CV (Overview)
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Education
- Ph.D in Statistics and Data Science, Carnegie Mellon University, 2022 (expected)
- Masters in Statistics (Math-stat-probability specialization), Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India, 2016
- Bachelors (Hons.) in Statistics, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India, 2014
Research and publications
Doubly robust capture-recapture methods for estimating population size.
Das M, Kennedy EH, Jewell NP (2021). Doubly Robust Capture-recapture Methods for Estimating Population Size." arXiv preprint arXiv:2104.14091.
drpop: Efficient and Doubly Robust Population Size Estimation in R
Das M, Kennedy EH (2021). drpop: Efficient and Doubly Robust Population Size Estimation in R" arXiv preprint:2111.07191
Ongoing
Software(s)
- R package drpop (version 0.0.3 on CRAN) to estimate efficient and doubly robust total population size estimate form list data. Development version is on Github
- R package sensipop to perform sensitivity analysis in total population size estimation problems (under development)
Teaching
As teaching assistant
- Modern Regression (Fall 2016, 2017, 2018)
- Introduction to Statistical Inference (Spring 2017, 2018)
- Probability Theory and Random Processes (Spring 2022), Head TA
- Introduction to Probability Modeling (Spring 2019)
- Advanced Data Analysis (Spring 2020), Head TA
- Engineering Statistics and Quality Control (Fall 2021), Head TA
- Deep Learning (Masters of Computational Finance, Summer 2019, Fall 2019)
- Machine Learning (Masters of Computational Finance, Fall 2019)
Industry experience
- Summer 2020: Data Science Intern at Upstart Network Inc.
- Duties included: Data cleaning, feature extraction, model fitting and analysis.
- Spring 2015: Winner of Capital One Data science competition.
- Developed model to identify loan defaulters.
- Spring 2015: Student researcher at National Sample Survey Organization, India
- Duties included: Processing large census data of commodities and analyzing the consumption pattern for different demographics.
Leadership
- General secretary, vice-president and co-treasurer of Carnegie Mellon University Indian Graduate Student Association in 2017, 2018 and 2020.
- Volunteer at Women in Data Science Conference (WiDS)