Curriculum Vitae

KANCHAN K. JAIN, MNSc Elected Member: International Statistical Institute, Netherlands

Elected Member: National Academy of Sciences, India

Office: DEPTT. OF STATISTICS PANJAB UNIVERSITY CHANDIGARH 160014 (INDIA) Ph. +911722534532 Email: jaink@pu.ac.in

Residence: H.NO. 34, SECTOR 16 PANCHKULA 134113 HARYANA, INDIA Ph: +911722572505 Fax: +911722567781 Cell: +919814301634 +919872641634 jaink14@gmail.com jaink14@yahoo.com

Designation Professor Date of Birth : 14.09.1959 Sex : Female

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Reliability • Survival Analysis • Measurement Error Models

• Actuarial Statistics • Bio-Statistics • Income Inequality

TEACHING INTERESTS

• Reliability • Probability • Stochastic Processes

• Actuarial Statistics • Bio Statistics • Operations Research

BOOK AUTHORSHIP

Adaptation author for the book Schaum’s outlines in Probability , Special Indian Edition, 2010. Tata McGraw Hill Pvt Limited EDUCATION

Ph. D. (Statistics) (1986) Panjab University, Chandigarh, INDIA M.Phil.(Statistics) (1980) (81%) Third in Panjab Uni., Chandigarh, INDIA M.Sc. (Statistics) (1979) (76%) Third in Panjab Uni., Chandigarh ,INDIA B.A.(Hons. In English) (1977) (72%) Fifth in Panjab Univ., Chandigarh, INDIA Certificate Course in French (80%)

ACTUARIAL EDUCATION

• Institute of Actuaries , London: Qualified the following exams Financial Economics, Probability and Mathematical Statistics, Stochastic Modelling , Survival Models .

• Institute of Actuaries of India, Mumbai Qualified the following exams Probability and Mathematical Statistics , Stochastic Modelling , Survival Models , Financial Mathematics , Actuarial Mathematics , Economics.

COMPUTER LITERACY R, S-Plus, Minitab, SPSS WORK EXPERIENCE

37 years of Teaching and Research.

Place: Deptt. Of Statistics, Panjab University, Chandigarh (INDIA)

Professor May 25, 2006-

Reader May 25, 1998 –May 24, 2006 Senior Lecturer April 1, 1990- May 24, 1998 Lecturer Jan.2, 1985-June15, 1985 and Oct.1,1985- March 31, 1990 Instructor Aug. 4, 1980 –Jan.1, 1985 and June 16- Sept. 30, 1985 ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE • Chairperson/Head, Department of Statistics, Panjab University,

Chandigarh from April 1, 2015 –March 31, 2018. Department has been sanctioned a grant of Rs. 56 lakhs under the third Phase of DSA by UGC in May, 2015.

• Member of Research Monitoring Committee, Department of Computer Science, Panjab University, Chandigarh;

• Member of evaluation committee at Dev Samaj College for Women, Chandigarh.

• Vice Chancellor’s Nominee for admissions at Department of Computer Science, Panjab University, Chandigarh in 2016

• Advisor to UPSC. • Member of UGC Expert Committees in Statistics. • Member of Research Degree Committee of the Department.

• Have been on the various Departmental committees since 1980. • Member of Board of Studies for Centre in mathematics and Statistics,

Central University of Punjab, Bathinda. • Member of Board of studies of Islamic University of Science and

Technology, Awantipora, Srinagar. • Placement Coordinator of the Departmental Placement Cell from 2005-

2011. • Member of Under Graduate of Board of Studies in Statistics, Maharishi

Dayanand University, Rohtak from 2006-08. • Member of Board of studies of Punjabi University, Patiala. • Member of Under Graduate of Board of Studies in Statistics, Kurukshetra

University, Kurukshetra from 2014-16. • Functioned as the Chairperson/Head, Department of Statistics, Panjab

University, Chandigarh from April 1, 1997 – March 31, 2000. During this period, the Department was sanctioned a grant of Rs. 35 lakhs under the third Phase of DRS by UGC.

EDITORIAL BOARD MEMBER: • Advances in Reliability, USA • InterStat, a wholly electronic Journal. • Open Journal of Statistics, Scientific Research Publishing, USA

AFFILIATIONS

Elected Member

International Statistical Institute, Netherlands

Life Member • National Academy of Sciences, India • Calcutta Statistical Association; • International Indian Statistical Association; • Indian Society of Probability and Statistics; • Indian Association for Productivity, Quality and Reliability (IAPQR) ,

Kolkata Member • Institute of Actuaries of India. Ex Member • American Statistical Association; • Institute of Actuaries, London.

DETAILS OF SUPERVISION OF RESEARCH WORK

Ph.D. Supervisions Completed : EIGHT

(i) Dr. Asok Kumar Nanda :“On Some Stochastic Order Relations and their Applications” , (Dec. 1998).

(Presently working as Professor at Indian Institute of Science, Education and Research, Kolkata) .

(ii) Dr. Sudesh Pundir : “Study of Inequality Measures and Related Inference ”(August, 2007).

(iii) Dr. Sukhbir Singh: “Estimation for Ultrastructural Measurement Error Models using Auxiliary Information” (June, 2012).

