CV

General Information

Name Arghya Mukherjee
Languages English, Bengali

Education

  • 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).
  • 2020
    MSc in Statistics
    University of Calcutta, India
    • Grade 72.5%.
  • 2018
    BSc in Statistics
    University of Calcutta, India
    • Grade 72.4%.

Teaching Experience

  • Lab Instructor and Grader
    • MTH-422 (Introduction to Bayesian Analysis).
    • MTH-441 (Linear Regression and ANOVA).
    • MTH-442 (Time Series Analysis).
  • Grader
    • MTH-209 (Data Science lab-2).
    • MTH-208 (Data Science lab-1).
    • MSO-201 (Probability and Statistics).
  • 2021
    Statistical Trainee
    Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata.
  • 2021
    Associate Fellow
    Vidhi Legal Policy
    • Statistical Modeller for efficient survey design.

Summer Research Fellow

  • 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

  • 2025
    • Junior Travel Award, sponsored by ISBA in BayesComp-2025, Singapore.
  • 2025
    • Best Paper Award (2nd), International Conference on Recent Advancements in the Techniques of the Bayesian Paradigm, Banaras Hindu University.
  • 2019
    • Best Poster Award – National Seminar on Sample Survey, jointly organized by Calcutta Statistical Association and the Department of Statistics, University of Calcutta.
  • 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

  • Spatial Statistics (Theory and Methods).
  • Markov chain Monte Carlo (Computation and Theory).
  • Bayesian Nonparametrics (Theory and Methods).
  • Statistical Machine Learning (Theory and Methods).

Workshops and Conferences

  • 2025
    • Invited Attendee at BIRS Workshop on Uncertainty quantification of large Bayesian models, CMI, Chennai, India.
  • 2025
    • Student Paper Competition on International Conference on Recent Advancements in the Techniques of the Bayesian Paradigm, Banaras Hindu University.
  • 2024
    • Contributed talk at IISA-2024, Kochi, India, organized by the International Indian Statistical Association.
  • 2022
    • Poster presentation at IISA-2022, IISc Bangalore, India, organized by the International Indian Statistical Association.