Experience

Research:

1. Master's Thesis: Can Asymptomatic COVID positive patients spread Symptomatic Infections?

2. Summer 2020 Internship Report: On the Optimization of Information Rate Capacity of the Poisson Channel  with Binary Markov Input

3. Summer 2019 Internship Report: Continuous-time Markov chain on disease networks

Professional Experience:

1. Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, MA, USA 

Retrospective analysis on the use of tumor size to predict overall survival in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients, Jun- August 2023

Mentors: Anwesha Chaudhury, Andrew M. Stein and Bambang Adiwijaya

2. Technical University of Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Hesse, Germany

Optimization of Information Rate Capacity of the Poisson Channel  with Binary Markov Input, July- November 2020

Mentor: Heinz Koeppl

3. Technical University of Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Hesse, Germany

Continuous-time Markov chain on disease networks, May- July 2019

Mentor: Heinz Koeppl

Projects:

1. Public Health- What creates health for people living with HIV in Zimbabwe?

2. UMN Imaging Genetics Journal Club Presentation: Similarity network fusion for aggregating  data types on a genomic scale 

3. Interdisciplinary Health Data Competition 2022 (UMN): Equity and patient satisfaction in value-based hospital incentives (slides) (voice over) (final presentation)

Contributed Talks:

1. Optimal Bayesian Enrichment Trial Designs Leveraging External Clinical Data  with applications in Surgery Trial 

Souradipto Ghosh Dastidar, Steffen Ventz

Joint Statistical Meetings, Portland, OR, August 2024

2. Optimal Bayesian Enrichment Trial Designs Leveraging External Clinical Data   

Souradipto Ghosh Dastidar, Steffen Ventz

WNAR/ IMS/ Graybill Conference, Fort Collins, CO, June 2024

3.  Correcting for Spatial Correlation in Functional Connectivity from Task-based fMRI  

Souradipto Ghosh Dastidar, Oscar Miranda Dominguez, Mark Fiecas

University of San Fransico Data Science Conference, San Francisco, March 2023

Invited Talks:

1. Optimal Bayesian Enrichment Trial Designs Leveraging External Clinical Data   

Souradipto Ghosh Dastidar, Steffen Ventz

ACTStat Meeting 2024, Portland, OR, August 2024

Other Academic Activities:

1. Session Chair at Contributed Session: Survey Sampling and Longitudinal Studies with Applications in Public Health

WNAR/ IMS/ Graybill Conference, Fort Collins, CO, June 2024

2. Presentation Facilitator, PubH 6355 “Pathophysiology of Human Disease, Fall 2021

Supervisor: Dr. Weihong Tang & Dr. Anna Prizment

Teaching Experience:

University of Minneosta

1. Graduate Teaching Assistant, PUBH 6450 - Biostatistics I, Fall 2021

    Supervisor: Marta Shore

Summer Schools and Other camps:

1. University of Washington- Summer Institute in Statistical Genetics Summer 2022

Instructors: Matthew Stephens, Eric C Anderson, Ken Rice, Jonathan C. Wakefield, Jan Graffelman

Courses Taken- Bayesian Analysis for Genetics, MCMC for Genetics, Multivariate Analysis for Genetics

2. National Institute for Science Education and Research Summer 2018

Instructor: Nabin Kumar Jana Course on Random Graphs and Complex Networks

3. Vijyoshi National Science Camp 2015

Speakers: Rudi van Eldik (FAU Erlangen-N ̈urnberg), Raghu Kalluri (MD Anderson Cancer Center), Bimal Roy (ISI Kolkata), Laurie J. Butler (UChicago) etc.