(iv) Dr. Monika Rani: “Statistical Analysis of Complex Coherent Systems”

(Aug., 2013)

(v) Dr. Neetu Singla: “Some Contributions to the Theory of Distributions” (March, 2014)

(vi) Dr. Rashmi Aggarwal “Smoothing and Estimation in Generalised Additive

Models” (September, 2014)

(vii) Dr. Harmanpreet Singh Kapoor “Some Applications of Statistics in

Actuarial Science” (Oct., 2014)

(viii) Dr. Pooja Soni: “Statistical Inference Using Quantiles” (Jan.,2015)

-Three Ph.D. theses submitted.

- Five students presently working towards Ph. D.

M.Phil Dissertations Supervised:

(i) Some Variants of Exponential Distribution (2011-12)

(ii) Estimation and Modelling in Survival Analysis (2010-11)

(iii) Accelerated Life Models (2006-07)

(iv) Time Series Analysis (2002-03)

(v) Directional Statistics (2001-02)

(vi) Renewal Processes (1997-98)

(vii) Stochastic Order Relations (1993-94)

(viii) A Note on Survival Under Some Shock Models (1988-89).

DETAILS OF RESEARCH WORK

TITLE OF Ph.D. THESIS

“On the functional equation

S(t + s) + S(t-s) = 2S(t)[I – 2S2(s/2)].”

PAPERS PUBLISHED: 1. Savita Jain, Kanchan Jain and Suresh Sharma

"Trivariate Generalized Non Linear mixed model with transformations for meta analysis of diagnostic accuracy"

Model Assisted Statistical Analysis, (2018), pp 73-83.

2. Azad Roshni, Suresh Sharma and Kanchan Jain "Mixed Effects Model for Ordered Categorical Data in Longitudinal Study

with Skew Normal Random Effects” International Journal of Statistics and Reliability Engineering

(IJSRE) (2017), pp 56-64. 3. Sukhmani Sidhu, Kanchan Jain and Suresh Sharma

Bayesian Estimation of Generalized Gamma Shared Frailty Model

Computational Statistics (2017), DOI 10.1007/s00180-017-0728-0 4. Pooja Soni, Isha Dewan and Kanchan Jain

Nonparametric Tests for Ordered Quantiles Statistical Papers (2017), pp 1-9, DOI 10.1007/s00362-016-0859-3

5. Savita Jain, Kanchan Jain and Suresh Sharma:

Generalized Lehmann Family For Meta Analysis Based Upon Summary

Receiver Operating Characteristic Curves

Discussiones Mathematicae: Probability & Statistics , 2016, Vol. 36 , Issue 1/2, p115-135

6. Harmanpreet Singh Kapoor, Kanchan Jain, Suresh Kumar Sharma Generalized Additive Model for Evaluation of Premium for Diabetic Patients, Journal of Advances in Applied Mathematics, Vol. 1, No. 3, July 2016, pp 160-174.

7. Rashmi Aggarwal, Suresh Kumar Sharma and Kanchan Jain “Proportional Hazard Regression Model with Bayesian Approach” Journal of Advanced Statistics , Volume 1, No. 1, March, 2016, pp 38-51

8. Kanchan Jain, Bhavna Kaushal and Suresh K. Sharma Testing the Difference of the ROC curves in Bi-Pareto model

Journal of Advanced Statistics ,Volume 1, No. 1, March, 2016, pp 17-24

9. Neetu Singla , Kanchan Jain and Suresh K. Sharma, Goodness Of Fit Tests And Power Comparisons For Weighted Gamma Distribution REVSTAT – Statistical Journal Volume 14, Number 1, February 2016, 29–48

10.

HarmanPreet Singh Kapoor and Kanchan Jain Properties of Future Lifetime Distributions and Estimation Hacattepe Journal of Mathematics and Statistics (2015), Doi: 10.15672/HJMS.201510514357

11. Monika Rani, Kanchan Jain and , Isha Dewan Estimation of Reliability for Parallel Networked Phased Mission Systems with Unobserved Subsystem Operational Times International Journal of Reliability, Quality and Safety Engineering Vol. 22, No. 3 (June, 2015), 1550011 (19 pages), World Scientific Publishing Company, DOI: 10.1142/S0218539315500114

12. Pooja Soni, Isha Dewan and Kanchan Jain Test for successive differences of quantiles Statistics and Probability Letters 97, (Feb., 2015), 1–8

13. Monika Rani, Isha Dewan and Kanchan Jain Estimation of Parameters for Phased Mission Systems-Parallel Network Advances in Reliability, Vol. 1, No. 1, December 2014

14. Kanchan Jain, Neetu Singla and R. D. Gupta A weighted version of Gamma distribution Discussiones Mathematicae: Probability and Statistics, 34 (2014), 89-111

15. HarmanPreet Singh Kapoor and Kanchan Jain “Distributional properties of Curtate Future Life Time” Journal of Probability and Statistical Science (2014), 12(2), 139-163

16. Suresh Sharma, Kanchan Jain and Neetu Singla “A selection procedure for selecting the least Increasing Failure Rate Average distribution”

Communications in Statistics (Theory and Methods) ,Vol. 44, Issue 9, (Sept., 2014), pp 1786-1796

17. Rashmi Aggarwal, Suresh Kumar Sharma and Kanchan Jain (2014): “Optimal Choice of Splines and Knots in TPSPLINE and TRANSREG

Procedures”, IOSR Journal of Mathematics (IOJR-JM), Vol 10(1), Ver II, pp 42-52 .

