Prof. Amitava Mukherjee

Prof. Amitava Mukherjee

Qualification : Ph.D (Statistics)

Email : amitmukh2@xlri.ac.in, amitmukh2@yahoo.co.in

Functional Area : Production, Operations & Decision Sciences

Languages Known : Bengali, English, Hindi

Professional Software Knowledge : Excel, R, SPSS,

Hobbies : Travelling, Poetry

Brief Profile  

  • 3+ years of Postdoctoral work at Umea University, Sweden and Helsinki University of Technology (Aalto University), Finland.
  • Ph.D. in Statistics from University of Calcutta, Kolkata, India, awarded on 09.05.2008.
    • Title of the Thesis: “Some Partially Sequential Nonparametric Tests and Their Applications.” The thesis consists of Six Chapters including an Introduction.
    • The work leads to seven journal articles which are published in reputed Elsevier/Springer Taylor and Francis Groups’ Journals: (Indexed in MathSciNet and/or Thompson Reuter’s Journal Citation Reports.)
  • M.Sc. in Statistics from the University of Calcutta, in 2002 with First Class.
    • Specializations in Master Degree: Multivariate Analysis, Econometrics and Reliability.
  • B.Sc. in Statistics (Hons.) from prestigious St. Xavier’s College, Kolkata, under the University of Calcutta, in 1999 with First Class.
    • With Mathematics, Economics and English as Minor Subjects - (Secured First Division Including Minors).

Total Experience (in months)
 150 (Post Ph.D.) (as on 25-NOV-22)

Experience Detail  

Employment History

Full-Time Faculty Positions

Jul 2020– Current:

Professor (Full); Production, Operations and Decision Sciences Area

XLRI – Xavier School of Management, Jamshedpur; India

Aug 2014– Jun 2020:

Associate Professor; Production, Operations and Decision Sciences Area

XLRI – Xavier School of Management, Jamshedpur; India

Jan 2013 – Aug 2014:

Assistant Professor; Operations Management, Quantitative Methods and Information Systems Area, Indian Institute of Management Udaipur, India.

Dec 2011 – Dec 2012:

Assistant Professor; Department of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India.

Aug 2010 – Dec 2011:

Researcher (Level-5); Department of Mathematics and Systems Analysis,

Aalto University, Espoo, Province of Southern Finland, Finland.

Oct 2008 – Aug 2010:

Postdoctoral Fellow; Department of Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics,

Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden.

 

Visiting Researcher and Faculty Positions                                                    

Jan 2016 – Feb 2016:

 

Visiting Research Fellow; Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong.

Nov 2013 – Jan 2014:

Visiting Research Fellow; Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong.

Nov 2012 – Dec 2012:

Visiting Faculty; Department of Mathematics and Systems Analysis, Aalto University, Espoo, Province of Southern Finland, Finland.

Jun 2012 – Jul 2012:

Visiting Research Fellow; Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management; City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong.

August- 2011:

Visiting Researcher; Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Memorial University, St. Johns, Newfoundland, Canada.

 

Full-time Doctoral Fellowship

Jan 2005 – Sep 2008:

CSIR Senior Research Fellow; Department of Statistics, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, India.

Jan 2003 – Dec 2004:

<>CSIR Junior Research Fellow; Department of Statistics, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, India.

 

Prof. Amitava Mukherjee

Prof. Amitava Mukherjee

Achievements and Research Interest/Area of Research Interests

Academic Distinction (Awards and Scholarships)

  1. Industrial Consultancy & Sponsored Research Funding under NFSG scheme, IIT Madras (INR: Rs. 12,00,000)
  2. Travel Support from Ministry of Statistics, Planning and Information for travelling to Jerusalem, Israel to attend 6th IWAP-2012.
  3. Travel Support from Department of Science and Technology, Government of India, for travelling to San Diego, USA to attend Joint Statistical Meetings, 2012.
  4. Received travel grant from the Wallenberg foundation in Sweden for participation in Fifth International workshop on Applied Probability, on Madrid, Spain, during 05.07.2010 to 08.07.2010.
  5. Received travel grant from the Wallenberg foundation in Sweden for participation in three International Conferences in India during 28.12.2009 to 13.01.2010.
  6. Selected for Umea University-Washington University Postdoctoral Exchange Programme for 2009-10 and offered an external grant of about SEK 17000.
  7. U.S. Nair Young Statistician Award conferred by Indian Society for Probability and Statistics in January 2010.
  8. Received travel award from the Wallenberg foundation in Sweden for participation as an invited speaker at the second International Workshop in Sequential Methodologies (IWSM) at the University of Technology of Troyes in France, June 15-17, 2009.
  9. Second Prize in National Meet of Research Scholars in Mathematical Sciences Held in Indian Institute of Technology at Kanpur, India during October-November 2007.
  10. Secured first position in the merit panel published By West Bengal College Service Commission in 2006 and subsequently offered to join as a lecturer in Basanti Devi College, Kolkata, India.
  11. Qualified UGC-CSIR JRF-NET in India (Ranked within top twenty percent among the list of successful candidates twice in succession).
  12. Awarded National Scholarship for Meritorious Performance in Secondary Examination in 1994.
  13. Awarded National Scholarship for Meritorious Performance in Higher Secondary Examination in 1996.

