Faculty Achievements to be uploaded in the Departmental Achievement section of the Department of Statistics [2024-2025]
Dr. Surupa Chakraborty
Journal Publication
1. Rana, S., & Roy, S. (2024): Ordinal family data analysis with measurement error in covariates. Communications in Statistics- Simulation and Computation. https://doi.org/ 10.1080/03610918.2024.2443200.
2. Sengupta, D. and Roy, S., (2024): Estimation of mean using under-reported and overdispersed count data. Communications in Statistics-Simulation and Computation. DOI: 10.1080/03610918.2024.2420262
3. Roy, S., Adhya, S. and Rana, S., (2024). Estimation of odds ratio from group testing data with misclassified exposure. Biometrical Journal, 66(1), p.2200254.
Talk delivered:
1. Delivered an online talk titled "Mostly Harmless Pooling" as a speaker for the CSA outreach program organized by the Calcutta Statistical Association on August 10th, 2024.
2. Served as a resource person, delivering a talk on "Exploring R: From Basic Statistics to Advanced Techniques" held at at Dr. B. C. Roy Academy of Professional Courses during the faculty development program (FDP) titled "Emerging Trends in Business Analytics for Data-Driven Decision Making", from July 22 to July 27, 2024.
3. Served as a resource person delivering a talk on “Regression”, in a three-day workshop on “Data-Driven Decision making in Research” organized by the Department of Statistics in collaboration with Postgraduate Department of Sociology held at St Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Kolkata from July 18 to July 20 , 2024.
4. Served as a resource person in a five-day workshop on “Fundamentals of Research Methodology using application software”, organized by the Department of Management Studies, NIT Durgapur, held online from June 24th to June 28th, 2024.
5. Served as a resource person in a five-day hands-on workshop on “Research Methodologies Based on SPSS, Python, JAMOVI, R, and COMSOL,” , held online from April 10 to April 14, 2024, organized by the Department of Mathematics, School of Advanced Sciences, and the Department of MBA, VIT Business School, Vellore Institute of Technology, Chennai.
6. Served as a speaker and panelist in a seminar on “Rashi Vigyan,” organized by the Department of Statistics at the University of Calcutta, on the topic "Statistics and/or Data Science" on March 20, 2024.
7. Served as a resource person, delivering a talk on “Inferential Statistics using R” at a Faculty Development Program (FDP) titled "Introduction to Research Methodology using Analytical Software." The event was held online from February 19, 2024, to February 23, 2024, and organized by the Department of Business Administration and the Department of Supply Chain Management at Dr. B. C. Roy Academy of Professional Courses, Durgapur.
Dr. Surabhi Dasgupta
Publications
Antimicrobial and antibiofilm effect of Bergenia ciliata (Haw.) Sternb plant parts against oral clinical isolates: A comparative study. (2024). N. Mokhtan, R. Dey, T. Paul, D.N. Roy, S. Dasgupta, R. Kundu & A. Banerjee (2024) (Under revision)
Invited Talks
Delivered a talk on Testing of Hypothesis at a 3-day workshop on Data Driven Decision-Making in Research organized by the Department of Statistics, St. Xavier`s College (Autonomous) Kolkata in collaboration with the Post graduate department of Sociology, St. Xavier`s College (Autonomous) Kolkata, from July 18th- 20th, 2024.
Dr. Ayan Chandra
Publications
“Unveiling the potential of Halotolerant bacteria as PGPR with an ANOVA and Time Series enhanced study for sustainable agriculture” (2024) - Journal of Mycopathological research 20(1):137-142.
“Unleaded agriculture: Myth to reality by wetland microbial flora” (2024) - Environmental Quality Management (Wiley).
“Harnessing Carbon Nanomaterials: Applications and Innovations” (2024) – IGI Global.
Lectures delivered
Acted as a Resource Person in JHEASA Workshop for North-Zone IQAC Coordinators organized by St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Kolkata from 29th November to 1st December, 2024.
Delivered lectures on NIRF Ranking framework on various workshops organized by Department of Higher Education, Government of West Bengal.
Delivered Lecture on NAAC Accreditation in various institutes.
Participated in JHEASA Annual Conference 2024 on “Discernment – Networking-Collaboration Where is the Spirit calling us?” from 26th to 28th of January, 2024.
Dr. Durba Bhattacharya
Publications
2025
1. Jain R., Saha A., Bhattacharya D., Das Gupta M., Chowdhury S, Daga G., Roychowdhury S., Gender-Based Comparative Study of Type 2 Diabetes Risk Factors in Kolkata, India: Frequentist versus Bayesian Approach in Machine Learning; EPJ Web Conf., Volume 325, 2025, International Conference on Advanced Physics for Sustainable Future: Innovations and Solutions.
