Dr. M. MANOHARAN Professor & Member Syndicate Department of Statistics, University of Calicut, Malappuram (Dist.), Kerala

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Dr. M. MANOHARAN Professor & Member Syndicate Department of Statistics, University of Calicut, Malappuram (Dist.), Kerala – 673 635 (India). Phone: 0494-2407340, 341 (O), 91-9447424043 (Cell) Email:[email protected] [email protected]

D/B : 30-05-1963. Residence: ‘Krishnapadam’, Thenhipalam P.O. Malappuram (Dist.),Kerala – 673 636. Phone: +91-494-2403403; +91-9447424043 (Cell).

Academic Qualifications:-  M.Sc. (Statistics) First Rank with Distinction Cochin University of Science & Technology, 1983-85.  Ph.D., Cochin University of Science & Technology (1990), NBHM Fellow (Thesis title: ‘Analysis of some Stochastic Models in Inventories & Queues’) Supervisor: Prof.(Dr.) A. Krishnamoorthy  Post-Doctoral Research, University of Sheffield, U.K. 1997-98, Commonwealth Fellow (Topic: ‘Stochastic Models in Reliability’)  Post-Doctoral Research, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada, May-Aug.2001. (Topic: ‘Reliability theory’)  Post-Doctoral Research, University of Calicut, India, 2006-2009. UGC Research Awardee, Topic: ‘Identifiability in queueing models’.

Visits Abroad : Britain, Scotland, USA, Canada, Israel, Malaysia and Singapore.

Awards & Honours:

 Wazir Hassan Abdi Endowment Prize from Cochin University, 1985.  NBHM Award for research, 1985 (India)  Commonwealth Fellowship tenable at UK, 1997.  Post-doctoral Fellowship at Dalhousie University, Canada, 2001.  UGC Research Award, 2006.  Appointed as the UGC SWAYAM Coordinator (USC) at the University of Calicut w.e,f. 21.01.2018  Nominated to the National Collegium of Assessors of the National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC), Bengaluru, India, March 2018.

Previous Experience:

 Research Fellow at TIFR, Bangalore & CUSAT, 1985-‘89.  Research Associate at University of Pune, 1989-90.  Lecturer in Statistics, Panjab University Chandigarh, 1990.  Visiting Research Associate, University of Sheffield, U.K, 1997-‘98.  Lecturer (since 26-12-90), Sr. Lecturer (since 29-04-95) Reader (since 29-04-1999) & Professor (since 29-04-2007) Department of Statistics, University of Calicut, India. (Completed 14 years in the UGC pay scale Rs. 37400-67000, on Stage-5 with AGP Rs.10000 & New scale of Academic Level 14 with rationalized entry pay of Rs.144200/-)

1 Educational Administrative Experience (10 years plus):  Headed the Department of Statistics, University of Calicut from 01/02/97 to 30/06/97; 16/04/1999 to 25/04/2001; 01-01-2004 to 15-10-2006 and another term from 27-10-2012 to 03/12/2014 (Total: 7 Years plus).  The Registrar (In full additional charge), University of Calicut from 23.05.2019 to 20.09.2019 (4 months)  Coordinator/Convener of Choice-Based Credit Semester System (CCSS), Post-graduate Programmes, University of Calicut from 22-10.2009 to 13-12-2012 (3 years); another term 26.08.2016 to 20.12.2019 (3 years).  Director IQAC (Internal Quality Assurance Cell), University of Calicut from 01.04.2017 to 19.12.2019 (2 years & 8 months)

Teaching Experience : 30 yrs. at PG-level & 1 yr. at UG-level Research Guidance: Ph. D. Degree: Awarded Degree - 13 (Thirteen); Ongoing – 8 M.Phil.Degree: Awarded Degree - 10; In progress- 2 . External Examiner for Ph.D. Thesis : 20 (Twenty).

Professional Affiliation  Life member of International Indian Statistical Association (IISA)  Life member of Indian Society for Probability and Statistics (ISPS).  Life member of Indian Statistical Association (ISA).  Life member of Kerala Statistical Association (KSA).  Member of Indian Poultry Science Association (IPSA).  Member of International Society for Business and Industrial Statistics (ISBIS/ ISI)  Gnedenko e-Forum- An International Group on Reliability.