Adminstrative Distinction

Other Achievements

Area of RESEARCH INTERESTS

  • Statistical Process Monitoring and Control 
  • Monitoring and Assessment of Service Quality  
  • Sequential Methodologies 
  • Inferences on Higher Dimensions
  • Nonparametric Inference
  • Applications of Statistics in Business and Industry
  • Geostatistics

Faculty Development Programs Attended

Courses Taught

In XLRI-Xavier School of Management

  • Machine Learning
  • Demand and Business Forecasting (scheduled in September-December 2022)
  • Advanced Techniques for Business Data Analysis (3-year Part-Time Post Graduate Business Management Programme)
  • Quantitative Method I (2-year Full-Time Post Graduate Business Management Programme)
  • Quantitative Method II (2-year Full-Time Post Graduate Business Management Programme)
  • Quantitative Techniques for Managerial Decisions (General Management Programme and Weekend Post Graduate Diploma Programme)
  • Quantitative Techniques for Human Resource Management (2-year Full-Time Post Graduate Human Resource Management Programme)
  • Quantitative Method II (for PGDM-Part Time Programme)
  • Quantitative Techniques (GLOBAL MBA programme)
  • Analytical Techniques in Research Methods (Executive Fellow Programme in Management)
  • Basic Statistics (Executive Fellow Programme in Management)
  • Also taught some Probability and Statistics courses through Virtual Interactive Learning mode via online platforms
  • Quantitative Techniques for Decisions Making (Post Graduate Certification in Business Management programme)

 

In Other Institutes

  • Research Methodology: Delivered an invited session in the City University of Hong Kong in November 2013 for Ph.D. students
  • Statistics for Management: Taught the entire course in the postgraduate programme at the Indian Institute of Management Udaipur, India, July - September 2013.
  • Statistical Inference and Quality Control: Taught the entire course in Aalto University, School of Science, November – December 2012.
  • Applied Statistics: Taught the entire one-semester course for Postgraduate and M.Tech Students in IIT Madras during 2012 (Spring Semester).
  • Probability Theory: Taught the entire one-semester course for Postgraduate Students in IIT Madras during 2012 (Spring Semester)..
  • The first course in Statistics and Probability: Taught the entire one-semester course for Master’s students at Aalto University, School of Science during spring 2011.

 

Other Teaching Assignments during the Ph.D. programme

  • Guest Lecturer (Honorary): Department of Statistics, Maulana Azad College (Govt.), Kolkata, from November 2002 to January 2005. - Subjects taught at Under Graduate level: Statistical Inference, Demand Analysis, Population Statistics and Economic Statistics.
  • Teaching Assistant: Department of Geology, University of Calcutta, for two consecutive batches during 2005-06. - Subjects taught at Post Graduate level: Geomathematics.

 

Consultancy Undertaken

XLRI-Xavier School of Management:

 

  1. In-Company Programme for Magma group of companies on "Introduction to Business Analytics with R" during September 30 - October 3, 2015.
  2. In-Company Programme for Magma group of companies on "R Training and Consultancy" during December 21 - 2 3, 2015.

 

Faculty Development Programme (FDP):

 

  1. Invited to conduct a programme on Theory of Estimations and Applications in Control Charts on April 25, 2012 at Sree Sastha Institute of Engineering and Technology; Chembarambakkam, Chennai, India.