2. Sen S., Bhattacharya D., Das Gupta M., Jain R., Identifying Key Predictors of Type 2 Diabetes through Bayesian Variable Selection: A Cross-Sectional Study with Gender-Specific Insights; Accepted for publication as a conference proceeding in the ICDMAI2025(9th International Conference on Data Management, Analytics & Innovation).
2024
3. Bhattacharya D., Bhattacharya S., Gene-Gene and Gene-Environment Interactions in Case Control Studies Based on Hierarchies of Dirichlet Processes, Statistics and Applications {ISSN 2454-7395 (online)} Special Issue in Memory of Prof. C R Rao Volume 22, No. 3, December 2024.
4. Jain R., Bhattacharya D., Das Gupta M. and Banerjee S., Lifestyle, BMI, Age, and Waist-To Height Ratio as Indicators for Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: A Gender-Based Comparative Study in Kolkata, West Bengal, India. Asian Journal of Statistical Sciences, Year: ISSN: 2582-9912; 2023, Vol.3 (2), PP.169-176; Publication: April 2024.
Talks/ Resource Person
1. Delivered an Invited talk on “Applications of Bayesian non-parametric methodologies in genetic association studies” in the 27th Annual Conference of The Society of Statistics, Computer and Applications (SSCA) INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE on Advances of Interdisciplinary Statistics and Applications in AI & ML (AISAAM-2025) February 21-23, 2025 Organized by Department of Statistics, North-Eastern Hill University, Shillong-793022, Meghalaya.
2. Resource person at the Workshop on "Big Data Through Bayesian And Non-Bayesian Lenses" [6th Feb-7th Feb 2025] Organized by Interdisciplinary Statistical Research Unit (ISRU), Kolkata.
3. Delivered an Invited talk on “Bayesian Nonparametrics – Development and Applications with a Focus on Dirichlet Process-Based Mixture Models” at the Ninth International Conference on “Recent Trends in Statistical Theory and Applications-2024” (WSTA – 2024), organized by the Department of Statistics, School of Physical & Mathematical Sciences, University of Kerala jointly with International Statistics Fraternity (ISF), Kerala Statistical Association (KSA), and Statistics Fraternity Kerala (SFK) from 29 June - 02 July 2024.
Session Chair
1. Chaired a session in the 27th Annual Conference of The Society of Statistics, Computer and Applications (SSCA) International Conference on Advances of Interdisciplinary Statistics and Applications in AI & ML (AISAAM-2025) February 21-23, 2025 Organized by Department of Statistics, North-Eastern Hill University, Shillong-793022, Meghalaya.
2. Chaired a session in the Ninth International Conference on “Recent Trends in Statistical Theory and Applications-2024” (WSTA – 2024), June 29 - July 02, 2024, organized by the Department of Statistics, School of Physical & Mathematical Sciences, University of Kerala, jointly with International Statistics Fraternity (ISF), Kerala Statistical Association (KSA) and Statistics Fraternity Kerala (SFK).
Prof. Madhura Das Gupta
Publications
Jain R., Saha A., Bhattacharya D., Das Gupta M., Chowdhury S, Daga G, Roychowdhury S., Gender-Based Comparative Study of Type 2 Diabetes Risk Factors in Kolkata, India: Frequentist versus Bayesian Approach in Machine Learning; EPJ Web Conf., Volume 325, 2025, International Conference on Advanced Physics for Sustainable Future: Innovations and Solutions.
Sen S., Bhattacharya D., Das Gupta M., Jain R., Identifying Key Predictors of Type 2 Diabetes through Bayesian Variable Selection: A Cross-Sectional Study with Gender-Specific Insights; Accepted for publication as a conference proceeding in the ICDMAI 2025 (9th International Conference on Data Management, Analytics & Innovation).
Lifestyle, BMI, Age, and Waist-To-Height Ratio As Indicators For Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: A Gender-Based Comparative Study In Kolkata, West Bengal, India. Asian Journal of Statistical Sciences, Year: ISSN: 2582-9912; 2023, Vol.3 (2), PP.169-176; Publication: April 2024.
Participation in Workshops
Participated in a 2 1/2-day ‘"Workshop on modelling the public health impact of enteric and respiratory vaccines", from 9th - 11th January, 2025, NDMC, IIT Bombay.
Participated in a 4-day ‘Measles and Rubella Transmission Modelling Workshop’’ from 5th - 8th February, 2024, NDMC, IIT Bombay.
Participated in the IBM SkillsBuild for Academia Virtual Train-the Trainer (T3) Workshop for Data Science in January, 2024.
