Education

• Ph.D. in Statistics, Iowa State University, 2021 - Present.
• M.Stat., Indian Statistical Institute, 2018 - 2020.
• B.Sc. (Hons.) Statistics, Ramakrishna Mission Residential College (Autonomous), Narendrapur, 2015 - 2018.

Experience

• Summer 2023 - Present : Graduate Research Assistant, Iowa State University, IA, USA.
  • Contributing to an NIH-NCI-funded project titled “Using Natural Language Processing and Crowd-sourcing to Monitor and Evaluate Public Information and Communication Disparities About Colon Cancer.”
  • Helping the group with statistical analysis using tools from bayesian inference and traditional statistics.
  • Devoloping a methodology to analyze the complex dataset generated from the study by borrowing classical concepts in Linear Models and Bayesian Inference.
• Summer 2024 : Statistics Summer Intern, Pfizer Inc., PA, USA.
  • Collaborated with drug developers in Inflammation and Immunology (I&I) group under the Global Biometric and Data Management Division (GBDM).
  • Learned foundational concepts of clinical trials from domain experts.
  • Conducted a methodological research by borrowing recent advancements from reinforcement learning and causal inference. The manuscript is under preparation.
• Fall 2021 - Spring 2023 : Graduate Teaching Assistant, Iowa State University, IA, USA.
  • Organized weekly lectures and lab sessions independently as an instructor to teach introductory statistics courses to undergraduate students of business and engineering majors with class sizes ranging between 50 and 80.
• Fall 2020 - Spring 2021 : Data Scientist, Decimal Technologies Pvt. Ltd., Gurgaon, India.
  • Added machine learning-based improvements in API-based solutions such as face detection and matching across IDs, automatic ID number masking, and extracting key fields from balance sheets with optical character recognition (OCR) and basic natural language processing (NLP).
  • Worked on NLP-based tasks such as news sentiment analysis, named entity recognition, etc.
  • Improved feature extractions and analysis to improve the loan disbursement recommendation engine.

Awards

• Spring 2023 : Teaching Excellence Award, Graduate College, Iowa State University.
  • Awarded annually to the top 10% of Graduate student instructors at ISU to recognize and encourage outstanding teaching achievement.
• Fall 2022 : The George W. Snedecor Award, Department of Statistics, Iowa State University.
  • Awarded annually to outstanding student(s) based on performance on the Ph.D. preliminary written exam and in statistics courses.
  • Co-winner: Yuyang Li.
• Spring 2020: Graduated the M.Stat with Distinction, Indian Statistical Institute.
  • Awarded the degree with distinction by maintaining a good academic standing and securing more than 75% of total marks possible in all courses combined.
• Spring 2018 : Dr. Mrinal Kanti Basu Memorial Prize, Ramakrishna Mission Residential College (Autonomous), Narendrapur.
  • Awarded annually for securing the first position in B.Sc.(Hons.) Statistics program.
• Fall 2015 : The DST-Inspire Scholarship 2015, Department of Science & Technology, Government of India.
  • Awarded to the top one percentile of students pursuing an undergraduate degree in basic sciences from Indian institutes.

Last Updated: January 20, 2025