Professional Experience
Assistant Professor (Research) (2023 - present) Division of Biostatistics, Department of Population Health, NYU School of Medicine
Postdoctoral Fellow (2018 - 2021*) Biostatistics Branch, National Cancer Institute, NIH (Rockville, Maryland)
Mentors: Drs. Ruth Pfeiffer and Jianxin Shi
*Gap due to long wait times at US consulate for obtaining work visa after COVID-19 pandemic closures and backlog.
Education
Ph.D. in Statistics (2013 - 2018) Dept. of Statistics, Texas A&M University (College Station, Texas)
Chair: Prof. Samiran Sinha
Co-Chair: Prof. Suojin Wang
Master of Science in Statistics (2010 - 2012) Dept. of Statistics, University of Calcutta (Kolkata, India)
Bachelor of Science in Statistics (2007 - 2010) Dept. of Statistics, Maulana Azad College, University of Calcutta (Kolkata, India)
Honors
2023 Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics Informatics Tool Challenge Winner for Web-based application to calculate cure probabilities for patients with colorectal cancer from National Cancer Institute, NIH [link]
2017 Ruth J. and Howard F. Newton Memorial Graduate Student Teaching Award (for excellent classroom teaching by a graduate student), Dept. of Statistics, Texas A&M University [link]
2013 Dean's Doctoral Scholarship, Office of Graduate Studies, Texas A&M University
Computational Skills
I have written novel R codes and Fortran subroutines. I have used parallel computing extensively in my research and have written a CRAN package named ICEMELT for one of my thesis papers. I also have basic knowledge of SAS and C++.
My GitHub page: https://github.com/mandals3
ICEMELT package: https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/icemelt/