Amitava Mukherjee

• Ph.D. in Statistics from University of Calcutta, Kolkata, India, awarded on 09.05.2008. Title of the Thesis:Some Partially Sequential Nonparametric Tests and Their Applications.Thesis consists of Six Chapters including Introduction. The work lead to seven papers, all of which are published in reputed Elsevier/Springer Taylor and Francis Groups Journals: (Indexed in MathSciNet and/or Thompson Reuters Journal Citation Reports.)
• M.Sc. in Statistics from University of Calcutta, in 2002 with First Class. Specializations in Master Degree: Multivariate Analysis, Econometrics and Reliability.

*Experience Detail *

• Aug 2014 Associate Professor; XLRI Xavier School of Management, Production, Operations and Decision Sciences Area Jamshedpur; India
• Jan 2016 Feb 2016 - Visiting Research Fellow City University of Hong Kong, Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management Kowloon, Hong Kong. (Host: Prof. Min Xie)
  • Jan 2013 Aug 2014 - Assistant Professor Indian Institute of Management Udaipur, Operations Management, Quantitative Methods and Information Systems Area, Udaipur, India.
• Nov 2013 Jan 2014 - Visiting Research Fellow City University of Hong Kong, Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management Kowloon, Hong Kong. (Host: Prof. Min Xie)
  • Nov 2012 Dec 2012 - Visiting Professor Aalto University, Department of Mathematics and Systems Analysis Espoo, Province of Southern Finland, Finland.
• Jun 2012 Jul 2012 - Visiting Research Fellow City University of Hong Kong, Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management Kowloon, Hong Kong. (Host: Prof. Min Xie)
  • Dec 2011 Dec 2012 - Assistant Professor Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Department of Mathematics Chennai, India.
• Aug 2010 Dec 2011 - Researcher (Level-5) Aalto University, Department of Mathematics and Systems Analysis Helsinki, Finland.
• August 5-18, 2011 - Visiting Researcher, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Memorial University, St. Johns, Newfoundland, Canada, (Host: Prof. Brajendra Sutradhar)
  • Oct 2008 Aug 2010 - Postdoctoral Fellow Ume University, Department of Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics Ume, Sweden.
• Jan 2005 Sep 2008 - CSIR Senior Research Fellow (With one Extension in April 2008) University of Calcutta, Department of Statistics Calcutta, India.
• Jan 2003 Dec 2004 - CSIR Junior Research Fellow University of Calcutta, Department of Statistics Calcutta, India

Academic Distinction (Awards and Scholarships)

• Industrial Consultancy & Sponsored Research Funding under NFSG scheme, IIT Madras (INR: Rs. 12,00,000)
• Travel Support from Ministry of Statistics, Planning and Information for travelling to Jerusalem, Israel to attend 6th IWAP-2012.
• Travel Support from Department of Science and Technology, Government of India, for travelling to San Diego, USA to attend Joint Statistical Meetings, 2012.
• Received travel grant from the Wallenberg foundation in Sweden for participation in Fifth International workshop on Applied Probability, on Madrid, Spain, during 05.07.2010 to 08.07.2010.
• Received travel grant from the Wallenberg foundation in Sweden for participation in three International Conferences in India during 28.12.2009 to 13.01.2010.
• Selected for Umea University-Washington University Postdoctoral Exchange Programme for 2009-10 and offered an external grant of about SEK 17000.
• U.S. Nair Young Statistician Award conferred by Indian Society for Probability and Statistics in January 2010.
• Received travel award from the Wallenberg foundation in Sweden for participation as an invited speaker at the second International Workshop in Sequential Methodologies (IWSM) at the University of Technology of Troyes in France, June 15-17, 2009.
• Second Prize in National Meet of Research Scholars in Mathematical Sciences Held in Indian Institute of Technology at Kanpur, India during October-November 2007.
• Secured first position in the merit panel published By West Bengal College Service Commission in 2006 and subsequently offered to join as a lecturer in Basanti Devi College, Kolkata, India.
• Qualified UGC-CSIR JRF-NET in India (Ranked within top twenty percent among the list of successful candidates twice in succession).
• Awarded National Scholarship for Meritorious Performance in Secondary Examination in 1994.
• Awarded National Scholarship for Meritorious Performance in Higher Secondary Examination in 1996.

Journal Articles-Refereed

• Robust algorithms for economic designing of a nonparametric control chart for abrupt shift in locationC. Li, A. Mukherjee, Q. Su, M. Xie.Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation 86 (2), 306-323.
• Distribution-free Phase II CUSUM Control Chart for Joint Monitoring of Location and Scale S. Chowdhury, A. Mukherjee and S. Chakraborti Quality and Reliability Engineering International 31 (1), 135-151.
• Comparisons of Shewhart-type rank based control charts for monitoring location parameters of univariate processes Mukherjee, R. Sen.International Journal of Production Research, 53 (14), 4414-4445.
  