 

In-Company Programs

INTELLECTUAL CONTRIBUTIONS (PUBLICATIONS)

Journal Articles-Refereed

( The latest 47 out of 81 publications in Scopus/Web of Science)

  1. Yu, D., Mukherjee, A., Li, J., Jin, L., Wen, K., & Zhang, J. (2022). Performance of the Shiryaev-Roberts type scheme in comparison to the CUSUM and EWMA schemes in monitoring Weibull scale parameter based on Type I censored data. Quality and Reliability Engineering International. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/qre.3125
  2. Li, J., Yu, D., Song, Z., Mukherjee, A., Chen, R., & Zhang, J. (2022). Comparisons of some memory-type control chart for monitoring Weibull distributed time between events and some new results. Quality and Reliability Engineering International. https://doi.org/10.1002/qre.3154
  3. Liang, W., Mukherjee, A., Xiang, D., & Xu, Z. (2022). A new nonparametric adaptive EWMA procedure for monitoring location and scale shifts via weighted Cucconi statistic. Computers & Industrial Engineering, 170, 108321.
  4. Mukherjee, A., Kössler, W., & Marozzi, M. (2022). A distribution-free procedure for testing versatile alternative in medical multisample comparison studies. Statistics in Medicine. 41( 16): 2978– 3002. DOI:10.1002/sim.9397
  5. Mukherjee, A., & Murakami, H. (2022). Multivariate Kruskal–Wallis tests based on principal component score and latent source of independent component analysis. Australian & New Zealand Journal of Statistics. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/anzs.12371
  6. Chong, Z. L., Mukherjee, A., & Marozzi, M. (2022). Some two-sample tests for simultaneously comparing both parameters of the shifted exponential models. Communications in Statistics-Theory and Methods, 1-33. DOI: 10.1080/03610926.2022.2085875
  7. Suzuki, A., Murakami, H., & Mukherjee, A. (2021). Distribution-free Phase-I scheme for location, scale and skewness shifts with an application in monitoring customers` waiting time. Journal of Applied Statistics, 1-21. (Available Online, Vol Awaited)
  8. Mukherjee, A., & Murakami, H. (2022). (accepted). Multivariate Kruskal-Wallis tests based on principal component score and latent source of independent component analysis. Australian & New Zealand Journal of Statistics. (To appear).
  9. Adegoke, N. A., Ajadi, J. O., Mukherjee, A., & Abbasi, S. A. (2022). Nonparametric multivariate covariance chart for monitoring individual observations. Computers & Industrial Engineering167, 108025.
  10. Mukherjee, A., Li, Q., & Song, Z. (2022). An assessment of the effect of using different mappings and Minkowski distances in joint monitoring of the time-between-event processes. Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics404, 113776.
  11. Xie, F., Mukherjee, A., Sun, J., Tang, A., & Hu, X. (2022). A synthetic multivariate exponentially weighted moving average scheme for monitoring of bivariate Gamma distributed processes. Quality and Reliability Engineering International38(2), 848-876.
  12. Saha, S., Mukherjee, A., & Khoo, M. B. (2022). Two CUSUM schemes for simultaneous monitoring of unknown parameters of a shifted exponential process and its application in monitoring of call durations in telemarketing. Quality Technology & Quantitative Management19(1), 113-137.
  13. Mukherjee, A., & Marozzi, M. (2021). Nonparametric Phase-II control charts for monitoring high-dimensional processes with unknown parameters. Journal of Quality Technology54(1), 44-64.
  14. Mukherjee, A., Qiu, P., & Marozzi, M. (2021). A comprehensive distribution-free scheme for tri-aspect surveillance of complex processes. Applied Stochastic Models in Business and Industry, 37(6), 1157-1181.
