Dr. Surupa Chakraborty

Publications:

• Sengupta, D., & Roy, S. (2023): Modelling zero inflated and under-reported count data. Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation. 93(14), Pg 2390-2409.
• Adhya, S., Roy, S. & Banerjee, T. (2022): Prediction of finite population proportion when responses are misclassified. Journal of Survey Statistics and methodology, 10(5), Pg 1319-1345

Dr. Durba Bhattacharya

• Delivered the J K Ghosh Memorial Endowment lecture at the "Silver Jubilee (annual) International Conference on Significance of Statistical Sciences in the Emerging Scenario" organized by the Society of Statistics, Computer and Applications (SSCA) and The Department of Statistics, University of Jammu on 15th February, 2023.
• Resource person at the workshop on "An Advanced Training Program on Bayesian Modelling and Simulation", organized by DST-CIMS, Banaras Hindu University on 6th January, 2023.
• Resource person at the workshop on "Bayesian Inference and Computation", organized by the Interdisciplinary Statistical research Unit, ISI, Kolkata, during 19th-23rd December, 2022.
• Delivered an Invited talk on "A Novel Bayesian Hierarchical Testing Procedure in Studying Genetic Interactions in Case-Control Studies" at Sixth International Webinar on RECENT TRENDS IN STATISTICAL THEORY AND APPLICATIONS-2022 (WSTA-2022) in conjunction with Fifth Annual Convention of Statistics Fraternity Kerala (SFK) Indian Society for Probability and Statistics (ISPS), Kerala Statistical Association (KSA) & Department of Statistics, School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences University of Kerala, Trivandrum, India during 29th June - 1st July, 2022.
• Chaired a Special Invited Session at Sixth International Webinar on RECENT TRENDS IN STATISTICAL THEORY AND APPLICATIONS-2022 (WSTA-2022) in conjunction with Fifth Annual Convention of Statistics Fraternity Kerala (SFK) Indian Society for Probability and Statistics (ISPS), Kerala Statistical Association (KSA) & Department of Statistics, School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences University of Kerala, Trivandrum, India during on 1st July, 2022.

Mr. Debjit Sengupta

Publication

• Sengupta, D.& Roy, S. (2023): Modelling zero inflated and under-reported count data. Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation, 93(14), 2390-2410.

Ms. Madhura Das Gupta

• Paper Presentation: Presented a paper on "Lifestyle, BMI and Waist-to-Height Ratio as Indicators for Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: A Gender Based Comparative Study on Case-Control Diabetes Data in Kolkata, India." at Sixth International Webinar on RECENT TRENDS IN STATISTICAL THEORY AND APPLICATIONS-2022 (WSTA-2022) in conjunction with Fifth Annual Convention of Statistics Fraternity Kerala (SFK) Indian Society for Probability and Statistics (ISPS), Kerala Statistical Association (KSA) & Department of Statistics, School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences University of Kerala, Trivandrum, India on 2nd July, 2022.

Dr. Sancharee Basak

Publication

• Sancharee Basak and Ayanendranath Basu (2022): The extended Bregman divergence and parametric estimation, Statistics, Volume 56, Issue No. 3, pp 699-718.

Paper Presentation and Participation in Conferences/Seminars/Workshops:

• Participated and presented a talk in the Eighth International Conference on Statistics for Twenty-First Century 2022 (ICSTC 2022), organized by the International Statistics Fraternity (ISF), School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences and the Department of Statistics, University of Kerala, Trivandrum in December 2022.
• Participated and presented a talk in the VI International Scientific and Practical Conference 'Statistics and its applications' organized by the Namangan Institute of Engineering and Technology, Namangan, Uzbekistan in October 2022.

Mr. Rahul Roy

• Participated and delivered a contributory lecture on "Asymptotic bayes optimality under sparsity for equicorrelated multivariate normal test statistics" in a conference organized by International Indian Statistical Association (IISA) at IISC Bangalore, in December, 2022.

Highlights of Achievements of the students during July 2022 to June 2023

5 students qualified the ISI Entrance Exam for the MStat Course and 7 students qualified the JAM Entrance Exam for postgraduate programme under IITs. One student qualified the entrance exam for MS-QMS Course. 3 Students qualified the entrance exam of CMI.

Awards and Recognitions:

3rd Year

• Adrija Bhar secured rank 1 in the ISI Entrance Exam for the MStat Course
• Sambit Ghosh secured rank 2 in the JAM Entrance Exam for postgraduate programme under IITs

2nd Year

• Anukriti Mishra
  1. 2nd position in east zone inter - university Basketball tournament representing University of Calcutta
  2. Qualified for all India Inter -University Basketball tournament representing University of Calcutta
  3. 4th position in Open Senior State Basketball Championship representing Xavierians club.
  4. 1st position in Amphoria Basketball Championship representing St Xavier’s College.
  5. 1st position in Umang Basketball Championship , representing St Xavier’s College.
  6. Open Women’s league State Championship representing Xavierians Club
  7. Cleared Actuarial science 2 papers.
• Juhi Goyal
  1. Cleared CS1- Actuarial Statistics.
• Varsha Jaiswal
  1. Completed the foundation level of IIT Madras BS Degree in Data Science.
  2. Represented our college by being the Contingent Leader at Mood Indigo 2022, annual fest of IIT BOMBAY.
  3. Done 3 internships.
• Ahan Prodhan
  1. Inter-Club Table Tennis Tournament Howrah, Dinanta Ashar Club – WINNER.
  2. Inter-Club Table Tennis Tournament Howrah, Bagbadini Club - RUNNERS UP.
• Pritam Saha
  1. Amiphoria'23(Fest of Amity University)-Intercollege stage play -1st.
  2. Verstehen'23(Annual fest of Xaverian Sociological Society)-Inter-college performing arts -2nd
• Shreshtha Sengupta
  1. 2nd Inter Club Karate Championship(Organised by Nirmal Karate Academy)-Bronze medal in fight category.
  2. Statsquill (A National Level Article Writing Competition organized by the department of Statistics and Data Science, Christ University Bangalore on the occasion of National Statistics Day 2023) Position received-Second
• Richa Gupta
  1. Cleared 4 actuarial exams- CM1,CS1,CB2 CS2
• Ankita Dey
  1. 2nd position in group dance competition organised by West Bengal Women Commission in International Kolkata Bookfair 2023.
• Rashi Hamirwasia
  1. Joint Secretary of Rotaract Club of Calcutta Victoria: Coordinated and expedited a keynote speaker session with Dr. Kiran Bedi, having led a team of 55+ volunteers. Raised funds worth ₹1,90,000 and conducted the largest blanket distribution drive in Jamshedpur and Kolkata.
  2. Interned at Gajraj Hyundai: Conducted research and analyzed the contribution of different channels, campaigns or touch points in generating revenue. Assisted in making informed decisions about budget allocation for future marketing and advertising initiatives based on the ROI analysis.
• Souhardya Biswas
  1. Got selected to the National Undergraduate Programme at CMI
• Svadhaa Agarwal
  1. Was one of the Indian Delegates, representing St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Kolkata at ‘ICEES 2022 - Bilateral International Conference on Ecotoxicology and Environmental Sciences’ at Khulna University, Bangladesh.
• Sohini Mandal
  1. Special Award in International Monsoon Art Fair 2023 Presented by Rang Tuli Mon