Introduction

 I am a fifth-year PhD candidate at the Division of Biostatistics & Health Data Science, University of Minnesota School of Public Health, advised by Dr. Steffen Ventz. Before this, I completed the Master's and Bachelor's of Statistics degrees from the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata in 2021 and 2019 respectively, during which I was supported by the Kishore Vaigyanik Protsahan Yojana fellowship (2016-2021). 

 I am primarily interested in Bayesian inference techniques including methods to elicit prior information, compute posterior approximations, and develop Bayesian data borrowing techniques to incorporate them into innovative clinical trial designs and causal inference. I am also interested in non-parametric Bayesian methods and looking at non-parametric solutions to traditional parametric designs. At the UMN Division of Biostatistics, I work with Dr. Steffen Ventz on finding subgroups exhibiting heterogeneous treatment effects of drugs in trials where the problem of the target data having a possibly smaller control population may be circumvented using external data sources. 

Most recently, I was a PhD Biostatistician intern at Eli Lilly & Company with Lars Lau Raket, Tongrong Wang and Anna Eames Seffernick on analyzing patient-reported outcomes in Alzheimer's disease (AD). I also interned Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research with Anwesha Chaudhury, Andy Stein, and Bambang Adiwijaya on assessing the surrogacy of tumor size shrinkage on non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Previously, I was a summer research intern at the Bioinspired Communication Systems Lab (now, Self-Organizing Systems Lab), Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany under Prof. Heinz Koeppl.

I currently help organize the Advanced Bayesian (AdBAYES) Working Group.

Besides research, I devote my hours to painting, listening to Indian classical music and scribbling poems and travelogues in my yellow journal. I am also a keen traveller and a photography enthusiast. You can find some of the photographs I clicked here and some more on my Instagram.

My CV can be found here.