  15. Chan, K. M., Mukherjee, A., Chong, Z. L., & Lee, H. C. (2021). Distribtion-free double exponentially and homogeneously weighted moving average Lepage schemes with an application in monitoring exit rate. Computers & Industrial Engineering161, 107370.
  16. Mukherjee, A., Kössler, W., & Murakami, H. (2021). Two new distribution-free two-sample tests for versatile alternative. Statistics, 55(5), 1123-1153.
  17. Li, C., & Mukherjee, A. (2021). Two economically optimized nonparametric schemes for monitoring process variability. Quality and Reliability Engineering International37(5), 1939-1955.
  18. Li, Q., Mukherjee, A., Song, Z., and Zhang, J. (2021). Phase-II monitoring of exponentially distributed process based on Type-II censored data for possible shift in location-scale. Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics, 389:113315.
  19. Xiang, D., Mukherjee, A., Hu, Z., & Li, W. (2021). Online anomaly detection of profiles with varying coefficients via functional mixed effects modelling. Applied Mathematical Modelling93, 467-484.
  20. Song, Z., Mukherjee, A., Ma, N., & Zhang, J. (2021). A class of new nonparametric circular-grid charts for signal classification. Quality and Reliability Engineering International37(6), 2738-2759.
  21. Song, Z., Mukherjee, A., and Zhang, J. (2021). Some robust approaches based on copula for monitoring bivariate processes and component-wise assessment. European Journal of Operational Research, 289(1):177–196.
  22. Chong, Z. L., Mukherjee, A., & Marozzi, M. (2021). Simultaneous monitoring of origin and scale of a shifted exponential process with unknown and estimated parameters. Quality and Reliability Engineering International, 37(1), 242-261.
  23. Chong, Z. L., Huang, S., Mukherjee, A., and Yang, J. (2020). Performance comparisons of distribution-free Shewhart-type Lepage and Cucconi schemes in monitoring complex process distributions. Transactions of the Institute of Measurement and Control, 42(14):2787– 2811.
  24. Chong, Z., Mukherjee, A., and Khoo, M. B. (2020). Some simplified Shewhart-type distribution-free joint monitoring schemes and its application in monitoring drinking water turbidity. Quality Engineering, 32(1):91–110.
  25. Haridy, S., Shamsuzzaman, M., Alsyouf, I., and Mukherjee, A. (2020). An improved design of exponentially weighted moving average scheme for monitoring attributes. International Journal of Production Research, 58(3):931–946.
  26. Kössler, W. and Mukherjee, A. (2020). Distribution-free simultaneous tests for location–scale and Lehmann alternative in two-sample problem. Biometrical Journal, 62(1):99–123.
  27. Li, C., Mukherjee, A., and Marozzi, M. (2020). A new distribution-free phase-i procedure for bi-aspect monitoring based on the multi-sample Cucconi statistic. Computers & Industrial Engineering, 149:106760.
  28. Malela-Majika, J., Rapoo, E., Mukherjee, A., and Graham, M. A. (2020). Distribution-free precedence schemes with a generalized runs-rule for monitoring unknown location. Communications in Statistics-Theory and Methods, 49(20):4996–5027.
  29. Marozzi, M., Mukherjee, A., and Kalina, J. (2020). Interpoint distance tests for high-dimensional comparison studies. Journal of Applied Statistics, 47(4):653–665.
  30. Sanusi, R. A., Chong, Z. L., Mukherjee, A., and Xie, M. (2020). Distribution-free hybrid schemes for process surveillance with application in monitoring chlorine content of water. Chemometrics and Intelligent Laboratory Systems, 206:104099.
