University Assistant

Curriculum Vitae for Jayanta Kumar Pal

Statistical & Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute

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Email : abqgnl@r.postjobfree.com url : www.samsi.info/jpal

Education:

PhD in Statistics, University of Michigan, August 2006.

Master in Statistics, Indian Statistical Institute, 2002. 89.9%.

Bachelor in Statistics, Indian Statistical Institute, 2000. 86.2%.

Higher Secondary Examination, West Bengal, 1997. Appeared from

Narendrapur Ramakrishna Mission. 91.8%.

Madhyamik Examination, West Bengal, 1995. Appeared from Naren-

drapur ramakrishna Mission. 90.9%.

Awards:

Outstanding First year Student award, University of Michigan, 2002-

2003.

Statistics Department fellowship, University of Michigan, 2002-2003.

Selected for PCM symposium lecture series, I.S.I. Calcutta, 2002.

Ranked 5th in the state of West Bengal, Higher Secondary Examina-

tion, 1997.

Research Interests

Non parametric theory problems. High dimension data problems.

Inference and asymptotics for Random Matrices.

Multivariate distributions, Geometric methods. statistical shape analysis,

Monotone incomplete data inference.

Function estimations, under shape restrictions.

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Empirical processes, Brownian Motion.

Self-similar processes and its application to internet tra c.

Mathematical logic and stochastic applications.

Publications

Work in progress : 1. Inference on multivariate monotone incomplete data. joint work

with Donald Richards.

2. Inference on the class of unimodal densities, hazard functions.

Joint work with Moulinath Banerjee.

3. Asymptotic behavior of penalized residual sum of squares in the

end-point estimation of monotone regression functions.

Accepted/Submitted : 1. Jayanta Pal, Michael Woodroofe and Mary Meyer - Estimating

the Polya frequency functions. To appear in IMS Lecture Notes

Monograph Series (Yehuda Vardi volume). 2006.

2. Matthew Walker, Dr. Mario Matteo, Ed Olszewski, Jayanta Pal,

Bodhisattva Sen, Dr. Michael Woodroofe - On kinematic sub-

structures in the Sextans dwarf spheroidal galaxies. Astrophysical

Journal and Letters, 642, L41-L44.

3. Jayanta Pal - End-point estimation for decreasing densities : the

asymptotic behavior of the penalized likelihood ratio. Submitted

to Annals of Statistics, 2006.

4. Jayanta Pal and Moulinath Banerjee - Estimation of Smooth

link functions in monotone response models. Submitted to Bio-

metrika, 2006.

5. Jayanta Pal and Michael Woodroofe - Shape restricted regression

with smoothness adjustments and its large sample properties. To

appear in Statistica Sinica, 2005.

6. Jayanta Pal and Michael Woodroofe - On the distance between

the Cumulative Sum Diagram and its Greatest Convex Minorant.

Scandinavian Journal of Statistics, 33 279 - 291.

Invited Presentations

Invited presentations in the Departments of Statistics in Michigan

State University, University of Wisconsin, Texas A & M University,

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Rutgers University, University of Pittsburgh, University of Illinois

(Urbana-Champaign), Yale University.

Estimating a decreasing density in the Dwarf Spheroidal galaxy : In-

vited presentation, Dark Matter in the Universe : An interdisciplinary

conference, Ann Arbor, October 2005.

Bayesian approach to the Design of Experiments : Prasanta Chandra

Mahalanobis Symposium for Student presentations, Indian Statistical

Insitute. July 2002.

Computer Skills

Languages : Fortran, S-Plus, R, Matlab, html, latex.

Operating Systems : Windows, UNIX, Macintosh.

References

Dr. Michael Woodroofe

L.J. Savage Professor

University of Michigan

Department of Statistics.

Dr. Moulinath Banerjee

Assistant Professor

University of Michigan

Department of Statistics.

Dr. George Michailidis

Associate Professor

University of Michigan

Department of Statistics.

Dr. Vijay Nair

D.A. Darling Professor and Chair

University of Michigan

Department of Statistics.

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