18. Kanchan Jain, Neetu Singla and Suresh Sharma “The Generalised Inverse Generalised Weibull Distribution and its

properties” Journal of Probability, Volume 2014 (2014), Article ID 736101, 11 pages

http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/736101

19. Bhavna Kaushal, Kanchan Jain and Suresh K. Sharma “Estimation of Area under Receiver Operating Characteristic Curve for Bi- Pareto and Bi-Two Parameter Exponential Distributions”

Open Journal of Statistics (2014), 4, pp 1-10.

20. Sukhbir Singh, Kanchan Jain and Suresh Sharma “Replicated measurement error model under exact linear Restrictions” Statistical Papers (2014) , 55, pp 253-274. DOI 10.1007/s00362-012-0469-7.

21. Suresh Kumar Sharma, Rashmi Aggarwal and Kanchan Jain “Fitting Generalized Additive Logistic Regression Model with GAM Procedure”

Journal of Mathematics and System Science (2013), 3 , pp 442-453.

22. Suresh Kumar Sharma, Rajesh Kumar, Rashmi Aggarwal, PVM Lakshmi, Kanchan Jain “The impact of temperature on mortality in Ludhiana City, India: A time series analysis” International journal of environmental sciences (2013), Volume 3, No 6, pp 2323-2338.

23. Kanchan Jain and HarmanPreet Singh Kapoor “Ageing Properties of Curtate Future Life Time” Sri Lankan Journal of Applied Statistics (2013) , Vol. (14-1), pp 55-84.

24. Pooja Soni, Isha Dewan and Kanchan Jain “Nonparametric estimation of Quantile Density Function” Computational Statistics and Data Analysis , 56 (2012), pp 3876-3886 .

25. Sukhbir Singh, Kanchan Jain and Suresh Sharma “Using stochastic prior information in consistent estimation of regression coefficients in replicated measurement error model”

Journal of Multivariate Analysis, 111 (2012), pp 198–212.

26. Neetu Singla, Kanchan Jain and Suresh Sharma “The Beta Generalised Weibull Distribution:Properties and Applications”

Reliability Engineering and System Safety (2012), 102, pp 5-15, doi:10.1016/j. ress.2012.02.003.

27. Isha Dewan and Kanchan Jain: “Joint reliability importance of series-parallel systems”

International Journal of Reliability and Applications, Vol. 12, No.2 (2011), pp 103-116.

28. HarmanPreet Singh Kapoor and Kanchan Jain “Premium evaluation for different loss distributions using utility theory” Discussiones Mathematicae: Probability and Statistics, 31 (2011),

pp 41-58.

29. Suresh Kumar Sharma, Kanchan Jain and Rashmi Aggarwal "Efficiency of Various Smoothers in Generalized Additive Models" In International Journal of Applied Mathematics, Vol. 24, No 5 (2011),

pp. 763-783.

30. Monika Rani, Kanchan Jain and , Isha Dewan “On Conditional Marginal and Conditional Joint Reliability Importance”. International Journal of Reliability, Quality and Safety Engineering,

Volume 18, No. 2 (2011), pp. 119-138.

31. Kanchan Jain, Sukhbir Singh and Suresh Sharma “Restricted Estimation in Multivariate Measurement Error Regression

Model”. Journal of Multivariate Analysis, 102, (2011), pp. 264-280.

32. Kanchan Jain

“Stochastic Comparison of Repairable Systems ” American Journal of Mathematical and Management Sciences (2009), Vol. 29, Nos. 3 & 4, 477-495.

33. Sangeeta Arora, Kanchan Jain and Sudesh Pundir “Moments of Lorenz Curve and Linear Measures of Inequality” Model Assisted Statistics and Applications (2007), Vol.1, No. 2, 59-70.

34. Sangeeta Arora, Kanchan Jain and Sudesh Pundir “ Inference for Absolute Lorenz Curve and Absolute Lorenz Ordering” Jl of Korean Statistical Society (Sept 2006), Vol.35, No. 3, pp 305-316.

35. Sangeeta Arora, Kanchan Jain and Sudesh Pundir “On Cumulated Mean Income Curve” Model Assisted Statistics and Applications (2006), Vol.1, No. 2, 107-114.

36. Sangeeta Arora and Kanchan Jain “Testing for Generalised Lorenz Dominance’’ , Statistical Methods & Applications (2006 ),Vol. 15, Issue 1, 75-88.

37. Kanchan Jain, Sangeeta Arora and Sudesh Pundir “Joint Confidence Intervals and Testing for Cumulated Mean Income Curve” Jl of Statistics and Applications , Jan.- March 2006, Volume 1, No.1, pp 121-134.

38. Kanchan Jain, Sangeeta Arora and Sudesh Pundir “Mean Of Lorenz Curve: Some Distributional Properties” Far East Jl of Mathematical Sciences, 17(2) 2005, 143-162.

