Bikas K Sinha

• Current Address :

Professor of Statistics

Stat-Math. Unit

Indian Statistical Institute

202, B.T. Road

Kolkata – 700 108

INDIA

• : bksinha@isical.ac.in , sinhabikas@yahoo.com

• Phone # :
• Office : 091-33 2575-3416
• Home  : 091-33-2424-9059
  
• Fax # : 091-33-2577-3071

• Nationality : Indian.

• Education :
• B.Sc.[Statistics Honours - 1965; First Class Second in order of Merit - Silver Medalist] : Calcutta University, Kolkata, India.
• M Sc.[Statistics - 1967 ; First Class Second in order of Merit - Silver Medalist] : Calcutta University, Kolkata, India.
• Ph D [ Statistics - 1972] : Calcutta University, Kolkata, India.

• Academic Assignments within India :
• Assistant Professor of Statistics - Calcutta University : 1972-1975
• Associate Professor of Statistics - Indian Statistical Institute : 1979
• Professor of Statistics - Indian Statistical Institute : 1985

• Academic Assignments outside India :
• Visiting Associate Professor of Statistics : Institute of Mathematics, Federal University of Bahia, Brazil : 1975 - 1979 [4 years ] and 1995 [2 months]
• Visiting Associate Professor of Statistics : North Carolina State University, Raleigh : 1982 [January - December]
• Visiting Professor of Statistics : North Carolina State University , Raleigh: July 1985 - June, 1986
• Visiting Professor of Statistics : University of Illinois at Chicago : Academic Year 1986-1987; One Semester : 1988, 1989, 1991, 1999
• Visiting Professor of Statistics : University of Maryland - Baltimore County : Summer Appointments : 1991, 1992, 1994,1999; Semestral Appointment : January May, 1999
• Visiting Scientist : University of Waterloo, Canada : Short-Term Appointments during 1986,1988,1990,1994,1996,1997,1998,2000,2001, 2002
• Visiting Research Scientist : University of Augsburg, Germany : Short-Term Appointments in 1993 and 1996
• Visiting Research Scientist : University of Tampere, Finland : Short-Term Appointments during 1993 - 2004
• Visiting Scholar : Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand : 2002- 2004

• Other Overseas Academic Assignments :
• UN Expert on Mission at a Workshop in Survey Methodology for Post-Enumeration Surveys at Guinea Bissau : June [3 weeks] in 1991
• Consultant, USEPA : 1992 [ May-June]

• Editorial Assignments :
• Associate Editor : JSPI : 1992-1997
• Editorial Board Member : Sankhya : 1985-1995
• Calcutta Statistical Association Bulletin : Associate Editor [1988-1992 ] AND Editor [1993-2000]
• Editorial Member of Pakistan Journal of Statistics etc
• Acted as Referee for major statistical journals

• Major Research Interest :
• Inference [including Finite Population Inference], Optimal Design of Experiments
• Sequential Estimation, Statistical Models and Methods in Sociological Studies
• Characterization Problems, Reliability-related Inference, Environmental statistics

• Ph. D. Students Produced :

1. Professor S Sengupta [ Professor of Statistics, Calcutta University ] Finite Population Inference
2. Dr R Saharay [ Associate Professor, Indian Statistical Institute] Optimal Designs

• Honours and Awards :
• PCMahalanobis Medal : 1980
• Elected Member, International Statistical Institute : 1985 -
• Coveted Plaque awarded by Forum for Interdisciplinary Mathematics, USA: 1999
• President, Section of Statistics, Indian Science Congress [ 2001-2002]

• Research Publications

• Research Collaborators