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Bhramar Mukherjee Bhramar Mukherjee • Contact Information Office : Department of Biostatistics University of Michigan Home: 2353 Alder Ct 1420 Washington Heights Ann Arbor Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2029. MI 48103 Ph: (734)-764-6544 Phone:(734)-332-8976 Fax:(734)-763-2215 [email protected] http://www-personal.umich.edu/~bhramar • Employment Associate Professor (2009-), Department of Biostatistics, University of Michigan. Assistant Professor (2006-2009), John G. Searle Assistant Professor (2008-2009), Department of Biostatistics, University of Michigan. Participating Faculty: Occupational and Environmental Epidemiology Concentration, Department of Environmental Health Sciences, University of Michigan. Member, University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center. Assistant Professor (Spring 2002-2006), Department of Statistics, University of Florida. • Other Employment Summer Intern, (Summer, 2000), Statistics Division, Eli Lilly and Company, Indianapolis. Teaching assistant, Statistical Consultant, Research Assistant (1996-2001), Department of Statistics, Purdue University. Visiting Scholar (Summer 2002), Department of Statistics, Stanford University. Visiting Scholar (Summer 2004), Applied Statistics Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India. Visiting Assistant Professor (Fall 2001 and academic year 2004-2005), Department of Statistics, Purdue University. 1 Visitor (Summer 2006), Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, The National Cancer Institute,(NCI/NIH), Bethesda, MD. Visiting Scholar (Summer 2006, 2009), Department of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand. Visiting Scholar (Summer, 2010) Institut d'Investigaci Biomdica de Bellvitge Institut Catal d'Oncologia, Unitat de Bioestadistica Bioinformtica (Recipient of a visiting scholar grant awarded by the Agency for Administration of University and Research Grants (AGAUR), Catalonia, Spain) • Education Ph.D. in Statistics (Received 2001) Advisor : William J. Studden Optimal designs for estimating the path of a stochastic process Purdue University M.S. in Mathematical Statistics, 1999 Purdue University M. Stat. in Applied Statistics and Data Analysis, 1994-96 Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta, India B. Sc. in Statistics, 1991 -94, Presidency College, Calcutta, India. • Honors and Awards National scholarship, 1989, 1991, India. Best student among Statistics majors award, 1993-1994, Presidency College, Calcutta. Outstanding academic performance prizes, 1994-1996, Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta. Debesh-Kamal scholarship for studying abroad, 1996, The Ramakrishna Mission, India. Teaching award for outstanding classroom performance, 1998, Purdue University. Purdue Research Foundation grant, 1998-2000. I.W.Burr award for an outstanding doctoral student, 2001, Purdue University. New Researcher's summer fellowship, 2002, Stanford University. Travel award, SAMSI 2003. Travel award to attend conference on new directions in experimental design, 2003. Travel award to attend New Researchers' Conference, 2003. 2 Travel award to attend Pathways to Future Workshop for Women, 2003. Travel award to attend Fifth International Workshop on Objective Bayes Methodology, 2005. Poster award in Fifth International Workshop on Objective Bayes Methodology, 2005. NSA Young Investigator Grant, 2005-07. Center for Research on Learning and Teaching faculty development award for integrating public health applications in BIOSTAT 503, University of Michigan, 2008. John G. Searle Assistant Professorship, 2008-2009: Awarded to an Assistant Professor with significant contribution: Department of Biostatistics, University of Michigan. Elizabeth C. Crosby research award for women investigators in science, 2008: NSF AD- VANCE program, The University of Michigan. Elected Member of the International Statistical Institute, 2011. Excellence in Teaching award, 2012: School of Public Health, University of Michigan. (Awarded annually to one School of Public Health faculty member for outstanding teaching achieve- ments. More information is available at http://www.sph.umich.edu/about/awards.html) Fellow of the American Statistical Association, 2012. Outstanding Alumni Award, Department of Statistics, Purdue University, 2012. • Professional Activity Editorial Service: Associate Editor, Biometrics; 2008-, Associate Editor, The Amer- ican Statistician; 2008-, Associate Editor, Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference; 2012-, Editorial Board Member, Sankhya, Ser B; 2008-2012, Editorial Board Member, International Statistical Review; 2011-. Editorial Board Member, Genetic Epidemiology; 2011-. Editorial Board Member, Epidemiologic Methods; 2011- Reviewer: The Annals of Statistics, Biometrika, Statistical Methodology, Journal of Sta- tistical Planning and Inference, Journal of American Statistical Association, Biometrics, Sta- tistica Sinica, The Scandinavian Journal of Statistics, Geoderma, Human Heredity, Statistics in Medicine, Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, BMC Medical Research Method- ology, Epidemiologic Perspective and Innovations, Lifetime Data Analysis, Communications in Statistics, Journal of the National Cancer Institute, Genetic Epidemiology, Journal of Bio- pharmaceutical Statistics, Annals of Human Genetics, Epidemiology, European Journal for Human Genetics, The Annals of Applied Statistics, Bioinformatics, Biostatistics, Genome Medicine, The American Journal of Epidemiology, IEEE Transactions on Computational Bi- ology and Bioinformatics. 