Resource Person
Resource person at the Workshop on "Big Data Through Bayesian And Non-Bayesian Lenses" [6th Feb-7th Feb 2025] Organized by Interdisciplinary Statistical Research Unit (ISRU), Kolkata.
Paper Presentation
Presented a paper entitled “Estimating the hazard functions of alternately occurring recurrent events under interval censoring” at ELEVENTH INTERNATIONAL CALCUTTA TRIENNIAL SYMPOSIUM On Probability and Statistics By DEPARTMENT OF STATISTICS, UNIVERSITY OF CALCUTTA & CALCUTTA STATISTICAL ASSOCIATION, DECEMBER 27-30, 2024
Presented a paper entitled “Gender-Based Comparative Study of Type 2 Diabetes Risk Factors in Kolkata, India: A Machine Learning Approach” at TWO DAY INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE on MODERN STATISTICS FOR RECENT DEVELOPMENTS DATA SCIENCE TECHNIQUES (ICMSRDDST-2024) in Department of Statistics, Sri Venkateswara University, Tirupati, India on 16th February, 2024.
Dr. Sancharee Basak
Publications
Sancharee Basak, Uttam Bandyopadhyay and Atanu Biswas (2025): Partial sequential testing for comparing two univariate normal distributions, Sequential Analysis, Volume 44, Issue No. 1, pp 111-133, DOI: 10.1080/07474946.2024.2443405.
Sancharee Basak and Ayanendranath Basu (2024): The extended Bregman divergence and parametric estimation in continuous models, Sankhya B, Volume 86, pp 333-365, DOI: 10.1007/s13571-024-00333-z.
Paper Presentations and Participation in Conferences/Seminars/Workshops
Peer-reviewed a paper titled A new robust approach for the polytomous logistic regression model based on Rényi's pseudodistances which was published in Biometrics (Publication Office – Oxford University Press) in October 2024, DOI: 10.1093/biomtc/ujae125.
Participated as a resource person in a 3-day workshop on Data-Driven Decision-Making in Research, organized by the Department of Statistics in collaboration with the Postgraduate Department of Sociology, St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Kolkata in July 2024.
Participated and presented a talk in the Ninth International Conference on Recent Trends in Statistical Theory and Applications 2024 (WSTA 2024), organized by the Department of Statistics, School of Physical & Mathematical Sciences, University of Kerala jointly with International Statistics Fraternity (ISF), Kerala Statistical Association (KSA) and Statistics Fraternity Kerala (SFK) in June 2024.
Participated in the One Week National Level Online Faculty Development Program on Outcome Based Education and Application of Generative AI in Teaching and Research, organized by the Internal Quality Assurance Cell (IQAC) of Gauhati University, Assam in association with ipsr solutions limited from 17th April 2024 to 24th April 2024.
Prof. Rahul Roy
Publications
Roy, R., & Bhandari, S. K. (2024). Asymptotic Bayes’ optimality under sparsity for exchangeable dependent multivariate normal test statistics. Statistics & Probability Letters, 207, 110030.
Participation in Conference/Seminar/Workshop
Delivered an invited lecture on “Large-scale Sequential Multiple Testing Controlling FDR and FNR Simultaneously” in a workshop on multiple testing organised by the Department of Statistics, University of Calcutta on 6th January, 2024.
Dr. Soumya Banerjee
Participation in Conferences and Workshops
Delivered an Invited talk on “Statistical Analysis using Non Parametric methods” in FDP on “NON-PARAMETRIC METHODOLOGIES FOR DATA ANALYSIS” organized by Operational Research Society of India (ORSI) during February 8 – February 14, 2025.
Presented a paper on “Selection of an Optimal Portfolio using heuristic techniques” in the International Conference ICBIT during January 30 – January 31, 2025.
Presented a paper on “Portfolio Optimization using Soft Computing techniques” in Eleventh Calcutta Triennial Symposium on Probability and Statistics, organized by Department of Statistics, University of Calcutta during December 27 – December 30, 2024.
Delivered an Invited talk on “Data Analysis on CATALYSING ENTREPRENEURSHIP CULTURE & START-UP ECOSYSTEM IN NORTH BENGAL” at AICTE-ATAL FDP in IIAS, University of North Bengal during August 19 – August 24, 2024.
Dr. Surupa Chakraborty
Publications:
Dr. Durba Bhattacharya
Mr. Debjit Sengupta
Publication
Ms. Madhura Das Gupta
Dr. Sancharee Basak
Publication
Paper Presentation and Participation in Conferences/Seminars/Workshops:
Mr. Rahul Roy
4 students qualified the ISI Entrance Exam for the MStat Course and 3 students qualified the JAM Entrance Exam for postgraduate programmes under IITs.