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Kamta Rai Curriculum Vitae

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CURRICULUM

VITAE

Kamta Rai

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EDUCATION:

:

B.S. University

of Lucknow, India, 1963

Statistics, Mathematics, Physics

M.S.

University

of Lucknow, India, 1965

Mathematical Statistics

M.S. McMasterUniversity.

Canada. 1973

Statistics

Ph.D. University

of Wisconsin, Madison, U.S.A., 1978

Title of Dissertation: "Generalized Multihit Dose-Response Model for Low-Dose

Extrapolation"

Major: Statistics

Minor: Computer Science

EMPLOYMENT

1985-Present

Professor, Department

of Mathematics,

California State Polytechnic University, Pomona

Summer,1985

Visiting Professor, Division

of Biostatistics,

School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York

1981-85 Associate

Professor, Department of Mathematics,

California State Polytechnic University, Pomona

1981-82 Visiting

Associate Statistician, Applied Mathematics Department,

Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York (on leave from California

State Polytechnic University, Pomona)

Summer,

1982, 83, 84 Visiting

Associate Professor,

Division of Biostatistics, School

of Public Health,

Columbia University, New York

1979-81 Assistant

Professor, Department of Mathematics,

California State Polytechnic University, Pomona

Summer, 1980

Research

Collaborator, Applied Mathematics Department,

Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York

1979-80

Statistical

Consultant, The Rand Corporation.

Santa Monica, California

1978-1979 Lecturer,

Department of Mathematics

California State Polytechnic University,

Pomona

1977-78 Associate

in Mathematics, Department of Mathematics

University of California, Davis

1973-77 Teaching/Research

Assistant, Department of Statistics,

University of Wisconsin, Madison

1972-73 Teaching

Assistant, Department of Applied Mathematics,

McMaster University, Canada

1965-72 Assistant

Professor, Statistics Section,

Department of Mathematics, Banaras Hindu University, India

HONORS

AND AWARDS:

1961-65 University

Scholarship, University of Lucknow, India

1965 Dr. V.

S. Huzurbazar Prize for obtaining First Position in M.S. Examination

1972-73 Teaching

Assistantship and Research Scholarship,

Department of Applied Mathematics, McMaster University, Canada

1973-77 Teaching/Research

Assistantship, Department of Statistics,

University of Wisconsin, Madison, U.S.A.

1988 Meritorious

Performance and Professional Promise (MPPP) Award,

California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, U.S.A.

EDITORIAL

EXPERIENCE:

Associate Editor. Cal Poly Scholar.

1989-1992.

Refereed research articles for:

A. The Journal of Statistics

and Probability Letters

B. Biometrics

C. The Journal of the Royal

Statistical Society, series C

SPECIAL

EXPERIENCE: 1. Two

years of experience of analyzing various sets of toxic-response data for

theFood Safety Council. The report of this analysis has appeared

in Food and Cosmetics Toxicology. Volume 2. Supplement 2, December

1978.

2. Several

years of experience of FORTRAN programming, BMDP, MINITAB, SCSS, SPSS, SAS.

3. Several

years of experience of statistical consulting.

FIELD OF INTEREST:

Biostatistics, Bioassay models and low-dose extrapolation. Survival

Analysis, Linear and

nonlinear regression analysis, Time-Series analysis. Sampling Techniques,

Statistical

computing.

RESEARCH PAPERS:

1. "A New Statistic for Testing Exponentiality." Communications

in Statistics. 3(5),

485-493, 1974. (With M. L. Tiku and E. Mead).

2. "A Comparison of Three Dose-Response Models for Extrapolation."

Presented at the

conference on Cancer Prevention Quantitative Aspects sponsored by NCI

at Reston,

Virginia, September 25-28,1978. (With J. Cornfield and J. Van Ryzin).

3. "Risk Assessment of Toxic Environmental Substances Using a

Generalized Multihit

Dose-response Model." Energy and Health. N. E. Breslow and A. S.

Whittemore

(Eds.), SIAM Publications, Philadelphia, 99-117, 1979. (With J. Van

Ryzin).

4. "MULTIHTT: A Computer Program for Risk Assessment of Toxic

Substances." Rand

Publication N-1261, The Rand Corporation, Santa Monica, California,

1979. (With J.

Van Ryzin).

5. "Shrinkage Estimation in Nonparametric Bayesian Survival Analysis."

American

Statistical Association. Proceedings of the Social Statistics Section,

96-99, 1979. (With

V. Susaria and J. Van Ryzin).

6. "Procedures for Assessing Risk at Low Levels of Exposure."

Archives of Toxicology.

Supplement 3: Quantitative Aspects of Risk Assessment in Chemical Carcinogens.

295-303, 1980. (With J. Cornfield and J. Van Ryzin).

7. "The Use of Quantal Response Data to Make Predictions."

The Scientific Basis of

Toxicity Assessment. H. R. Witischi (Ed.), Elsevier/North-Holland Biomedical

Press,

273-290, 1980. (With J. Van Ryzin).

8. "MULTI80: A Computer Program for Risk Assessment of Toxic Substances."

Rand

Publication. N-1512, The Rand Corporation, Santa Monica, California,

1980. (With J.

Van Ryzin).

9. "Shrinkage Estimation in Nonparametric Bayesian Survival Analysis:

A Simulation

Study." Communications in Statistics. Part B-Simulation and Computation.

9(3),

271-298, 1980. (With V. Sursaria and J. Van Ryzin).

10. "A Generalized Multihit Dose-Response Model for Low-Dose Extrapolation."

Biometrics. 37, 341-352, 1981. (With J. Van Ryzin).

11. "A Dose-Response Model for Bivariate Toxic Response Data."

Environmetrics 81 -

Summaries of Conference Presentation, 8-9, 1981. (With J. Van Ryzin).

12. "A Note on a Multivariate Version of Rolle's Theorem and Uniqueness

of Maximum

Likelihood Root." Communications in Statistics. Part A - Theory

and Methods. 11(13),

1505-1510, 1982. (With J. Van Ryzin).

13. "On the Use of the Gamma Multihit Model for Low-Dose Extrapolation."

Technical

Report No. B29. Division of Biostatistics, School of Public Health,

Columbia

University, New York, August 1983. (With J. Van Ryzin).

14. "A Dose-Response Model Incorporating Michaelis-Menten Kinetics."

Biopharmaceutical

Section Proceedings of the American Statistical Association. 59-64,

1984. (With J. Van

Kyzin).

15. "Multihit Models for Bivariate Quantal Responses." Statistics

and Decisions. 2, 111-

129, 1984. (With J. Van Ryzin).

16. "A Dose-Response Model for Teratological Experiments Involving

Quantal Responses."

Biometrics. 41, 1-9, 1985. (With J. Van Ryzin).

17. "A Dose-Response Model Incorporating Nonlinear Kinetics."

Biometrics. 43, 95-105,

1987; (With J. Van Ryzin).

18. "Response to Reader Reaction: Dose-Response Model for Teratological

Experiments."

Biometrics. 43, 1016, 1987.

19. "Design Effect on Trend Test and Efficiency of Estimated Shape

Parameter of Dose

Response Model." The Cal Poly Scholar. 1, 122-129, 1988.

20. "Logistic Regression for Quantal Response Data in Teratological

Experiments." In

preparation.

21. "Distribution of the Number of Successes in Bernoulli Trials

with Dependence." In

preparation.

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