  31. Song, Z., Mukherjee, A., and Zhang, J. (2020). An efficient approach of designing distribution-free exponentially weighted moving average schemes with dynamic fast initial response for joint monitoring of location and scale. Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation, 90(13):2329–2353.
  32. Song, Z., Mukherjee, A., & Tao, G. (2020). A class of distribution-free one-sided Cucconi schemes for joint surveillance of location and scale parameters and their application in monitoring cab services. Computers & Industrial Engineering148, 106625.
  33. Gong, M. and Mukherjee, A. (2019). Design and comparison of some Shewhart-type schemes for simultaneous monitoring of Weibull parameters. Quality and Reliability Engineering International, 35(4):889–901.
  34. Li, C. and Mukherjee, A. (2019). Nonparametric cost-minimized Shewhart-type process monitoring with restricted false alarm probability. Quality and Reliability Engineering International, 35(6):1846–1865.
  35. Li, C., Mukherjee, A., and Su, Q. (2019). A distribution-free Phase-I monitoring scheme for subgroup location and scale based on the multi-sample Lepage statistic. Computers & Industrial Engineering, 129:259–273.
  36. Li, C., Mukherjee, A., Su, Q., and Xie, M. (2019). Some monitoring procedures related to asymmetry parameter of Azzalini’s skew-normal model. REVSTAT – Statistical Journal, 17(1):1–24.
  37. Mukherjee, A., Chong, Z. L., and Khoo, M. B. (2019). Comparisons of some distribution-free CUSUM and EWMA schemes and their applications in monitoring impurity in mining process flotation. Computers & Industrial Engineering, 137:106059.
  38. Mukherjee, A., Chong, Z. L., and Marozzi, M. (2019). Exact simultaneous location-scale tests for two shifted exponential samples. Kybernetika, 55(6):943–960.
  39. Mukherjee, A. and Marozzi, M. (2019). A class of percentile modified Lepage-type tests. Metrika, 82(6):657–689.
  40. Mukherjee, A. and Rakitzis, A. C. (2019). Some simultaneous progressive monitoring schemes for the two parameters of a zero-inflated Poisson process under unknown shifts. Journal of Quality Technology, 51(3):257–283.
  41. Sanusi, R. A. and Mukherjee, A. (2019). A combination of max-type and distance-based schemes for simultaneous monitoring of time between events and event magnitudes. Quality and Reliability Engineering International, 35(1):368–384.
  42. Sanusi, R. A., Mukherjee, A., and Xie, M. (2019). A comparative study of some EWMA schemes for simultaneous monitoring of mean and variance of a Gaussian process. Computers & Industrial Engineering, 135:426–439.
  43. Song, Z., Mukherjee, A., Liu, Y., and Zhang, J. (2019). Optimizing joint location-scale monitoring-an adaptive distribution-free approach with minimal loss of information. European Journal of Operational Research, 274(3):1019–1036.
  44. Chong, Z. L., Mukherjee, A., and Khoo, M. B. (2018). Some distribution-free Lepage-type schemes for simultaneous monitoring of one-sided shifts in location and scale. Computers & Industrial Engineering, 115:653–669.
  45. Huang, S., Mukherjee, A., and Yang, J. (2018). Two CUSUM schemes for simultaneous monitoring of parameters of a shifted exponential time to events. Quality and Reliability Engineering International, 34(6):1158–1173.
  46. Mukherjee, A., Cheng, Y., and Gong, M. (2018). A new nonparametric scheme for simultaneous monitoring of bivariate processes and its application in monitoring service quality. Quality Technology & Quantitative Management, 15(1):143–156.
  47. Mukherjee, A. and Sen, R. (2018). Optimal design of Shewhart–Lepage type schemes and its application in monitoring service quality. European Journal of Operational Research, 266:157–167.

