Deepayan Sarkar

Education

2000-2006 Ph.D (Statistics), University of Wisconsin–Madison. Dissertation topic: “On the Analysis of Optical Mapping Data”. 1998-2000 M.Stat with distinction, Indian Statistical Institute 1995-1998 B.Stat (Hons), Indian Statistical Institute

Employment

2015-Present Associate Professor, Theoretical Statistics and Mathematics Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi. 2009-2015 Assistant Professor, Theoretical Statistics and Mathematics Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi. 2006-2009 Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Computational Biology, Public Health Sciences at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center.

Teaching

2009-Present Statistical Inference, Programming and Data Structures, Pattern Recognition, Statistical Computing, Linear Models, Regression Techniques, Introductory Computer Programming. 2004-2005 Co-instructor for the Summer Institute for Training in Biostatistics (SIBS) program at UW Madison. 2000-2002 Teaching Assistant at UW Madison for Statistics 301 (Introduction to Statistics), Statistics 849 and 850 (Theory & Application of Regression & Analysis of Variance I and II).

Awards

The 2004 John M. Chambers Statistical Software Award for “Lattice: A package implementing Trellis Graphics in R”