy, Volume 2023, Article ID: 8682054, 11 pages 

12. (2022): Soumita Modak*, A new nonparametric interpoint distance-based measure for assessment of clustering, Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation, 92 , 1062-1077 (arXiv)

13. (2022): Soumita Modak*, T. Chattopadhyay and A. K. Chattopadhyay, Clustering of eclipsing binary light curves through functional principal component analysis, Astrophysics and Space Science, Volume 367, Article id 19 (arXiv) 

14. (2021): Soumita Modak*, Distinction of groups of gamma-ray bursts in the BATSE catalog through fuzzy clustering , Astronomy and Computing, Volume 34, Article id 100441 (arXiv)

15. Application Note :  (2020): Soumita Modak*, T. Chattopadhyay and A. K. Chattopadhyay, Unsupervised classification of eclipsing binary light curves through k-medoids clustering , Journal of Applied Statistics, 47, 376-392 (arXiv) 

16. Doctoral Thesis : (2019): Soumita Modak*, Uncovering astrophysical phenomena related to galaxies and other objects through statistical analysis, PhD Thesis, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, India, 2019. URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10603/314773                                                                                                                                                                                                                                

17. (2019): Soumita Modak  and Uttam Bandyopadhyay, A new nonparametric test for two sample multivariate location problem with application to astronomy, Journal of Statistical Theory and Applications, 18, 136-146 (arXiv)

18. (2018): Soumita Modak*,  A. K. Chattopadhyay and T. Chattopadhyay, Clustering of gamma-ray bursts through kernel principal component analysis, Communications in Statistics - Simulation and Computation, 47, 1088-1102 (arXiv) 

19.  (2018):  Uttam Bandyopadhyay and Soumita Modak*, Bivariate density estimation using normal-gamma kernel with application to astronomy , Journal of Applied Probability and Statistics, 13, 23-39 (arXiv) 

20. (2017) : Soumita Modak*, T. Chattopadhyay and A. K. Chattopadhyay, Two phase formation of massive elliptical galaxies: study through cross-correlation including spatial effect , Astrophysics and Space Science, Volume 362, Article id 206 (arXiv) 

21. (2016): K. S. Ganguly, Soumita Modak*, K. S. Ganguly and A. K. Chattopadhyay, Study on Temporal Effects of Urban Malaria Incidences, International Journal of Statistics in Medical Research, 5, 120-132 

22. (2016): K. S. Ganguly, Soumita Modak, A. K. Chattopadhyay, K. S. Ganguly, T. K. Mukherjee, A. Dutta, and D. Biswas, Forecasting Based On a SARIMA Model of Urban Malaria for Kolkata, American Journal of Epidemiology and Infectious Disease, 4, 22-33

Publishers (worked with)

• Springer

•  Taylor & Francis

•  Elsevier

• Wiley

•  Atlantis Press

•  SAGE 

• Hindawi

Citations

• Citations: 235, h-index: 11, i10-index: 12 (Source: Google Scholar)

Invited Peer Reviewer

• Journal

  1. Computers, Materials & Continua  

  2. Knowledge and Information Systems

  3. Scientific Reports

  4. ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data

  5.  Cluster Computing

  6.  Expert Systems With Applications

  7. Neurocomputing

  8. Accreditation and Quality Assurance

  9.  Statistical Methods & Applications

  10.  Journal of Applied Probability and Statistics 

  11. Journal of Modern Physics 

  12. Renewable Energy & Power Quality Journal

• Conference

  1. 5th International Conference on Fuzzy Systems and Data Mining (FSDM 2019) held in Kitakyushu City, Japan, 2019

Projects

• B.Sc. Project: Sampling distribution through simulation

• M.Sc. Project: A Study of the Economic  Growth in U.S.A.

Project Supervision

• B.Sc. Statistics Honors: Astrostatistics: Statistical data analysis on astronomical data (Sem 6, 2025)

Students' name: Project title

1. Anupriya Das: A Statistical Analysis to Identify Habitable Exoplanets

2. Reeddhi Roy: A statistical analysis to predict pulsar star

3. Tanusree Das: A Statistical Study on Stellar Properties 

4. Krittika Ghosh: A Statistical Study on Stellar Characteristics 

• B.Sc. Statistics Honors: Time Series and Stochastic Processes (Sem 6, 2021-24)

Title of students' projects from Sem 6, 2024 (with student's name)

1. Analyzing the Dynamics of Crime in India-A Time Series Approach (Sristi Banerjee)

2.  Analysis of Microsoft Stock over 2015-2021 (Anusrita Mitra)

3. Nifty 50 Time Series Forecasting (Aarushi Kumar)

Title of students' projects from Sem 6, 2023

1.  Time Series Analysis on Unemployment in India from 1991-2019

2. Time Series Analysis on Rainfall in Haryana from 2000-2015

3. A Statistical Study on Air Quality Index of Kolkata from 2014-2017 using Time Series Analysis