39. Sudesh Pundir, Sangeeta Arora and Kanchan Jain “Bonferroni Curve and the Related Statistical Inference” Statistics and Probability Letters, 75 (July 2005), 140-150.

40. Asok K. Nanda and Kanchan Jain “Some Weighted Distribution Results On Univariate and Bivariate Cases” Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 77 (1999) pp. 169-188.

41. Asok K. Nanda, Kanchan Jain and Harshinder Singh “Preservation of Some Partial Orderings Under The Formation of Coherent Systems” Statistics and Probability Letters Vol.39 (August 1998), pp.123-131.

42. Asok K. Nanda and Kanchan Jain “A Note On Two new Ageing Properties” IAPQR Transactions On Reliability, Vol 21 (1996), No. 2.

43. Asok K. Nanda, Kanchan Jain and Harshinder Singh “Properties of Moments for s-order Equilibrium distributions” Journal of Applied Probability, Vol. 33 (1996) pp. 1108-1111.

44. Asok K. Nanda, Kanchan Jain and Harshinder Singh “On Closure of Some Partial Orderings under Mixtures” Journal of Applied Probability, Vol. 33 (1996) pp. 698-706.

45. Kanchan Jain and Asok Nanda “On Multivariate Weighted Distributions” Communications in Statistics (Theory and Methods), Vol. 24, No. 10 (1995), pp. 2517-2539.

46. Isha Bagai and Kanchan Jain “Improvement, Deterioration and Optimal Replacement Under Age- Replacement Policy with Minimal Repair” IEEE Transactions on Reliability, Vol. 43 Nov. (1994), pp 156-162.

47. Jayant V.Deshpande, H. Singh, Isha Bagai & Kanchan Jain “Some Partial Orders Describing Positive Ageing” Communications In Statistics (Stochastic Models), Vol. 6 No. 3 (1990), pp. 471-481.

48. Kanchan Jain, Harshinder Singh and Isha Bagai “Relaltions for Reliability Measures of Weighted Distributions” Communications in Statistics (Theory and Methods), Vol. 18 No.12 (1989), pp 4393 – 4412.

49. Harshinder Singh and Kanchan Jain “Preservation of Some Partial Orders Under Poisson Models” (as a short communication) Advances in Applied Probability, September 1989, Vol. 21 No.3, pp 713 – 716.

50. Kanchan Kumari and H.L. Vasudeva “On The Functional Equation

( ) ( ) ⎥

⎦

⎤⎢⎣

⎡⎟⎠

⎞⎜⎝

⎛−=−++

22)(2 2 ySIxSyxSyxS

Bulletin of Calcutta Math Society, Vol. 80, 1989, pp. 167 – 171.

51. Kanchan Kumari, Harshinder Singh and H.L. Vasudeva “On the functional Equation-

⎥⎦

⎤⎢⎣

⎡⎟⎠

⎞⎜⎝

⎛−=−++2

2)(2)()( 2 SSItSstSstS”

Glasnik Mathematicki, Vol. 23 (43), 1988, pp 45 – 71.

52. Kanchan Kumari, J.C.Parnami and H.L.Vasudeva

“On the Functional Equation - 0)(!)( =−Δ yfnxfny ” Mathematics Today, Vol. II, Dec. 1986, pp. 11-20.

PAPERS PUBLISHED IN PROCEEDINGS

• Monika, Isha Dewan and Kanchan Jain:

Joint Reliability Importance and Related Concepts for coherent systems: A Review Proceedings of AEROTECH 2008 (National seminar in Aerospace Technologies, Maintenance and Optimization, Chandigarh)

• Kanchan Jain and Sangeeta Arora

On Measures of Income Inequality

Proceedings of the 5th International Symposium On Optimization and Statistics, AMU, Dec. 28-30, 2002.

PAPERS SUBMITTED FOR PUBLICATION

(i) Neetu Singla, Kanchan Jain and Suresh Sharma:

The Log Generalised Inverse Generalised Weibull Distribution and

Regression Model

(ii) HarmanPreet Singh Kapoor , Kanchan Jain and Isha Dewan:

Test for comparing complete expectations of life of two groups

(iii) Savita Jain, Suresh Sharma and Kanchan Jain

Trivariate meta-analysis of diagnostic studies using various link functions accounting for prevalence and missing subjects

PAPERS TO BE SUBMITTED SHORTLY:

(i) Neetu Singla, Kanchan Jain and Suresh Sharma:

Goodness of Fit Tests for Beta Generalised Distribution

(ii) Monika Rani, Kanchan Jain and Isha Dewan

Estimation of parameters for a phased mission system: Series Network

(iii) Pooja Soni, Isha Dewan and Kanchan Jain :

Nonparametric Multiple Comparison Methods for Quantiles

(iv) Savita Jain, Kanchan Jain and Suresh Sharma:

Using Copulas for Bayesian Meta Analysis

(v) HarmanPreet Singh Kapoor and Kanchan Jain

Evaluation of Ruin Probability for Benktander Gibrat Distribution

(vi) Sukhbir Singh, Kanchan Jain and Suresh Sharma

Stein Rule Estimation of Regression Coefficients in Replicated Measurement Error Regression Model

