Education

Education

1990-1994	PhD, Department of Statistics, University of Connecticut.
1987-1989	Master of Statistics, Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta.
1984-1987	BSc in Statistics (Honours), Presidency College, University of Calcutta.

Employment

Since 2013	Professor of Statistics, Mathematics and S3RI
2004-2013	Senior Lecturer in Statistics, Mathematics and S3RI
1999-2003	Lecturer in Statistics, School of Mathematics, University of Southampton.
1997-1999	Lecturer in Statistics, School of Mathematics, Cardiff University.
1994-1996	Research Associate, Statistical Laboratory, Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics, Cambridge University.

Visiting Positions

September 2011	Visiting Lecturer Department of Statistical Science, Duke University.
November 2011	Visiting Lecturer Mathematical Sciences Institute, Australian National University, Canberra.
Jul 2007-Jan 2008	Senior Research Associate, US Environmental Protection Agency.
Mar-Jul, 2003	Visiting fellow, SAMSI and Department of Statistical Science, Duke University.

Journal Editorships

Since 2019	Spatial Statistics
2015-2019	Biometrical Journal
2013-2015	Environmental and Ecological Statistics
2012-2014	Sankhya, the Indian Journal of Statistics
2008-2012	Journal of the American Statistical Association (Applications and Case Studies)
2008-2012	Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series C: Applied Statistics

External Examining

Date	University	Thesis Title
July 2020	Newcastle University	Modelling Voxel Dependent Hemodynamic Response Function
May 2019	University of Sheffield	Bayesian Inference for Dynamic Spatio-temporal Models
December 2018	University of Sheffield	Spatio-temporal Models for high dimensional data
September 2017	Glasgow University	Nonparametric statistical downscaling for the fusion of in-lake and remote sensing data
December 2016	Lancaster University	Statistical Methods for Weather-related Insurance Claims.
May 2014	Open University	Dynamic Bayesian Smooth Transition Autoregressive (DBSTAR) models for non-stationary nonlinear time series.
March 2014	Lancaster University	Spatio-Temporal Modelling of Partially Observed Processes.
December 2012	University of Kent at Canterbury	Contribution to the Bayesian Analysis of Mixture Models.
April 2011	Bath University	Bayesian Spatio-temporal modelling of Air pollution.
March 2008	University of Manchester	Markov Chain Monte Carlo Methods Applied to Integer-Valued Time Series.
December 2006	Imperial College	Non-Stationary Spatial Statistics in the Geosciences.
July 2006	Lancaster University	A Bayesian partitioning approach to modelling and mapping case control data.