Published Research Monographs

Scholarly Books

Chapters in Scholarly books

Book Chapter:

  1. Song, Z., Mukherjee, A., Marozzi, M., & Zhang, J. (2020). A class of distribution-free exponentially weighted moving average schemes for joint monitoring of location and scale parameters. In ‘Distribution-Free Methods for Statistical Process Monitoring and Control’ (pp. 183-217). Springer, Cham.

Conference Proceedings-Refereed

  1. Yuan Cheng, Amitava Mukherjee: One Hotelling T2 chart based on transformed data for simultaneous monitoring the frequency and magnitude of an event. IEEM2014; 12/201    
  2. Chenglong Li, Amitava Mukherjee, Qin Su, Min Xie: Economic Design of a Nonparametric Control Chart for Shift in Location. 5th International Asia Conference on Industrial Engineering and Management Innovation; 07/201

Paper Presentations-Refereed

Conferences & Talks:

 

Plenary talk

  • XI Workshop on Statistics, Mathematics and Computing (WSMC 11), Portalegre, Portugal, 10-12 July 2017.

 

Invited talks

 

  • Invited talk on “The Panhellenic Statistics Conference”; Organized by the Greek Statistical Institute (GSI), Athens, Greece. May, 19 to 22, 2022.
  • Invited talk on 63rd World Statistics Congress of the International Statistical Institute (ISI) held Virtually, Malaysia, during 11-16 July 2021.
  • 62nd World Statistics Congress of the International Statistical Institute (ISI) held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, during August 18-23, 2019.
  • Symposium on Data Science and Statistics (SDSS) held in Reston, Virginia, USA, May 16-19, 2018.
  • Spring Meeting on Design of experiments for quality of products and sustainability in agri-food systems in Florence, Italy, June 4-6, 2018.
  • International Statistical Institute’s Regional Statistics Conference (RSC) in Bali, Indonesia, March 21-March 24, 2017.
  • 61st World Statistics Congress of the International Statistical Institute (ISI) held in Marrakesh, Morocco, July 16-21, 2017.
  • International Workshop on Engineering Statistics” at East China Normal University on December 18, 2016
  • Centro de Estatística e Aplicações da Universidade de Lisboa (CEAUL), University of Lisbon, Portugal, June 3, 2016.
  • The University of Porto, Portugal on May 30, 2016.
  • X Workshop on Statistics, Mathematics and Computation (WSMC10) and V Portuguese-Polish Workshop on Biometry (PPWBS5), Instituto Politécnico de Tomar, Tomar, Portugal, May 26-28, 2016.
  • Seventh International Workshop on Applied Probability, in Antalya, Turkey, June 16-19, 2014.
  • Joint Statistical Meeting, topic contributed session in the "Section on Quality and Productivity”, Boston, USA, during August 2-7, 2014.
  • Regional Statistics Conference; International Statistical Institute, the session on Statistical Process Control, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, November 16-19, 2014.
  • Joint Statistical Meeting, topic contributed session in the "Section on Quality and Productivity”, Montreal, Canada, August 3-8, 2013.
  • International Indian Statistical Association (IISA)’s International Conference on Statistics Science and society: New Challenges and Opportunities, Chennai, India, January 2-5, 2013.
  • System Engineering and Engineering Management, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong, July 6, 2012.
  • Joint Statistical Meeting, topic contributed session in the "Section on Quality and Productivity”, San Diego, USA, July 28-Aug 2, 2012.
  • International Conference on Statistics and Information Analytics, Post Graduate Department of Statistics, Loyola College; Chennai, India, August 23, 2012.
  • Sixth International Workshop on Applied Probability, a session on Sequential Methodologies, Jerusalem, Israel, during June 11-14, 2012.
  • Joint Statistical Meetings, Miami Beach, Florida, USA, July 30-August 4, 2011.
  • 58th World Statistics Congress (WSC), International Statistical Institute (ISI), Dublin, Ireland, August 21-26, 2011.
  • International Sri Lankan Statistical Conference: Statistical Concepts and Methods for the Modern world, Jointly organized by The Institute of Applied Statistics, Sri Lanka (IASSL); School of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Sydney, Australia and Department of Statistics, The University of Colombo, Sri Lanka., Waters Edge, Colombo, Sri Lanka, December 28 - 30, 2011.
  • International Conference on Devement and Applications of Statistics in Emerging Areas of Science & Technology, Department of Statistics, University of Jammu, India, December 8-10, 2010.
  • University of Tampere, Finland, November 24, 2010.
  • University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, USA, March 24, 2010.
  • University of Connecticut, Storrs, USA, March 5, 2010.
  • 5th International Workshop on Applied Probability (IWAP), Madrid, Spain, July 5-8, 2010.
  • 2nd International Workshop on Sequential Methodologies” in Troyes, France, June 15-17, 2009.

 

Contributory Talks

 

·       ISNPS2022 - International Symposium On Nonparametric Statistics June 20-24, 2022; Paphos, Cyprus

·       ICSTA’21, 4th International Conference on Statistics: Theory and Applications, July 28, 2022 – July 30, 2022; Prague, Czech Republic

·       International Statistical Institute’s Regional Statistics Conference (RSC) in Bali, Indonesia, during March 21-March 24, 2017.

·       The 10th  International Chinese Statistical Association (ICSA)’s  International Conference on Global Growth of Modern Statistics in the 21st Century” during Dec 19-22, 2016; in Shanghai, China.

·       12th  Applied Statistics 2015, an International Conference, held in Ribno (Bled), Slovenia, during September 20 - 23, 2015.

·       Aalto Statistics Seminar Series of Fall-2010 on September 27 2010.

·       Aalto Statistics Seminar Series of Fall-2010 on September 20, 2010.

·       Joint seminar of the Estonian Doctoral School in Mathematics and Statistics and Finnish Doctoral Programme in Stochastics and Statistics -  University of Tartu, Estonia, September 09-12, 2010.

·       International Conference on Statistics and Information Analytics, Loyola College Chennai, India during January 11-13, 2010.

·       International Conference in conjunction with Joint Meeting of International Indian Statistical Association and Indian Society for Probability and Statistics (IISA- ISPS), Andhra University, India, January 4-8, 2010.

·       Joint Statistical Seminar, Umeå University, Sweden, December 1, 2009.

·       Seventh International Triennial Calcutta Symposium on Probability and Statistics, the Department of Statistics, University of Calcutta and Calcutta Statistical Association, December 28-31, 2009.

·       Joint Statistical Seminar, Umeå University, October 14, 2008.