PAPER REVIEWING:

• Mathematical Reviews of American Mathematical Society. • Computational Statistics and Data Analysis • Statistical Methodology • Journal of Multivariate Analysis • Insurance: Mathematics and Economics • Statistics and Probability Letters • Communications in Statistics – Theory and Methods • Communications in Statistics - Simulation and Computation • Statistical Papers • Hacettepe Journal of Mathematics and Statistics • Metron • IIE Transactions on Healthcare Systems Engineering

• Inter Stat • American Journal of Mathematical and Management Sciences • Journal Of Indian Statistical Association • Indian Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics. • Proceedings of SCRA FIM XI • Indian Association for Productivity, Quality and Reliability (IAPQR) ,

Kolkata

THESIS EVALUATION • Circular Statistics: An Application to Atmospheric and Health Sciences (University of Gauhati, Assam) • Some Contribution to Actuarial Science: A Computational Approach

(Jalgaon University, Maharashtra) • Contribution to the study of random variables associated with operations on

some important Data Structure (Nagpur University)

• Reliability Modeling and Analysis of Parallel Unit Systems Subject to Maximum Operation and Repair Times (MDU, Rohtak)

• Some Optimum Accelerated Life test Sampling Plans (University of Delhi) • On Some Sampling Strategies and Their Optimality (Lucknow University) • Modelling Charts for Queueing Systems (Nagpur University). • “Some Optimum Partially and Fully Accelerated Life Testing Models in

Reliability” (Delhi University). • “An Information Theoretic Approach to Estimation” (Jammu University). • "Novel approaches for critical path analysis in probabilistic and fuzzy

environments" (Gitam University, Vishakhapatnam), • “Comparison of Imputation Methods in Clinical trials” (Agra University).

SUMMER PROJECTS SUPERVISION:

• Gaurav Aggarwal, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Mohali for Project Report Titled: “Markov Jump Processes”, July, 2012 .

• Arushi Khattri , Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Mohali for Project Report July, 2012.

• Vaishali Singh, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Mohali for Project Report on Continuous Stochastic Processes to be submitted in July, 2017.

• Megha Damiya, Central University of Rajasthan for Project Report on “Regression Tools in R” to be submitted in July, 2017.

Other Achievements

• Contributed a Chapter titled “Phased Mission Systems: Modelling and Reliability” for the book “ Modelling and Simulation Based Analysis in Reliability Engineering”, CRC Press.

• Content Reviewer for 15 modules of the Course “Statistical Applications in Environmental Sciences” of e-Pathshala.

• Successfully completed NPTEL online course “Introduction to R Software” with a consolidated score of 95% (100% score in Online Assignments) and Elite Certification.

• Chief Guest on Statistics Day Celebrations by NSSO, FDO, Chandigarh and Mohali on June 29, 2017.

• Visited Department of Statistics, University of Calcutta, Kolkata from March 24-29, 2017 as a Visiting Scientist under UGC (DSA) scheme.

• Nominated as an expert of Selection Committee by Chancellor of G.B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar.

• Visited Department of Statistics, Cochin University of Science and Technology , Cochin from March 8-14, 2014 as a Visiting Scientist under UGC DSA scheme.

• Chancellor’s Nominee for Professor’s selection at Pt Ravishankar Shukla University, Raipur, Chhattisgarh in Nov. 2012.

• Member of selection committees of some universities. • Expert for the finalization of the Hindi version of Conceptual Explanation of

Evaluation terms taken up by National Testing Service-India, Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysore .

• Executive member of Indian Society of Probability and Statistics from April, 2010 – Dec. 2012.

• Member of selection committees of some universities; • Examiner and paper setter for various universities viz Nagpur, Punjabi,

Jammu, MDU Rohtak, GNDU Amritsar, Gitam University Vishakhapatnam , Meerut and Kurukshetra .

• Visited Deptt. Of Statistics, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada from July 2-4, 2003 for research discussions.

COORDINATOR/MEMBER OF ORGANIZING COMMITTEES OF WORKSHOPS/CONFERENCES • Member of Advisory Committee for CHASCON XII held from Feb. 12-14,

2018 at Panjab University, Chandigarh • Member of organizing committee of International Workshop on

Reliability Theory and Survival Analysis held from Nov. 20-22, 2017 at Applied Statistics Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata.

• Member of Advisory Committee for CHASCON XI held from March 9-11 , 2017.

• Member of organizing committee of International Workshop on Reliability Theory and Survival Analysis held from Nov. 3-5, 2016 at Department of Statistics, Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune

• Member of International Advisory Committee of Second International Conference on Mathematical Techniques in Engineering Applications (ICMTEA2016) held at Graphic Era University, Dehradun from April 29-30, 2016.

• Member of Advisory Committee and one of Sectional Presidents of Mathematical Sciences Division for CHASCON X held from Feb 29 - March 2, 2016.

• Coordinator of Workshop On Reliability Theory and Survival Analysis organized by Deptt. of Statistics, PU Chandigarh from Nov. 4-6, 2015.

