Amitava Mukhopadhyay, Ph.D.
Biostatistician
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Present Position and Address
Manager (Lead BioStatistician)
Life Sciences and Health Care ISU
TATA Consultancy Services
C-56, Phase-II, NOIDA, India – 201305
Professional Synopsis
Dynamic, accomplished senior Biostatistician with 6 years in industry (including 3 years in clinical trial domain) and 14 years in Research and Academic.
Statistical Knowledge and Expertise:
Statistical Consultant at organizational level
Expertise in development of Statistical Analysis Plan (SAP) for Clinical trial
Maintain proficiency in applying new and varied Statistical methods
Participate in peer-review work
Expertise in modeling
Well versed with Multivariate Spatio-temporal, Regression analysis and Algorithms
Pharmaceutical Industry/Therapeutic Area Knowledge:
Have broad understanding about the drug hunting process
Knowledge of all phases clinical trial including drug development process
Experience in Endocrine, Oncology, and Neuroscience Therapeutic areas
Experience in business process activities.
Communication, Leadership and Influence:
Effective leader of cross-functional groups as a technical expert
Extensive experience in team dynamics
Significant collaborator to represent results including scientific presentation
Effective communicator of customer’s queries
Skilled in mentoring and employee development.
Regulatory Compliance:
100% Compliant with organizational and external body’s policies, procedures, processes
Well versed in ICH GCP guide lines, especially, in E3 and E9
Additional Skills:
Interpersonal skills for effective customer consultation
Self-management skills with a focus on quality and on time delivery
Creative and innovative in problem solving and strategic thinking
Areas of Research Interest:
Stochastic and Delay Differential Equations
Parameter estimation
Dynamical Systems
Modeling
Microarray Data Analysis
Educational Synopsis
Ph.D. (1999): (worked at Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta) from Jadavpur University, Calcutta.
- Prepared thesis on ‘Studies in Applied Mathematical Ecology’.
M.Sc (1986): (Applied Mathematics) from Jadavpur University, Calcutta.
B.Sc (1984): (Mathematics, Statistics & Physics) from St. Xavier’s College, Calcutta.
Professional and Post Doctoral Experience
Since Jan’07
Lead BioStatistician, Manager
Life Sciences and Health Care ISU, Tata Consultancy Services, Phase II, Noida
Provide statistical support in multiple dimensions including the development of statistical analysis plans in collaboration with Stats Team of US based pharmaceutical company.
Technical leadership and expertise to execute multi-disciplinary or cross functional projects that will influence Statistical Science organization.
Lead the assessment and introduction of new statistical technology and methodology to apply to business.
Lead and responsible for Biostatistical analysis for a large US based customer of TCS.
Assist in or be accountable for selecting statistical methods for data analysis corresponding to the relevant sections of the protocol.
Providing statistical expertise for the preparation of Statistical Analysis Plan (SAP), Analytical Data Set (ADS) and Table Figure and Listing (TFL) requirements in clinical trial.
Provide Statistical support to answer questions from clients and involve with review of Clinical Trial Registry (CTR) to ensure consistency with protocol and adequacy in collecting data to meet objectives defined in the protocol and the statistical analysis plan.
Participate in peer-review work products from other statistical colleagues, and advise others on technical aspects.
Represent the Biostatistical group in clinical research, clinical information, and planning forums within the company.
Expertise in planning and organizing day-to-day research activities and resolving procedural problems as appropriate to the timely completion of research objectives.
Involved in imparting training.
Apr’04 to Jan’07
Scientist with GVK Biosciences Private Limited, Hyderabad, India
Lead and participated in the Biostatistical design and analysis of pharmacokinetic, Phase I, and Phase II programs for developing an anti-psychotic drug following Regulatory requirements.
Regression Analysis in Qualitative Structure Activity Relationship (QSAR) studies in Drug Designing.
Responsibilities include extensive client interaction to understand expectations, requirements; formulate solutions and resource estimations, identification of resource training requirements, providing guidance to the team and maintaining or fixing analysis to clinical, Biological and chemical databases.
Designing & developing statistical analysis for biological, chemical & pharmacological databases.
Aug’02 to Apr’04
Post Doctoral Fellow (DBT), Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad
Research work involved statistical and mathematical modeling of diseases in human as well as economically important bio-resources (viral infection in prawns) of available data.
Guide of graduate students & summer trainees in modeling biological systems.
Since May’00
Collaborator, Laboratorio di Biomatematica, Universita Cattolica, Rome, Italy
Handling research project of Glucose Insulin Kinetic Model of Laboratorio di Biomatematica, CNR Centro Fisiopatologia Shock, Universita Cattolica, Rome, Italy.
Building mathematical model of Glucose Insulin Kinetic in human and estimating the parameters involved in it through real life data.