·       Sixth International Symposium on Optimization and Statistics, Department of Statistics, Aligarh Muslim University, UP, India, December 29-31, 2008.

·       International Conference on Statistics - part of Sesquicentennial Celebration of University of Mumbai, Department of Statistics, University of Mumbai, India, May 31-June 2, 2007.

·       National Meet of Research Scholars in Mathematical Sciences; Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India. October 30- November 03, 2007.

·       Sixth International Triennial Calcutta Symposium on Probability and Statistics, organized jointly by the Department of Statistics, University of Calcutta, and Calcutta Statistical Association, Kolkata, India, December 29-31, 2006.

·       Golden Jubilee Conference on Recent Developments in Statistics and Probability, Department of Statistics, University of Pune, India, December 22-24, 2003.

·       Fifth International Triennial Calcutta Symposium on Probability and Statistics, organized jointly by the Department of Statistics, University of Calcutta, and Calcutta Statistical Association, Kolkata, India, December 28-31, 2003.

Text Books

Research Report

Working paper

Key note presentation

Published articles in newspapers/magazines

Cases developed for Teaching purpose

Other Professional Activities

Achievements in Professional activities

  • Team member of the IIM-Udaipur team won IBM-SUR (Shared University Research) research award on Business Analytics for financial markets in 2013.
  • S. Nair Young Statistician Award conferred by the Indian Society for Probability and Statistics in January 2010.
  • Second Prize in National Meet of Research Scholars in Mathematical Sciences Held in Indian Institute of Technology at Kanpur, India during October-November 2007.
  •  held the First Position in the Merit panel published by West Bengal College Service Commission in 2006 and was subsequently offered to join as a lecturer at Basanti Devi College, Kolkata, India.
  • Qualified UGC-CSIR JRF –NET in India (Ranked within the top twenty per cent among the list of successful candidates twice in succession)

Chairperson/Co-Chairperson in conferences

Co-ordinating/Organizing Workshop/Conferences /MDPs

  1. Invited to conduct a programme on "Theory of Estimations and Applications in Control Charts" on April 25, 2012 at Sree Sastha Institute of Engineering and Technology; Chembarambakkam, Chennai, India
  2. In-Company Programme for Magma group of companies on "Introduction to Business Analytics with R" during September 30 - October 3, 2015.                                                                            
  3. In-Company Programme for Magma group of companies on "R Training and Consultancy" during December 21 - 23, 2015.

Contribution towards Institution building/ development/ services such as Chairperson (Placement) etc

Guide/evaluator/ examiner at doctoral research level

  1. Served as an external examiner of a Ph.D. thesis titled "Semi Elliptical Exponentially Weighted Moving Average Scheme for Jointly Monitoring Process Mean and Variance" submitted to Department of Mathematics, University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka in June 2015.                                          
  2. Served as an External Examiner of Dissertation in Master Degree of University of Pretoria, South Africa during 2013-14.

Invited to deliver Keynote addresses/ speeches

Plenary talk

  • XI Workshop on Statistics, Mathematics and Computing (WSMC 11), Portalegre, Portugal, 10-12 July 2017.

Membership of Professional Bodies

  • Elected Member: International Statistical Institute (ISI),
  • Member of the International Statistical Institute’s Committee on Risk Analysis,
  • A regular member of the International Society for Business and Industrial Statistics (ISBIS), American Statistical Association (ASA), American Society for Quality (ASQ), European Network for Business and Industrial Statistics (ENBIS), American Mathematical Society (AMS)
  • Life Member of Calcutta Statistical Association (CSA), Indian Science Congress Association (ISCA), Indian Society for Probability and Statistics (ISPS), Indian Statistical Association (IISA)

Participation in Workshops/Conferences/Forums/ Meetings etc

1.Member of the Programme Committee of the Annual Conference of International Indian Statistical Association in January 2013.(Organized three invited sessions respectively on Recent trends in Sequential Analysis, Recent Trends in Reliability and Survival Analysis and Recent Trends in Statistical Inference)

2.Joint Organizer of Spring-2011 Seminar Series in Statistics and Stochastics in Aalto University, School of Science.

3.Joint Organizer of Fall-2010 Statistics Seminar Series in Aalto University, School of Science and Technology

4.Joint Organizer of World Statistics Day Celebration Programme in Aalto University, School of Science and Technology on October 20, 2010.

5.Served as member of programme sub-committee in several conferences/ seminar/ symposium held in Department of Statistics, University of Calcutta during early research career.

