Souvik Ray  শৌভিক রায়

Hi, I am Souvik Ray, currently a post-doctoral research associate at the Department of Mathematics at Iowa State University. My post-doc mentor is Prof. Ruoyu Wu. Currently I am working on large deviation theory for several problems inspired from interacting particle systems and queueing systems. 

I was a post-doc at the School of Data Science and Society (SDSS), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from Fall 2023 to Spring 2025. My post-doc mentor was Prof. Amarjit Budhiraja. I obtained my Ph.D. from the Department of Statistics at Stanford University in the Spring of 2023. I am very fortunate to be advised by Prof. Sourav Chatterjee for my Ph. D. dissertation. My doctoral research involves an investiagtion of stability properties for random optimization problems with a particular focus on problems arsing from mathematical physics, combinatorial optimization and operations research. At UNC, I worked on network control problems on dynamical random graph models with Prof. Shankar Bhamidi and  Prof. Amarjit Budhiraja. I am also interested in random walk problems, random matrix theory, large deviations and stochastic analysis. For a detailed version of my research interests and work, please have a look at my CV .

Before joining Stanford in 2018, I obtained my Masters' degree (M. Stat) in probability and mathematical statistics from Indian Statistical Institute, kolkata in 2018 and my Bachelors' degree (B. Stat) in statistics from the same institute in 2016.