• Control charts for simultaneous monitoring of parameters of a shifted exponential distributionMukherjee, A. K. McCracken, S. Chakraborti.Journal of Quality Technology, 47 (2), 176-19
• Design and Implementation of CUSUM Exceedance Control Charts for Unknown Location. (Jointly with Dr. M. A Graham and Prof S. Chakraborti). 2014. International Journal of Production Research; Vol. 52, Issue 8: 5546-5564. (Taylor and Francis) (Published in 2014, International)
• A Rule of Thumb for Testing Symmetry about an Unknown Median against a Long Right Tail. (Jointly with Prof. A. M. Abd-Elfattah and Dr. B Pukait). 2014. Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation; Vol. 84, Issue 10: 1153-1187. (Taylor and Francis) (Published in 2014, International)
• A New Distribution-free Control Chart for Joint Monitoring of Unknown Location and Scale Parameters of Continuous Distributions. (Jointly with Dr. S Chowdhury and Prof. S Chakrabarti). 2014. Quality and Reliability Engineering International; Vol. 30, Issue 2: 191-204. (Wiley-Blackwell) (Published in 2014, International)
• Nonparametric Phase-II Monitoring for Detecting Monotone Trend Based on Inverse Sampling. 2013. Statistical Methods & Applications; Vol. 22, Issue 2: 131-153. (Springer) (Published in 2013, International)
• Control Charts for Simultaneous Monitoring of Unknown Mean and Variances of Normally Distributed Processes. (Jointly with Prof. S. Chakraborti and Dr. A. K. McCracken) 2013. Journal of Quality Technology; Vol. 45 Issue 4: 360-376 (American Society for Quality) (Published in 2013, International)
• Distribution-Free Exceedance CUSUM Control Charts for Location. (Jointly with Prof. S. Chakraborty and Ms. M. A. Graham). 2013. Communications in Statistics, Simulation and Computation; Vol. 42, Issue 5:1153-1187. (Taylor and Francis) (Published in 2013, International)
• A Distribution-free Control Chart for Joint Monitoring of Location and Scale. (jointly with Prof. S. Chakraborti). 2012. Quality and Reliability Engineering International; Vol: 28, Issue 3: 335 - 352. (Wiley-Blackwell) (Published in 2012, International)
• Distribution-Free Exponentially weighted Moving Average Control Charts for Monitoring Unknown Location. (jointly with Prof. S. Chakraborty and Ms. M. A. Graham).2012. Computational Statistics and Data Analysis; Vol: 56, Issue 8: 2539 - 2561. (Elsevier) (Published in 2012, International)
• Some Partially Sequential Nonparametric Tests for Detecting Linear Trend. (Jointly with U. Bandyopadhyay).2011. Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference; Vol: 141, Issue 8: 2645-2655. (Elsevier) (Published in 2011, International)
• A Near-Nonparametric Partially Sequential Test for Monitoring Phase-II Location under Pairwise Dependence between Two Phases. 2011. Sequential Analysis, Vol: 30, Issue 2: 208- 228. (Taylor and Francis) (Published in 2011, International)
• Semi-Sequential One-Shot Monitoring of Small Disorders with Controlled Type-I Error rate. 2010. Communications in Statiics, Theory and Methods; Vol: 39, Issue 15: 2829 - 2847. (Taylor and Francis) (Published in 2010, International)
• Simultaneous Semi-Sequential Testing of Dual Alternatives for Pattern Recognition. (Jointly with Dr. Barendra Purkait). 2011. Journal of Applied Statistics; Vol: 38, Issue 2: 399 - 419. (Taylor and Francis) (Published in 2010, International)
• Some Rank Based Two-Phase Procedures in Sequential Monitoring of Exchange Rate. 2009. Sequential Analysis, Vol: 28, Issue 2:137-162. (Taylor and Francis)(Publisd in 2009, International)
• Simultaneous Tests for Patterned Recognition using Nonparametric Partially Sequential Procedure. (Jointly with Prof. Uttam Bandyopadhyay and Dr. Barendra Purkait) .2008. Statistical Methodology; Vol: 5, Issue 6: 535-551. (Elsevier) (Published in 2008, International)
• Controlling Type-I Error Rate in Monitoring Structural Changes Using Partially Sequential Procedures. (Jointly with Prof. Uttam Bandyopadhyay and Dr. Atanu Biswas).2008. Communications in Statistics, Simulation and Computation; Vol: 37, Issue 3: 466-485. (Taylor and Francis) (Published in 2008, International)
• Geostatistical analysis of arsenic concentration in groundwater of west Bengal, India. (Jointly with Dr. Barendra Purkait). 2008. Frontiers in Earth Sciences in China; Vol: 2, Issue 3: 292-301. (Springer) (Published in 2008, International)
• Nonparametric Partial Sequential Tests for Patterned Alternatives in Multi-Sample Problems. (Jointly with Prof. Uttam Bandyopadhyay and Dr. Barendra Purkait).2007. Sequential Analysis; Vol: 26, Issue 4: 443-466. (Taylor and Francis) (Published in 2007, International)
• Nonparametric Partial Sequential Test for Location Shift at an Unknown Time Point. (Jointly with Prof. Uttam Bandyopadhyay). 2007. Sequential Analysis; Vol: 26, Issue 1: 99-113. (Taylor and Francis) (Published in 2007, International)