Professional Services such as Member/Editor of Editorial Board/ Advisory Committee etc

  • Editorial Board Membership

 

  • June 2022 – Associate Editor of “Mathematical Problems in Engineering” [Hindwai]
  • March 2018 – Associate Editor of “Sequential Analysis – Design Methods and Applications” [Taylor and Francis]
  • January 2021 – Associate Editor of “Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation” [Taylor and Francis]
  • March-2012-December 2016: Associate Editor of “Statistical Methodology” [Formerly with Elsevier]
  • Guest Editor for a special issue on “Nonparametric Statistical Process Charts” in “Quality and Reliability Engineering International” – A Wiley-Blackwell Journal: Published on February 2015 [ Vol:31; Issue:1]
  • Guest Editor for two special issues on “Advances in the Theory and Application of Statistical Process Control” to Celebrate the Quasquicentennial (125th) Birth Anniversary of the Father of Statistical Quality Control – Dr. Walter Andrew Shewhart” in “Quality Technology and Quantitative Management”: Published in October 2017/ January 2018 [Vol: 14; Issue: 4 and Vol:15; Issue:1]

Reviewer/Referee in Journals/ Conferences etc

  • Professional Services as a Reviewer: I have served as a Reviewer for more than 30 International Journals, including Applied Stochastic Models in Business and Industry. Calcutta Statistical Association Bulletin, Communications in Statistics-Simulation and Computation, Communications in Statistics-Theory and Methods, Chemometrics and Intelligent Laboratory Systems, Computational Statistics, Computers and Industrial Engineering, Environmental and Ecological Statistics, European Journal of Operational Research, IEEE Access, IEEE Transactions on Reliability International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology, International Journal of Production Research, International Journal of Water Resources and Environmental Engineering, Iranian Journal of Science and Technology, Journal of Applied Statistics, Journal of Indian Society of Agricultural Statistics, Journal of Quality Technology, Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation, Journal of Nonparametric Statistics, Journal of Testing and Evaluation, Management and Labour Studies, Mathematical Reviews, Metrika, Pakistan Journal of Statistics, Quality and Reliability Engineering International, Quality Technology and Quantitative Management, Sankhya B, Saudi Medical Journal, Scientia Iranica, Sedimentology, Sequential Analysis -Design, Methods and Applications, Statistical Methodology, Statistics, Statistics and Probability Letters, Technometrics, Total Quality Management and Business Excellence, Transactions of the Institute of Measurement & Control, Water Resources Research, among others.

 

Visiting Faculty

Academic Visits

 

  • May 2018: Department Quality, Logistics and Industrial Organization, University of Nantes, University Institute of Technology of Nantes, France. (Visited Prof. Philippe Castagliola)
  • Feb 2018: Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong. (Visited Prof. Min Xie)
  • July 2017: Department of Computer Science, Humboldt University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany. (Visited Prof. Wolfgang Kössler)
  • July 2017: Centre for Mathematics and Application, University Nova de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal. (Visited Prof. Carlos M. A. Coelho)
  • Jan 2017: City University of Hong Kong, Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management Kowloon, Hong Kong. (Visited Prof. Min Xie)
  • Aug 2016: City University of Hong Kong, Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management, Kowloon, Hong Kong. (Visited Prof. Min Xie)
  • June 2016: Centro de Estatística e Aplicações da Universidade de Lisboa (CEAUL), University of Lisbon, Portugal (Visited to: Prof. Ivette Maria Gomes)
  • May 2016: University of Porto, Faculty of Economics, Porto, Portugal. (Visited: Dr. Fernanda Otília Figueiredo)
  • June 2015: Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Engineering, University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka (Visited Prof. T. S. G. Peiris)
  • Feb 2013: Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, India. (Visited Professor Tathagata Bandyopadhyay)
  • July 2011: Department of Information Systems, Statistics and Management Science, Culverhouse College of Commerce, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, USA (Visited Prof. Subha Chakraborti)
  • Mar 2010: Department of Statistics, University of Alabama, Storrs, USA (Visited Prof. Nitis Mukhopadhyay)
  • Mar 2010: Department of Information Systems, Statistics and Management Science, Culverhouse College of Commerce, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, USA (Visited Prof. Subha Chakraborti)
  • Mar 2010: Department of Mathematics, University of Washington at St. Louis, USA (Visited Prof. Jimin Ding)

 

 

Research Project Undertaken