• Co-Coodinator for National Conference on Advances in Theoretical and Applied Statistics, organized by Deptt. of Statistics, PU Chandigarh from Feb 12-13, 2015.

• Workshop on Reliability Theory and Survival Analysis held at Deptt of Statistics, Cochin University of Science and Techology, Cochin from Dec. 31, 2013 – Jan 2, 2014.

• XIXth International Conference of Forum for Interdisciplinary Mathematics, SCRA held at Deptt of Statistics, Panjab University, Chandigarh from Dec. 15-17, 2012 .

• Workshop on Reliability Theory and Survival Analysis (December 3-5, 2012), Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur.

• International Conference on Frontiers of Statistics and its Applications (Dec. 21-23, 2012) In Conjunction with XXXII Convention of Indian Society for Probability and Statistics (ISPS) held at Deptt. Of Statistics, Pondicherry University, Puducherry.

• XXXI Annual Convention of Indian Society for Probability and Statistics (ISPS) and International Conference on Statistics, Probability and Related Areas held at Deptt of Statistics, Cochin University of Science and Technology, Cochin from Dec. 19-22, 2011.

• International conference on development and applications of Statistics in emerging areas of science & technology (icdaseast) and XXX annual convention of Indian Society for Probability and Statistics (ISPS) held at

Department of Statistics, University of Jammu, Jammu along with A workshop on modern tools in applied Statistics from Dec 4-10, 2010.

PARTICIPATION IN CONFERENCES OUTSIDE INDIA

(I) Delivered a talk on “Bayesian Estimation of Generalized Gamma Shared Frailty Model” at Tenth International Conference on Mathematical Methods in Reliability held at Grenoble Institute of Technology, Grenoble, France from July 3-6, 2017.

(ii) Delivered an Invited talk at 2014 International Indian Statistical Association Conference On Research Innovations in Statistics for Health, Education, Technology, and Society held at Riverside, California ,USA from July 11-13, 2014;

(iii) Participated in SCRA 2006 FIM XIII International Conference at Tomar-Lisbon, Portugal from Sept. 1-4, 2006 and presented a paper “On Comparison of Two Repairable Systems”;

(iv) Participated in Twelfth International Conference of Forum for Interdiscplinary Mathematics (SCMA 2005) at Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama, U.S.A. from Dec. 2-4, 2005 and delivered a talk on Absolute Lorenz Curve;

(v) Attended “Seventh Purdue International Symposium On Statistics” held at Deptt. Of Statistics, Purdue University, West Layfette, IN (USA) from June 19-24, 2003.

PARTICIPATION IN SEMINARS, CONFERENCES AND REFRESHER COURSES IN INDIA

• Attended “National Conference on Technological Empowerment of Women” organised by NASI at Vigyan Bhavan, Delhi from March 8-9, 2018.

• Delivered an invited talk “ Shared Frailty Model with Log Skew Normal Frailties” and Chaired the session titled “ Analysis of Lifetime Data” in IISA International Conference on Statistics from Dec. 27-30, 2017 held at Hyderabad.

• Chaired a session at International Workshop on Reliability Theory and Survival Analysis held from Nov. 20-22, 2017 at Applied Statistics Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata.

• Participated in The Second conference and workshop on Statistical Methods in Finance held at Chennai Mathematical Institute, Chennai from Dec. 18-22, 2016

• Chaired a session at International Workshop on Reliability Theory and Survival Analysis held from Nov. 3-5,2016 at : Department of Statistics, Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune

• Chaired a session at International Conference on Managing Responsible Research in the Human Sciences and Information Management from Aug 12-13, 2016 Organized by London School of Management Education and A.C. Joshi Library, Panjab University , Chandigarh

• Attended Chandigarh Science Congress CHASCON X held at Panjab University held from Feb 29 - March 2, 2016.

• Chaired a session and Delivered an invited talk at ICSTC-2015, International Conference on Statistics for twenty-first century from Dec. 17-19, 2015 Organized by Department of Statistics, University of Kerala, Trivandrum, India.

• Delivered an invited talk and chaired a session at 2015 International Indian Statistical Association Conference Celebrating Statistical Innovation and Impact in a World of Big & Small Data with Co-organizer: Department of Statistics, Savitribai Phule Pune University from December 20-24, 2015.

• National Conference on Recent Trends In Statistics held from Feb. 21-23, 2015 at Maharishi Dayanand University, Rohtak.

• Attended Chandigarh Science Congress held at Panjab University from Feb 25-27, 2015.

• Chaired a session and Delivered an invited talk at National Conference on Recent Trends In Statistics held from Feb. 21-23, 2015 at Maharishi Dayanand University, Rohtak.

• Attended National Conference on Advances in Theoretical and Applied Statistics, organized by Dept of Statistics, PU Chandigarh from Feb 12-13, 2015.

• Participated in CHASCON 14 held at Panjab University from Feb 26-28, 2014

• Participated in XIXth International Conference of Forum for Interdisciplinary Mathematics, SCRA held at Deptt of Statistics, Panjab University, Chandigarh from Dec. 15-17, 2012;

• Attended CHASCON 12 held at Panjab University from Feb 26-28, 2012; • Attended “National Conference on Advances and Applications in

Statistics” held at Deptt of Statistics, Panjab University, Chandigarh from Feb 20-21, 2012.