Membership in University Academic Bodies:

 Elected member of the Syndicate, University of Calicut w.e.f. 07.06.2019  Elected member of the Senate, University of Calicut from the constituency of the teachers of the University (2009-2011, 2013-2017 and w.e.f. 07.03.2019).  P.G. Board of Studies in Statistics of (i) University of Calicut (ii) University of Mysore (Composite) (iii) University of Madras (iv) Kannur University (2 years w.e.f. 01.07.2008 and 2 years w.e.f. 02.07.2013, 2 years w.e.f. 27.11.2015) (v) Mahatma Gandhi University and (vi) Cochin University of Science & Technology (w.e.f. 25.07.2013 for a period of 4 years and another term from 2017 onwards) (vii) Mangalore University (from June 2018 for a period of three years) (viii) Kerala University of Fisheries and Occean studies (KUFOS, Kochi) (two terms w.e.f. 25.04.2015).  School Board in Mathematical Sciences, Pondicherry University (from 19.06.2017 to 30.06.2020).  Member, PG Board of Studies in Mathematics and Statistics, St. Joseph College (Autonomous) Devagiri (2015+).  U.G. Board of Studies in Statistics of- Kannur University and Periyar University, T. N.  The Academic Council of – Cochin University and University of Calicut.  The Faculty of Science of CUSAT, Kannur University and University of Calicut  P.G. Board of Examiners of various Universities in India (PG BoE in Statistics-Mangalore University, CUSAT, Statistics/ Demography-University of Kerala).  External examiner in the BoE in Statistics constituted for PG/ M.Phil. Degree examinations during 2014-15 of Mysore University.  P.G. Board of Examiners in Statistics of St. Thomas College (Autonomous)-Thrissur (2014+), St. Joseph College Devagiri (Autonomous)-Kozhikode(2014+)., Farook College (Autonomous)-Kozhikode (2015+). 2  Member Internal Quality Assurance Cell (IQAC), University of Calicut (w.e.f. 31.05.2010).  Doctoral Committee in Statistics of Kannur University.  Member in the BoE in Statistics for K-SET 2011 &2013 examinations of Karnataka State.  Member BoE in Ph. D. course work in Statistics, Mangalore University.  Member, Planning Board, University of Calicut.  RUSA Co-ordinator at University of Calicut, 2016-17.  Member RUSA Board of Governors, UoC w.e.f. 06.06.2017.  Research Advisory Council, University of Calicut w.e.f. 13.06.2017.  Academic Advisory Committee of SWAYAM Prabha DTH Channel-08 assigned to the EMMRC, University of Calicut w.e.f. 16.09.2017.  Served as an External Expert for the Academic Audit of the Department of Statistics, CUSAT conducted on 25.01.2018  Acted as a member in Administrative Audit Committee of SREE SANKARACHARYA UNIVERSITY OF SANSKRIT, KALADY in 2019.

Referee Work:

. Handbook of Statistics volumes edited by C.R. Rao & D. N. Shanbhag. (Elsevier Publications, The Netherlands) . Communications in Statistics . Journal of Indian Statistical Association . Statistical Methods . Opsearch . Indian Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics . Journal of Quality Technology & Quantitative Management (QTQM) . Journal of Kerala Statistical Association. . Journal of Probability and Statistical Science . Applied Mathematics Letters (Elsevier) . Reliability Engineering and System Safety (Elsevier) . Applied Mathematical Modelling (Elsevier) . Mathematical and Computer Modelling (Elsevier). . Executive Editor of Vimala International Research Journal, 2012+. . Statistics and Probability Letters . Mathematical Journal for Interdisciplinary Sciences (ISSN NO 2278 9561). . Journal of the Indian Society for Probability and Statistics. . ProbStat Forum-An e-journal in Probability, Statistics and Optimization.

Content Editor for (i) 28 e-content modules on ‘Probability Theory and Optimization’ in the subject Mathematics for the CEC as part of NME-ICT project of MHRD during the academic year 2010-12. (ii) 12 e-content modules in the subject ‘Statistical Bioinformatics’ for the CEC during the academic year 2013-15. (iii) in the subject Mathematics (Course: Foundations of Mathematical Statistics) for the CEC of the UGC as part of Massive Open Online Course (MOOC, SWAYAM platform) project of MHRD during the academic year 2017-18, facilitated by the EMMRC, University of Calicut.

Books/Chapters Authored: Chapter-15 : 'Departures and related Characteristics in Queueing Models' (jointly with M.H. Alamatsaz and D.N. Shanbhag), Handbook of Statistics , Vol-21, 557-572, (2003) Elsevier Science B.V., Cited in MR1973554 2004d:60241) 60K25 68M20 90B22 .

3 National/International conferences attended: 92

Instructional courses (Orientation/ Refresher/ Summer Schools) attended: 8

Research Interest: Stochastic Models in Queues, Inventory and Reliability; Phase type distribution; Survival Analysis, Longitudinal Analysis and Inferential problems associated with all of these topics, Supply Chain Processes and Official Statistics.

