UNIVERSITY OF CALCUTTA
ACADEMIC DEPARTMENT
FACULTY ACADEMIC PROFILE/ CV
1. Full name of the faculty member: SUGATA SEN ROY
2. Designation : PROFESSOR
3. Specialisation : STATISTICS
4. Passport size photograph :
5. Contact information : DEPARTMENT OF STATISTICS,
UNIVERSITY OF CALCUTTA
35, BALLYGUNGE CIRCULAR ROAD,
KOLKATA 700019.
e-mail : [email protected]
[email protected]
6. Academic qualifications : Ph.D. in STATISTICS
College/ university from which the degree was Abbreviation of the degree
obtained
Calcutta University Ph.D. in Statistics (1993)
Calcutta University M.Sc. in Statistics (1983)
Presidency College B.Sc. with Statistics Honours (1981)
7. Positions held/ holding:
Department of Statistics, University of Calcutta : Lecturer (1989-1999), Reader (1999-2007),
Professor (2007- till date)
Visiting / Guest :
1. Presidency College : Visiting Professor (1996-2000)
2. Indian Statistical Institute : Visiting Professor (2000, Jan- June)
3. University of Nebraska, Lincoln, USA : Visiting Professor (2000-2001)
4. Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta : Visiting Professor (2001,Sept-Dec)
5. Department of Economics, University of Calcutta : Guest Professor (1999-2013)
6. Monash University, Melbourbe, Australia : Visiting Professor 2007
8. Research interests : Time Series Analysis, Regression Analysis, Econometrics,
Survival Analysis, Development Statistics, Functional data Analysis
9. Research guidance:
Number of researchers awarded Ph.D degrees : 4
Number of researchers pursuing Ph.D : 3
10. Projects:
Completed projects :
e-pathsala, a UGC project to develop a post-graduate level e-course in Statistics (2014-
16).
ICMR project in collaboration with Sri Ramchandra University, Chennai on Innovative
statistical techniques for construction of exposure metrics and quantification of the
effects of exposure to ambient air pollution on health, (2011–2014).
Indian/ South African Inter-Governmental Science & Technologiy Cooperation
Programme under DST on Nanomedicine as a biomedical intervention against Acute
Cardiac Syndrome and associated statistical models, (2011-14).
Project of the ICMR Task Force on Climate & Respiratory Health entitled
Meteorological changes and respiratory health, (2012-15).
Project with Cytel Inc.Software for designing and developing algorithms for adaptive
clinical trials, for the period, (2012-14).
Project on Education, Human Capital and Urban Employment in West Bengal: Emerging
Trends and Future Prospects, with the Economics Department, Calcutta University,
(2007-09).
Consultant for Datainfocom (Canada) (2007) for a project related to the studying of
various parameters that govern and determine the performance of BPO centers.
Consultant for Sri Ramachandra Medical College, Chennai for a HEI (Boston) project
(2004-07) on the effect of environmental pollution on mortality in Chennai.
Consultant in a UGC project (2002-03) for contingency valuation of the heritage sites in
and around Calcutta. Involved in the analysis of data which were primarily categorical by
nature.
USAID project (1999 - 2000) for development of manual for conducting a
comprehensive situation analysis into the demand, supply and management of micro-
nutrient supplements, anti-helminths and anti-malarials.
NCERT project (1996-97) for studying the effectiveness of the adult literacy programme
in West Bengal.
CMDA project under a British Government funding (1992-93) on the requirements in the
various slum areas of Calcutta for allocation of development funds.
Current projects :
UGC-MOOCs (SWAYAM) project for development of e-content for PG Courses in
Statistics
11. Select list of publications:
A copula-based approach for estimating the survival functions of two alternating
recurrent events (with M. Chatterjee), Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation
(2018), 88(16), 3098-3115, DOI 10.1080/00949655.2018.1499741.
Estimating the hazard functions of two alternating recurrent events in the presence of
covariates (with M. Chatterjee), Advances in Statistical Analysis (2018), 102(2), 289-304,
DOI 10.1007/s10182-017-0316-1.
Deletion Diagnostics for detection of influential observations from a Generalised Linear
Mixed Model (with B.Ganguli, M.Naskar, E.J.Malloy & E.A.Eisen) : accepted for
publication in Statistics in Medicine, (2016).
Diagnostics for a Multivariate Regression Model with Autocorrelated Errors (with
S.Guria) : Journal of Statistical Theory and Applications (2016), 15, 4, 424-433.
Measuring Visible Underemployment (with S.Chakraborty) : Journal of Economic and
Social Measurement, (2016), 41, 85–101, DOI 10.3233/JEM-160426.
Estimating the Hazard Functions of two Alternating occurring Recurrent Events : (with
M. Chatterjee) : Journal of Applied Statistics, (2015), 42, 7, 1547-1555, DOI :
10.1080/02664763.2014. 1001329.
Diarrhoeal Health Risks Attributable to Water-Borne-Pathogens in Arsenic-Mitigated
Drinking Water in West Bengal are Largely Independent of the Microbiological Quality
of the Supplied Water (with D. Mondal, B. Ganguli, B. Halder, N. Banerjee, M. Banerjee,
M. Samanta, A. K. Giri and D. A. Polya : Water (2014), 6, 1100-1117; DOI :
10.3390/w6041100.
A spatially disaggregated time series analysis of the short-term effects of particulate
matter exposure on mortality in Chennai, India (with K. Balakrishnan, B. Ganguli, S.
Ghosh, S. Sambandam, A. Chatterjee) : Air Quality, Atmosphere and Health, (2013), 6, 1,
111-121.
Rate of Convergence in the CLT for parameter estimation in a causal, invertible
ARMA(p,q) model (with S.Bhattacharya) : Journal of Time Series Analysis, (2013), 34,
1, 130-137.
Missing values in Linear Regression : Imputations using Error Contaminated Linear
Predictors (with S.Guria) : Communications in Statistics – Theory and Methods (2013),
DOI 10.1080/03610926.2012.748918.
Asymptotic Distribution of Estimators of Parameters in an ARMA(p, q) process in the
presence of explosive roots (with S.Bhattacharya) : Applicationes Mathematicae, (2012),
39, 3, 257-272.
Rate of Convergence to Normality of estimators in a random coefficient ARMA (p, q)
model (with S.Bhattacharya) : Communications in Statistics – Theory and Methods,
(2011), 40, 1081-1092.
Estimation and Prediction in an Autoregressive process in the presence of multiple
missing observations (with S.Chakraborty) : Annales de l’I.S.U.P., (2011), 55, 2-3, 27-42.
12. Recent Invited lectures delivered :
Workshop on Biostatistics organized by Kathmandu University School of Medical
Sciences and Nepal Health Research Council, November 18-21, 2018.
IFCAM (Indo-French Centre for Applied Mathematics) Winter School on Stochastic
Methods for Uncertainty Quantification and Sensitivity Analysis of Complex Models
organized by Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Kalyani, December 13,
2018.
Research Workshop and Conference on Statistical Methods in Finance, Indian Statistical
Institute and Chennai Mathematical Institute, December 17-19, 2018.
Workshop on Prospects and Constraints on Firm Investment, Financing and Innovation in
Changing Global Environment organized by the Nottingham University Business School,
October 12, 2017
Seminar on Finance, Growth and Inequality, organized by the Department of Statistics,
University of Calcutta, December 19, 2017.