3 Study Section and Grant Review Panel: Special Emphasis Review Panel, Cancer Prevention, Control and Population Sciences, NCI, June 16-17, 2009. Special Emphasis Review Panel, Cancer Prevention, Control and Population Sciences, NCI, March 1-3, 2010. Special Emphasis Review Panel, Cancer Prevention, Control and Population Sciences, NCI, January 24-26, 2011. Special Emphasis Review Panel, Cancer Prevention, Control and Population Sciences, NCI, February 2-3, 2012. Special Emphasis Review Panel, Cancer Prevention, Control and Population Sciences, NCI, October 3-4, 2012. Grant Review Panel, National Science Foundation, Division of Mathematical Sciences, 2012. Advisory Committee, Steering Committee, Executive Committee, and Consultant: Invited to serve on one time Director's advisory panel, NCI/NIH, 2012. Executive committee, NIEHS P30 center on \Lifestage exposure and adult diseases", Univer- sity of Michigan, Department of Environment health Sciences, 2011-15. Steering committee member, Robert Wood Johnson Health and Society Scholars Program, 2011-13. Scientific Advisory for Analysis Committee, Colorectal Cancer GWAS Consortium (GECCO), PI Ulrike Peters, The Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, 2010. American Chemistry Council Working Group on Biomarker Discovery, organized by NIH/NICHD. Lead Co-ordinators: Paul S. Albert and Enrique Schisterman, Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, NICHD, 2010-11. External Reviewer for Tenure and Promotion Evaluation 2010: University of Minnesota, Pennsylvania State University, University of Connecticut. 2011: University of Minnesota. 2012: Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Harvard School of Public Health. • Professional Membership American Statistical Association, (ASA Section on Epidemiology, Bayesian Statistics, Teach- ing Statistics to Health Sciences and Nonparametric Statistics), Institute of Mathemati- cal Statistics, International Indian Statistical Association, International Biometric Society (ENAR), International Statistical Institute. 4 • Publications (Peer Reviewed) 1. Mausumi Bose and Bhramar Mukherjee, Cross-over design in the presence of higher order carry-overs, Australian and New Zealand Journal of Statistics, 42:235-44, 2000. 2. Bhramar Mukherjee, Exactly optimal sampling designs for processes with a prod- uct covariance structure, The Canadian Journal of Statistics, 31:1-19, 2003. 3. Mausumi Bose and Bhramar Mukherjee, Cross-over designs under a general model, Statistics and Probability Letters, 62:413-18, 2003. 4. Bhramar Mukherjee, On sampling designs for estimating the integral of a stochas- tic process, Communications in Statistics, Theory and Methods, 32:1647-63, 2003. 5. ∗Samiran Sinha, Bhramar Mukherjee and Malay Ghosh, Bayesian analysis of matched case-control studies with multiple disease states. Biometrics, 60:41-49, 2004. 6. ∗Samiran Sinha, Bhramar Mukherjee, Malay Ghosh, Bani K. Mallick and Raymond J. Carroll, Bayesian semiparametric analysis of matched case-control studies with missing exposure. Journal of the American Statistical Association,100:591-601, 2005. 7. Malay Ghosh and Bhramar Mukherjee, Non-parametric sequential Bayes estimation of the distribution function. Sequential Analysis, 24:389-409, 2005. 8. Bhramar Mukherjee, Samiran Sinha and Malay Ghosh, Bayesian Analysis for case- control studies. In Handbook of Statistics, Vol 25, Bayesian Thinking: Modeling and Com- putation, Eds Dey, D. and Rao, C. R., 793-819, 2005. 9. Malay Ghosh, Li Zhang and Bhramar Mukherjee, Equivalence of posteriors in the Bayesian analysis of the multinomial-Poisson transform Metron, 64:19-28, 2006. 10. Samiran Sinha and Bhramar Mukherjee, A score test for determining sample size for a matched case-control study with categorical exposure, Biometrical Journal, 48:35-53, 2006. 11. Bhramar Mukherjee, A note on sampling designs for random processes with no quadratic mean derivative. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Statistics, 48:305-19, 2006. 12. Yashowanto N. Ghosh and Bhramar Mukherjee, On properties of conditional me- dians and quantiles.Statistics and
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