• Delivered an invited talk at National Conference on Recent Developments in Reliability and survival analysis held at Deptt of Statistics, Pondicherry University, Puducherry from Feb 2-3, 2012.

• Attended CHASCON 11 held at Panjab University from Feb 26-28, 2011; • Attended CHASCON 10 held at Panjab University from March 19-20, 2010;

• Delivered an invited talk in the symposium on Stochastic Orderings and Applications in International Conference on Statistics, Probability,

Operations Research , Computer Science and Allied Areas (jointly with VIII International IISA meeting and XXIX Annual convention of ISPS) held at Department of Statistics, Andhra university, Vishakhapatnam from Jan 4-8, 2010;

• Organised a symposium on “Reliability and Life Testing” in IMST 2009-FIM XVIII held from Aug 2-4, 2009 at Jaypee University of Information Technology, Waknaghat, Himachal Pradesh;

• Attended CHASCON 09 held at Panjab University from Feb 26-28, 2009; • Attended CHASCON 08 held at Panjab University from March 14-15, 2008; • Attended “Diamond Jubilee Symposium on Statistical Techniques :Recent

Trend and Advances” held at Deptt of Statistics, Panjab University from March 18-19, 2008 .

• Presented the paper “Measuring Income inequality in case of Intersecting Lorenz curves” at International Conference on Statistics & Applications in OR, Management/Life Sciences in Conjunction with XXVII Annual Convention of ISPS held at Nagpur from Jan.10-12, 2008.

• Attended “Hyderabad Symposium in Probability and Statistics” at Deptt. of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad from Dec. 17-19, 2007;

• Delivered an invited talk “On Cumulated Mean Income Curve” at IISA, Joint Statistical Meeting and International Conference on Statistics, Probability and Related Areas organized by Deptt. of Statistics, Cochin University of Science and Technology, Cochin from Jan 2-5, 2007;

• Attended “7th Global Conference of Actuaries” held at FICCI, New Delhi from Feb.15-16 ,2005;

• Delivered an invited talk on “Bonferroni Curve and related inference” at Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur from Jan.4-6, 2005;

• Participated in XIth International Conference of Forum for Interdisciplinary Mathematics, SCRA2004 held at Lucknow from Dec.27-29, 2004;

• Attended “6th Global Conference of Actuaries” held at FICCI, New Delhi from Feb.18-19,2004;

• Participated in Indian Science Congress held at Panjab University, Chandigarh from Jan. 2-8, 2004;

• Attended “5th Global Conference of Actuaries” held at FICCI, New Delhi from Feb.18-19, 2003;

• Delivered a talk on “Measures of Income Inequalities” at 5th International Symposium on Optimization and Statistics held at Deptt. Of Statistics and Operations Research, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh from Dec. 28-30,2002;

• Delivered an invited talk on “Reversed Hazard Rate ordering for Coherent systems: A Review” at a Seminar on Reliability Theory & Its Applications held at Deptt. Of Statistics, Poona University, Pune from June 21-23, 2001;

• Attended and presented a paper titled “Lorenz-Gini Ratio: Distributional Properties” at the International conference on Recent Developments in Statistics & Probability & their Applications organized by International Indian Statistical Association (IISA) and other Statistical organizations from Dec. 30-Jan. 2, 2001 held at Indian International Centre, New Delhi.

PARTICIPATION IN WORKSHOPS • Attended Workshop on Financial Statistics with R on Dec. 18, 2016 at

Chennai Mathematical Institute, Chennai. • Attended Workshop on Reliability and Survival Analysis at Deptt. of Statistics,

Panjab University, Chandigarh from Nov. 4-6, 2015. • Delivered an invited talk and attended VI-MSS Workshop on

Environmental Statistics at Indian Statistical institute, Kolkata from March 2-4, 2015.

• Attended Workshop on Structural Equation Modeling (SEM): Basics and Applications” organized by IBS, Hyderabad from Feb. 5-6, 2015

• Attended Workshop on Reliability and Survival Analysis at Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur from Dec. 3-5, 2012.

• Participated in “National workshop on Mathematical Modeling & Analysis of Financial Data” held from Sept. 24-29, 2012 at Deptt of Statistics, Poona University, Pune and delivered two talks on “Value at Risk” and “Credibility Theory”.

• Attended Workshop on Reliability and Survival Analysis at Indian Statistical Institute , Kolkata from Nov. 23-25, 2011.

• Attended Workshop on Reliability and Survival Analysis at Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai from Nov. 25-27, 2010.

• Participated in National workshop on Bio-Statistics and Official statistics from Dec. 21-22, 2010 held at Panjab University, Chandigarh.

• Attended SPSS 16.0 Faculty development Programme organized by SPSS South Asia and Deptt. of Statistics, PU, Chandigarh on Aug. 21 and 22, 2008.

• Attended a Workshop on “Financial Mathematics” on Jan 6, 2007 organized by International Indian Statistical Association at Cochin.

• Attended a Workshop on Solid Waste Management organized by Academic Staff College, Panjab University, Chandigarh from Feb. 13-14, 2006.

