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
 
Honors Received
               Fellow, American Statistical Association; elected 2011.
 
Editorial Work
               2007- present:  Associate Editor, Communications in Statistics
 
Professional Activities
Vice President, Louisiana Chapter of the American Statistical Association, 2010-2011
President, Louisiana Chapter of the American Statistical Association,  2011-2012
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 - 2004 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 - 1998 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-PI:  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- PI: 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, 2009.
CO-PI:  Statistical Methodology for Industrial Hygiene: Detection Limits, Reference Limits and Measurement Accuracy: $1,394,064. NIH grant funded by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH),
September 1, 2010 - August 31, 2014.
 
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.