Education
Ph.D.(Statistics),
March 1985, Indian Institute of Technology-Kanpur, India
M.Sc (Statistics),
May 1978, Madras University, India
B.Sc (Statistics),
May 1976, Madras University, India
Professional Experience
2001-
Professor, Department of
Mathematics, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
1995-01 Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics,
University of Louisiana at Lafayette
1992-95 Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics,
University Louisiana at Lafayette
1991-92 Visiting Assistant Professor, Dept of Math and
Statistics, University of South Alabama
1988-91 Visiting Assistant Professor, Dept of Statistics,
Temple University
1986-88 Visiting Lecturer, Dept of Math and Statistics,
Bowling Green State University
1984-86 Research Associate, Indian Statistical Institute,
New Delhi, India
1981-84 Teaching Assistant, Indian Institute of Technology,
Kanpur, India
Professional Activities
Chapter
Representative, Louisiana Chapter of the American Statistical Association,
2000-2003
Member, American
Statistical Association
Vice President,
Louisiana Chapter of the American Statistical Association, 1995-96
President,
Louisiana Chapter of the American Statistical Association, 1996-97
Treasurer,
Louisiana Chapter of the American Statistical Association, 1997-98
Technical Skills
General
skills in statistical computing. Specific expertise and interest in:
Numerical
computations, statistical simulation and Monte-Carlo method
Data analysis using
SAS and MINITAB. PC, UNIX and MVS operating systems.
Programming
language: C, Visual C++, Fortran 77 and 95
Statistical
Software: Minitab, S plus, JMP, SYSTAT, SAS, IMSL
Text Formatting:
LaTex, MS Word
Other Software: MS
Visual Studio, RoboHelp Office 2000
Major Fields of Interest
Meta Analysis,
Calibration, Tolerance Region, Multivariate Statistical Inference,
Statistical Methods
for Occupational Safety and Health
Collaborators
1995
- present Dr. Thomas Callendar and Dr. Elaine Mitran;
Med-Health Pvt. Ltd.,
Lafayette, LA.
Modeling exposure data and assessing exposure risks
Summer
1997 Mitchell Pinckard, Noble
Drilling, Lafayette, LA. Modeling drilling
data to optimize
bit rate of penetration
1997
- present Jackson Barnitz, Safety
Management Service, Inc., Lafayette, LA.
Analyzing
occupational exposure data
1996
- present Thomas Mathew, University of Maryland - Baltimore
County
Campus, Developing
Statistical methods to analyze exposure data.
Research Grants
Summer Research Award;
University of Louisiana at Lafayette; Summer 1993; $3,900.
Summer Research Award; University of Louisiana at Lafayette; Summer
1994; $3,900.
Co-Principal
Investigator: Statistical Problems in Occupational Safety and
Health, $400, 453. NIH grant funded by
the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), May 1, 2000
- April 30, 2004.
Co- Principal Investigator: Statistical Methodologies for Exposure Assessment,
$869, 409. NIH
grant funded by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
(NIOSH), May 1, 2005 - April 29, 2008.
Presentations and Invited
Lectures
1. Optimal integration of two or three PPS surveys with
common sample size n > 1. Statistical Conference, 1985, Banaras Hindu
University, India.
2.
Orthogonal minimax estimators
of normal covariance matrix. Invited Lecture. Indian Statistical Institute, New
Delhi, March 1984.
3.
Estimation of normal
covariance matrix with incomplete data. Invited Lecture. Indian Statistical
Institute, New Delhi, March 1984.
4.
Decision theoretic results on
covariance estimation. Colloquium Presentation, Department of Mathematics and
Statistics, Bowling Green State University, January, 1987.
5.
Estimation of normal
covariance and precision matrices. Colloquium Presentation, Department of
Statistics, Temple University, Philadelphia, January, 1991.
6.
Simultaneous estimation of
independent normal mean vectors with unknown covariance matrices. Joint
Statistical Meetings, 1991, Atlanta, Georgia.
7.
On a shrinkage estimator of a normal
common mean vector. Dept of Mathematics and Statistics, University of South
Alabama, Mobile, Alabama, October, 1991.
8.
Estimation of common mean of
several normal populations. Colloquium Presentation, Dept of Experimental
Statistics, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, February 1993.
9.
Unbiased equivariant
estimation of common normal mean vector with one observation from each
population. Joint Statistical Meetings, 1993, San Francisco, California.
10.
Combining independent studies
in a calibration problem. Dept of Mathematics and Statistics, University of
South Alabama, Mobile, February 16, 1995.
11.
Combining independent studies
in a calibration problem. Dept of Mathematics and Statistics, University of
West Florida, Pensacola, February 17,1995.
12.
Combining independent studies
in a calibration problem. Joint Statistical Meetings, 1995, Orlando, Florida.
13.
Inferences on normal mean
vector based on incomplete data. Joint Statistical Meetings, 1996, Chicago,
Illinois.
14.
On computing tolerance factors
for a multivariate normal population. Dept of Mathematics and Statistics,
University of Maryland - Baltimore County, April 17, 1998. Louisiana Chapter of
ASA, April 1999.
15. Inference on univariate-mutivariate calibration.
JSM-IISA, December 30, 2000 - January 3, 2001, New Delhi, India.
16. Inference on Stress-Strength Reliability: The Normal
Case. International Conference on Statistics in Industry and Business, Cochin,
India, Jan 2 - 4, 2003.
17. Inference on Stress-Strength Reliability: The Normal
Case. Conference on Ranking & Selection, Multiple Comparisons, Reliability
and Their Applications, Chennai, India, Dec 28 – 30, 2002.