• Attended a workshop on “Survival Analysis” at Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute, Lucknow on Dec.b26, 2004.

• Attended a “Workshop On Parallel /Super Computing ” held at Deptt. of Computer Science and Applications, Panjab University, Chandigarh from Feb 24-March 1, 2003.

• Attended a “Workshop On Network Troubleshooting” held at Deptt. of Computer Science and Applications, Panjab University, Chandigarh from Feb 10-11,2003.

• Attended a “Workshop on Coding Theory, Cryptography and Discrete Maths” held at Deptt. Of Mathematics, Panjab University, Chandigarh from Dec. 2-14, 2002.

Invited Talks/ Lectures Delivered • Delivered two talks on Basics of Statistics Using SPSS during National

Workshop on Research Methodology at MM College of Pharmacy, MM University, Mullana (Haryana) on Dec. 4 and 7, 2017.

• Delivered an invited talk on “Contributions of Prof. Mahanobis” at a function organized by National Sample Survey Organization, FDO, Chandigarh on June 29, 2017 (Statistics Day).

• Delivered an invited lecture on “Administrative Statistics” at National Sample Survey Organization, Mohali on June 29, 2017 (Statistics Day).

• Delivered an invited talk at Center of Woman Studies, Panjab University, Chandigarh on May 22 , 2017.

• Delivered an invited talk at Department of Statistics, Institute of Sciences, Nagpur on Feb. 11, 2017.

• Delivered an invited talk at Department of Statistics, Nagpur University, Nagpur on Feb. 11, 2017.

• Delivered Lectures on Logistic Regression during two SPSS workshops held at Deptt of Statistics, PU, Chandigarh in December, 2016 and Jan., 2017.

• Delivered Two invited talks on Parametric Testing at National Institute of Technical Teachers Training and Research, Sector 26 , Chandigarh on Jan. 14, 2016.

• Delivered Lectures on Logistic Regression and Survival Analysis during two SPSS workshops held at Deptt of Statistics, PU, Chandigarh in December, 2015.

• Delivered two invited talks on “Statistical Tools for Monitoring and Evaluation” and “Indicators of Social Development in India” at a function organized by Department of Economics and Statistics, Haryana at Haryana Niwas, Chandigarh on June 29, 2015 (Statistics Day).

• Delivered an invited lecture on “Social Development in India” at National Sample Survey Organization, Chandigarh on June 29, 2015 (Statistics Day).

• Delivered an invited expert lecture on SPSS at National Institute of Technical Teachers Training and Research, Sector 26 , Chandigarh on May 22, 2015

• Delivered two invited lectures on the topics “SPSS for Data Analysis” in the ICSSR sponsored 10-days National Workshop in Research Methodology for Ph.D. students in Social Sciences on March 27, 2015 organized at Guru Nanak College for Girls, Muktsar during March 21-30, 2015.

• Delivered a lecture at Department of Life Long Learning and Extension, Panjab University, Chandigarh on Dec. 15, 2014.

• Delivered a lecture at Department of Statistics, University of Kashmir, Srinagar on April 22, 2014.

• Delivered six lectures in Academic Staff College, Chandigarh for Short Term Training Course for Research Scholars during April 1-4, 2014.

• Delivered Lectures on Logistic Regression and Survival Analysis during SPSS workshop held at Deptt of Statistics, PU, Chandigarh in July-Aug., 2013 and December, 2014.

• Delivered two talks in SPSS workshops held in 2011 and 2012 • S.D.College, Sector 32, Chandigarh (Feb 22, 2012) (Logistic Regression) • Deptt of Statistics, Sri Venkateswara Tirupati University, Tirupati (Feb 1,

2012)(Joint Reliability Importance) • The Punjab state council for Science and Technology, Chandigarh (April 25,

2011)(Basics and applications of Statistics) • SGGS Khalsa College, Chandigarh (March 31, 2011)(SPSS) • Acted as a resource person for the UGC sponsored Refresher Course in

Mathematics and Statistics held in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Panjab University, Chandigarh during Dec., 2010.

• Delivered Lecture in “Diamond Jubilee Workshop on Statistical Techniques for Social Scientists” on March 20, 2008.

• Acted as a resource person for the UGC sponsored Refresher Course in Mathematics and Statistics held in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Panjab University, Chandigarh, during 18th March – 7th April, 2005.

• Delivered lectures on Probability Distributions at the UGC sponsored Refresher Course in Mathematics and Statistics held in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics during Jan. – Feb. 2003.

• Delivered lectures on Probability UGC sponsored Refresher Course in Mathematics and Statistics held in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, P.U. Chandigarh during October- November 2001.

• Delivered lectures on Biostatistics at College of Nursing, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh from August-October 2001.

COURSES TAUGHT AT UNDERGRADUATE & POSTGRADUATE LEVEL

• Probability • Actuarial Statistics • Distribution Theory • Statistical Methods • Estimation and

Testing of hypotheses

• Linear Inference • Stochastic Processes • Queueing Theory • Reliability Theory • Survival Analysis • Bio-Statistics • Shock Models

• Renewal Theory • Operations Research • Design and Analysis

of Sample Surveys • Real Analysis • Measure Theory