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Education:
- Ph.D. Statistics, Univ. of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC), July, 1989
- M. Stat.(Master of
Statistics),Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta, India,
June, 1986
- B. Stat.(Bachelor of
Statistics),Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta, India,
June, 1984
Professional Positions:
- Professor (August 2001 - Present)
- Department Graduate Coordinator
(August'01 - July'05)
- Associate Professor (August'94 -
July'01), University of Louisiana at Lafayette (Formerly
University of Southwestern Louisiana)
- Assistant Professor (August' 89 -
July' 94)
- Visiting Assistant Professor (Jan -
May' 89) University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
- Visiting Scientist, Division of
Theoretical Statistics & Mathematics, Indian Statistical
Institute, Calcutta, India, (Summer'92, Winter'92,
Summer'94, Summer'96, Summer'97, Summer'98)
- Visiting Faculty: Tamkang
University (Taiwan), Summer 2006; Ming Chuan University
(Taiwan), Summer 2007
Research Interests:
- Decision Theory & Bayesian Analysis
- Reliability & Life testing
- Biostatistics
Honors and Awards:
- Nominated member of the Phi-Kappa-Phi Honor Society, University of Maryland Chapter, 1988.
- Won the Best Presentation prize in the `Graduate Student Research Day', University of Maryland, 1988.
- Recipient of the American Statistical Association Scholarship to attend summer conference sponsored by the American Statistical Association and Southern Regional Conference on Statistics, 1987.
- Recipient of the National
Scholarship, awarded by the Ministry of Education &
Culture, Government of India, 1979.
Member of:
- American Statistical Association
- Indian Statistical Association
- The Indian Science Congress
- Calcutta Statistical Association
Editorial Board Member:
- Journal of Future Studies (Tamkang University, Taiwan)
- Calcutta Statistical Association Bulletin
- Sankhya: The Indian Journal of
Statistics (Series B)
Served As A Refree For:
- Journal of Multivariate Analysis
- Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics
- Statistics & Decisions
- Communications in Statistics
- Journal of Statistical Computation & Simulation
- The American Statistician
- Statistics & Probability Letters
- American Mathematical Monthly
- Annals of Statistics
- Statistics
Research Grants:
- Faculty Summer Research Grant, Univ. of Southwestern Louisiana, Summer 1991, $3,450.
- Faculty Development Grant, Univ. of Southwestern Louisiana, Fall 1992, $550.
- Young Researchers' Grant for Writing Workshop, Institute of Mathematical Statistics, $1,100.
- Young Researchers' Grant to attend the First North American Young Researchers' Meeting at Univ. of California - Berkeley, Institute of Mathematical Statistics, Summer 1993.
- Faculty Summer Research Grant, Univ. of Southwestern Louisiana, Summer 1993, $3,855.
- 'Coastal Wetland Planning, Protection & Restoration', Department of Natural Resources (DNR), State of Louisiana, 1993 - 1996, DNR Agreement No. 25085-93-10, $40,000.
- Conference Grant for the Second North American Meeting of New Researchers in Statistics & Probability. National Science Foundation, Summer 1995. Grant No. DMS 9504227, $10,150.
- Conference Grant for the Second North American Meeting of New Researchers in Statistics & Probability. National Security Agency, Summer 1995. Grant No. MSPF 95C-172, $10,000.
- 'Statistical Consultant - Coastal Wetland Planning, Protection and Restoration Act (CWPPRA)', Department of Natural Resources, State of Louisiana, June, 1993 - June, 1996. DNR agreement No. 25085-93-10, $40,000.
- 'Coastal Wetland Planning, Protection & Restoration', Department of Natural Resources (DNR), State of Louisiana, July, 1996 - June, 1999. DNR Agreement No. 25085-96-07, $20,000.
- 'Statistical Consulting Support to Coastal Wetland Planning, Protection & Restoration Act (CWPPRA) Monitoring Program',Department of Natural Resources (DNR), State of Louisiana,July, 1999 - June, 2002. DNR Agreement No. 2503-00-26, $20,000.
- 'Statistical Consulting Support to Coastal Wetland Planning, Protection & Restoration Act (CWPPRA) Monitoring Program', Department of Natural Resources (DNR), State of Louisiana, July, 2002 - June, 2005. DNR Agreement No. 2503-03-02, $22,800.
- 'Statistical Consulting Support to Coastal Wetland Planning, Protection & restoration Act (CWPPRA) Monitoring program', Department of natural resources (DNR), State of Louisiana, July, 2005 - June 2008. DNR Agreement No. 2503-06-06, $14,400.
- 'Continuous Structured Population Models with Application to Green Tree Frogs', (Co-PI, in a group of three investigators including the PI), National Science Foundation, Contract No. DMS-0718465, September 2007 -
August 2010, $250,000.
- 'A Workshop on Hellinger Distance with Applications', Faculty Development Grant (Office of Academic Planning & Faculty Development), Fall 2008, $500.
- 'A Biostatistics Workshop on Survival Analysis with Applications in Cancer Studies', Faculty Development Grant (Office of Academic Planning & Faculty Development), Fall 2009, $500.
- 17. 'Modeling of Short-Term and Long-Term Marine Mammal Population Trends in the Vicinity of the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Using Passive Acoustic Monitoring Cues', (Co-PI, in a group of three investigators including the PI),
National Science Foundation, Contract No. DMS - 1059753, September 2010 - August 2011, $192,197.
Other Activities and Experiences:
- Vice-President (05/92 - 04/93 and 05/01 - 04/02), Louisiana Chapter, American Statistical Association.
- President (05/93 - 04/94 and 05/02 - 04/03), Louisiana Chapter, American Statistical Association.
- Secretary-Treasurer (May'94 - Apr'95), Louisiana Chapter, American Statistical Association.
- Member of the New Researchers' Committee (Aug'93- Jul'95) Institute of Mathematical Statistics.
- Grant Reviewer, U. S. Environmental Protection Agency.
- Given numerous talks at National/International meetings and conferences.
- Member, Graduate Faculty Peer Review Committee, College of Sciences (1999-2001), University of Louisiana at Lafayette (ULL).
- Departmental consultant for statistical projects. (Provide service to local businesses, industries and law offices on statistical data analyses).
- Appeared before courts (both parish as well as federal) as an expert witness on several legal cases. Analyzed datasets to investigate various types of biases.
Books:
- 'Statistics: Concepts & Applications' (with S. Sarkar), Prentice-Hall of India,
New Delhi, India.
(a) First edition, first print (404 pages): January 2005
(b) First edition, second print (404 pages): January 2007
(c) Second edition (472 pages): January 2008
- 'Handbook of Exponential and Related Distributions for Engineers and Scientists'
(with Jin, C. and Lim, W. K.), Chapman & Hall / CRC Press (Taylor & Francis Group) (2005), Boca Raton, Florida, 376 pages.
Graduate Level Courses Taught:
- Mathematical Statistics (Statistical Inferences)
- Applied Multivariate Analysis
- Applied Regression
- Design of Experiments
- Sample Surveys
- Reliability
- Advanced Inference (Statistical Decision Theory)
- Advanced Multivariate Analysis
- Special Topics in Statistics (Asymptotic Theory)
- Biostatistics
UnderGraduate Level Courses Taught:
- Elementary Statistics
- Introductory Biostatistics
- Calculus - I, II, III
- Operations Research
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