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 Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Statistics 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, perform posterior approximations and sampling, and develop Bayesian Transfer Learning techniques to incorporate them into innovative clinical trial designs. I am also interested in non-parametric Bayesian methods and finding 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.

At UMN Biostats, I currently help organize the Advanced Bayesian (AdBAYES) and Posterior Consistency and Contraction (PCnC) working groups.

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.