Research Publications in National/International Journals: 78

List of Journals include:

Cahiers Centre Études Rech. Opér.(Belgium); Opsearch; Internat. J. Inform. Management Sci.; Optimization; Adv. in Appl. Prob.; Prob. in the Engg. and Informational Sci.; Journal of Indian Statistical Association ; Stochastic Modelling and Applications; Indian J.of Poult. Sci.; Statistical Methods; Advances and Applications in Statistics, International Journal of Statistics and Management System; IAPQR Transactions; ProbStat Forum- an e-journal in Probability, Statistics & Optimization; Bulletin of Kerala Mathematical Association; Reliability Theory & Applications; Statistical Methodology; Journal of Statistics: Advances in Theory and Applications; Journal of Statistics & Management Systems; Journal of Probability and Statistical Science; Advances and Applications in Statistics; Journal of Probability and Statistical Science; Advances in Operations Research; Communications in Statistics Theory and Methods; International Journal of Statistics and Reliability Engineering; Statistics and Applications

RECENT RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS OF Dr. M.MANOHARAN

Published In National / International Journals:- 1. 'Markovian Queueing System with Discouraged Arrivals and Self-Regulatory Servers' (2016), (jointly with K.V. Abdul Rasheed), Advances in Operations Research, Vol. 2016, Article ID: 2456135, 11 pages, http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/2456135. ISSN:1687-9147E- ISSN:1687-9155, Scopus Indexed, CiteScore : 0.8

2. ‘Beta Half Logistic Distribution – A New Probability Model for Life Time Data’ (2016), (jointly with Joby K. Jose), Journal of Statistics and Management Systems, Vol.19 (4), 2016 , pp587-604, pISSN:0972-0510, eISSN:2169-0014 Taylor & Francis online http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09720510.2015.1103457. Web of Science ESC Indexed.

3. ‘Evaluation of System Performance Measures of Multi-State Degraded System with Minimal Repair’ (2017), (jointly with Vidhya G. Nair). Reliability Theory & Applications, No.1. (44) Vol.12 March 2017, pp 76-83. E-ISSN:1932-2321, Scopus Indexed.

4. ‘Infinite Divisibility of Some Steady State Queue Characteristics’ (2017), (jointly with Joby K. Jose). Journal of the Indian Society for Probability and Statistics (e-ISSN: 2364- 9569) December 2017, Vol.18, Issue 2, pp 215–224, DOI 10.1007/s41096-017-0026-8 (Springer). UGC-CARE Listed. 5. ‘Analysis of Restricted Queueing Networks – A Blocking approach’ (2016),(jointly with M.S. Sreekala), Journal of Statistical Science and Application (JSSA), 4, No. 09-10, 220-230 doi: 10.17265/2328-224X/2016.0910.003; GI & QF-2014:0.571.

4 6. ‘Dynamic Multi State System Reliability Analysis of Power Generating Systems using Lz-transform’ (2018), (jointly with Vidhya G. Nair), ProbStat Forum- an e-journal in Probability, Statistics & Optimization, 11, 81-89, ISSN 0974-3235 (http://www.probstat.org.in). 7. ‘Reliability analysis of a multi state system with common cause failures using Markov Regenerative Process’ (2018), (jointly with Vidhya G. Nair). Reliability Theory & Applications, No.3. (50) Vol.13 September 2018, pp 82-88. Online ISSN 1932-2321. DOI: https://doi.org/10.24411/1932-2321-2018-13006 8. ‘Bayesian estimation of queue parameters by bivariate prior distributions with order restriction’ (2018), (jointly with Joby K Jose), Journal of the Indian Statistical Association, Vol.56, No. 1 & 2, 2018, p29-46 9. ‘Estimation of stress-strength reliability using discrete Phase Type distribution’(2020), (jointly with Joby K Jose and Drisya, M.), Communications in Statistics Theory and Methods ( IF 0.612 ) DOI link: https://doi.org/10.1080/03610926.2020.1749663 10. ‘Reliability Analysis of Periodically Maintained Systems using Semi-Markov Processes based UGF Technique’ (2020), (jointly with Vidhya G Nair), International Journal of Statistics and Reliability Engineering , No.3. Vol.7, pp 326-330 December 2020. Online ISSN 2656-2378, pISSN 2350-0174.

11. ‘Reliability Analysis of a Repairable Parallel Multistate System based on Phase Type Distribution’ (2020), (jointly with Vidhya G Nair), International Journal of Statistics and Reliability Engineering , No.3. Vol.7, pp 408-412, December 2020. Online ISSN 2656-2378, pISSN 2350-0174.

12. ‘On Association in Time of Markov Processes with Application to Reliability and Survival Analysis’ (2021), (jointly with V M Chacko), Statistics and Applications, No.2. Vol.19, 2021. p101-111. Online ISSN 2452-7395.

Calicut University Campus (M. Manoharan) 17th April, 2021