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Statistician and PhD student at NUS, working on computational biology. I'm proficient in R, Python, and C++, and contribute to open-source software used in statistical genomics.
Education
PhD in Statistics and Data Science
2026 – (2030)National University of Singapore
- Supervised by Dr. Jonathan Göke (research attachment at A*STAR GIS) and Dr. Alexandre Thiéry.
- Supported by the NUS Industry-Relevant PhD Scholarship (NUS-IRP).
- Research focus: long-read transcriptomics.
Master of Statistics
2024 – 2026Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata
- Specialization: Applied Statistics (Biostatistics).
- First Division with Distinction: 78.1% aggregate.
Bachelor of Statistics (Hons.)
2021 – 2024Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata
- First Division with Distinction: 76.84% aggregate.
Research
scAICME: Adaptive marker-guided annotation of single-cell and spatial RNA-seq data
Aug 2025 – presentProf. Raghunath Chatterjee, ISI Kolkata · Dr. Jayant Jha, ISI Kolkata
Coordinate descent for adaptively-weighted quantile regression
Jun – Nov 2025Dr. Sumanta Basu, Cornell University · Prof. Diganta Mukherjee, ISI Kolkata
Extending joint location-scale tests to multivariate phenotypes
Apr – Oct 2025Dr. Arunabha Majumdar, Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad
Sample size compensation for using proxy tissues in transcriptome-wide association studies
May 2023 – May 2024Dr. Arunabha Majumdar, Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad
Emotional responses to Hindustani classical music from cognitive data
Jun – Dec 2022Reading project on Bayesian statistics
Jun – Aug 2022Prof. Kiranmoy Das, ISI Kolkata
Experience
Student Attachment
Aug 2026 – presentA*STAR Genome Institute of Singapore
- PhD research attachment with the Göke Lab.
Research Consultant
Jul – Sep 2025- A review of energy storage solutions for datacenters, weighing reliability, sustainability, and implementation cost.
- Statistical input for large-scale integration of EV charging into residential and commercial real estate.
Career break
2024 – 2025- I took a year off for medical reasons.
Mentor & Analyst
Nov 2021 – Jul 2024- Mentored students for entrance examinations, bridging the gap between high school curricula and the requirements of institutes like ISI and CMI.
- Estimated student ranks for IAT and NEST 2023 from prior data and survey responses, using spline regression and semi-parametric bias estimation (May – Jul 2023).
Open source
PLINK on Arch Linux
2024 – presentPackage maintainer, AUR & BioArchLinux
Bioconductor
2026 – presentContributor
r-lib
2026 – presentContributor
BioArchLinux
2025 – presentConsortium member and package maintainer
Zotero
2024 – 2025Contributor
Stirling-PDF
2025Contributor
Heroic Games Launcher
2021Contributor
Citra & yuzu
2018 – 2019Contributor
Scholarships & awards
KVPY Fellowship
2019 & 2020Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru, for the Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India
Awarded two years running, in the SA and SX streams. All India Ranks 694 (2019) and 1291 (2020).
National Talent Search Scholarship
2019National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT), Govt. of India
A national scholarship selected through a two-stage written examination.
JTST Junior Encouragement Award
2019Jagadis Bose National Science Talent Search (JBNSTS), Kolkata
For performance in the Junior Talent Search Test, followed by interview.
Entrance examinations (2021)
| Examination | Rank | Outcome |
|---|---|---|
| National Entrance Screening Test (NEST) | #12of 24,000+ | Offered admission to the National Institute of Science Education and Research (NISER), Bhubaneswar |
| ISI B. Stat. entrance | #53of 2,500+ | Joined the B. Stat. (Hons.) program at ISI Kolkata |
| IISER Aptitude Test | #137of 20,000+ | Offered admission to all Indian Institutes of Science Education and Research (IISERs) |
| WBJEE (state rank) | #50of 60,000+ | Offered admission to top engineering colleges in West Bengal |
| JEE Main | #4,342of 1,000,000+ | Qualified for JEE Advanced |
| JEE Advanced | #10,329of 150,000+ | Did not participate in admissions, having joined ISI |
Service & leadership
Convener, Integration 2024
2023 – 2024Integration is the annual techno-cultural-sports fest of the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata.
Founding Head, Digital Infrastructure Committee, Integration 2024
2023 – 2024IT Specialist, Integration 2023
2022 – 2023Handled a major chunk of all IT and technical work for the fest, including the MTRP email system.
Examination Controller (Online), MTRP 2023
2022 – 2023The Mathematics Talent Reward Programme, run as part of Integration.
Treasurer & event manager, Mas Fresco 2022–23
2022 – 2023Class representative, B. Stat. batch of 2024
2021 – 2024Head of the IT Club, B.D.M. International, Kolkata
2018Skills
- Statistics & data analysis
- RPythontidyversepandaspolarsscipystatsmodelsmixed modelsbootstrapMCMCtime series
- Bayesian & probabilistic programming
- StanJAGSPyMCNumPyro
- Machine learning & HPC
- PyTorchTensorFlowscikit-learnCUDAparallel & distributed computing
- Bioinformatics
- scverseBioconductorPLINK
- Software engineering
- C/C++KotlingitCMakeMakeDockerCI/CDLinux
- Data & infrastructure
- PostgreSQLSQLiteMongoDBRESTgRPCscrapingCloudflare Workers
- Communication
- ShinyJupytermarimoSvelteReactLaTeXteaching
- Languages
- English (native)Hindi (native)Bengali (native)German (A1)