Since Jan’95
Mathematical Ecology of Embryological Research Unit, ISI, Calcutta
Worked as a Collaborator
Teaching Experience
Sep’92 to Sep’99
Chandannagore Government College, Chandannagore, W.B., India
Subjects: Statistics and Mathematics
Aug’88 – Aug’02
Kanailal Vidyamandir, Chandannagore, W.B., India
Subjects: Statistics and Mathematics
Review Activities
Reviewer of Ecological Modelling (Journal from Elsevier)
Reviewer of Cambridge University Press
Personal Details
Date of Birth: 23rd October 1963
Sex: Male
Nationality: Indian
Marital Status: Married
Number of Children: Two
Current Organization: Tata Consultancy Services
Designation: Manager
Location: Phase – II, Noida – 201305, India
Phone No.: +91-931******* (Cell), +91-120-******* (Res.)
Email: ***********.*******@*****.***
List of Publications
Journal Publications:
1. Upadhyay, R. K., Mukhopadhyay, A. and S. R. K. Iyengar (2007)
Influence of Environmental Noise on the Dynamics of a Realistic Ecological Model,
Fluctuation and Noise Letters, 7, L61-L77.
2. Mukhopadhyay, A. (2005)
A mathematical Model for Controling Infection of Prawn,
Simulation News Europe, Issue 44/45, 33-35.
3. Mukhopadhyay, A., De Gaetano, A., Arino, O. (2004)
Modeling The Intra-venous Glucose Tolerance Test: a global study for a single-distributed-delay model,
Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems, Series B, 4, 407-417.
4. Mukhopadhyay, A., Tapaswi, P. K. and Chattopadhyay, J. (2003)
A Space-Time State-Space Model of Phytoplankton Community,
Nonlinear Analysis: Real World Applications, 4, 437-456.
5. Chattopadhyay, J., Mukhopadhyay, A. and Roy, P. K. (2003)
Effect of Viral Infection on Generalized Gause model of Predator-prey System,
Journal of Biological System, 11, 19-26.
6. Chattopadhyay, J., Mukhopadhyay, A. and Chatterjee, S. (2001)
A Delay Differential Equation Model of a Predator Prey System with a Transmissible disease in the Prey Population,
Nonlinear Studies, 8, 485-501.
7. Tapaswi, P. K., Mukhopadhyay, A. (1999)
Effects of Environmental Fluctuation on Plankton Allelopathy,
Journal of Mathematical Biology, 39, 39-58.
8. Mukhopadhyay, A., Chattopadhyay, J. and Tapaswi, P. K. (1998)
Delay Differential Equation Model in Plankton Allelopathy,
Mathematical Biosciences, 149, 167-189. PMID: 9621682
9. Mukhopadhyay, A., Chattopadhyay, J. and Tapaswi, P. K. (1997)
Selective Harvesting of a Two Species Fishery Model,
Ecological Modelling, 94, 243-253.
10. Chattopadhyay, J., Mukhopadhyay, A. and Tapaswi, P. K. (1996)
A Resource Based Competitive System In A Three Species Fishery.
Nonlinear Studies, 3, 73-84.
Conference Publications:
11. Mukhopadhyay, A. (2004)
Distributed-delay model of the Intra-Venous Glucose Tolerance Test.
Abstracted and presented in International Conference on Nonlinear Phenomena 2004.
IISc, Bangalore, India.
12. Mukhopadhyay, A., Sinha, Somdatta (2003)
Lorenz System Under Perturbation
Proceedings of the First National Conference on Nonlinear Systems & Dynamics, 237-240, Centre for Theoretical Studies, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India.
13. Mukhopadhyay, A. (2002)
Persistence in a Non-Homogeneous Competitive System
Abstracted and presented in National Conference on Recent Trends in Mathematical Science, Department of Mathematics, Jadavpur University, Calcutta, India.
14. Mukhopadhyay, A., De Gaetano, A., Arino, O., Mingrone, G. and Castaneto, M. (2000)
A Single-Distributed-Delay Model of The Intra-Venous Glucose-Insulin Tolerance Test: a global study.
Applicable Mathematics: Its Perspectives and Challenges, Editor J.C.Misra, 369-378, Narosa Publishing House, Calcutta, India.
15. Mukhopadhyay, A. (1999)
Reaction Diffusion In Plankton Allelopathy: A delay differential approach
Mathematical Modeling of Nonlinear Systems. Editors Misra, J.C. and Sinha, S.B., 322-334, Department of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India.
16. Mukhopadhyay, A. (1998)
Harmless Delay in Plankton Allelopathy
Abstracted and presented in National Conference on Recent Trends in Mathematical Science, Department of Mathematics, Jadavpur University, Calcutta, India.