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General Information
| Name | Arghya Mukherjee |
| Languages | English, Bengali |
Education
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2026 (tentative) PhD in Statistics
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India - Grade (8.78 out of 10).
- Coursework.
- Probability Theory (Core).
- Statistical Inference (Core).
- Advanced Calculus (Core).
- Asymptotic Statistics (Elective).
- Robust Statistical Methods (Elective).
- Probabilistic Machine Learning (Elective).
- Spatial Statistics (Elective).
- Markov chain Monte Carlo (Elective).
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2020 MSc in Statistics
University of Calcutta, India - Grade 72.5%.
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2018 BSc in Statistics
University of Calcutta, India - Grade 72.4%.
Teaching Experience
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Lab Instructor and Grader
- MTH-422 (Introduction to Bayesian Analysis).
- MTH-441 (Linear Regression and ANOVA).
- MTH-442 (Time Series Analysis).
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Grader
- MTH-209 (Data Science lab-2).
- MTH-208 (Data Science lab-1).
- MSO-201 (Probability and Statistics).
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2021 Statistical Trainee
Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata. -
2021 Associate Fellow
Vidhi Legal Policy - Statistical Modeller for efficient survey design.
Summer Research Fellow
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2019 Detection Algorithm for Anisotropic Stochastic Wave Background.
- An astrostatistics project to detect sparse signals in the Gravitational Wave Background in the presence of heterogeneous noise.
Honors and Awards
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2025 - Junior Travel Award, sponsored by ISBA in BayesComp-2025, Singapore.
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2025 - Best Paper Award (2nd), International Conference on Recent Advancements in the Techniques of the Bayesian Paradigm, Banaras Hindu University.
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2019 - Best Poster Award – National Seminar on Sample Survey, jointly organized by Calcutta Statistical Association and the Department of Statistics, University of Calcutta.
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2015-2020 - DST-INSPIRE Scholar (based on top 1% percentiles in board exams in high school), sponsored by the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India.
Research Interests
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Spatial Statistics (Theory and Methods).
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Markov chain Monte Carlo (Computation and Theory).
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Bayesian Nonparametrics (Theory and Methods).
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Statistical Machine Learning (Theory and Methods).
Workshops and Conferences
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2025 - Invited Attendee at BIRS Workshop on Uncertainty quantification of large Bayesian models, CMI, Chennai, India.
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2025 - Student Paper Competition on International Conference on Recent Advancements in the Techniques of the Bayesian Paradigm, Banaras Hindu University.
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2024 - Contributed talk at IISA-2024, Kochi, India, organized by the International Indian Statistical Association.
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2022 - Poster presentation at IISA-2022, IISc Bangalore, India, organized by the International Indian Statistical Association.