Education

PhD in Statistics and Data Science

2026 – (2030)

National University of Singapore

  • Supervised by Dr. Jonathan Göke (research attachment at A*STAR GIS) and Dr. Alexandre Thiéry.
  • Supported by the Industrial-Relevant PhD Fellowship.
  • Research focus: long-read transcriptomics; DNA and RNA language models.

Master of Statistics

2024 – 2026

Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata

  • Specialization: Applied Statistics (Biostatistics).
  • First Division with Distinction: 78.1% aggregate.

Bachelor of Statistics (Hons.)

2021 – 2024

Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata

  • First Division with Distinction: 76.84% aggregate.

Research

Semi-supervised annotation approaches for scRNA-seq data

Aug 2025 – present

Prof. Raghunath Chatterjee, ISI Kolkata · Dr. Jayant Jha, ISI Kolkata

Extending joint location-scale tests to multivariate phenotypes

May 2023 – Oct 2025

Dr. Arunabha Majumdar, Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad

Emotional responses to Hindustani classical music from cognitive data

Jun – Dec 2022

Dr. Shankha Sanyal, Jadavpur University

Reading project on Bayesian statistics

Jun – Aug 2022

Prof. Kiranmoy Das, ISI Kolkata

Details and coursework projects →

Experience

Student Attachment

Aug 2026 – present

A*STAR Genome Institute of Singapore

Research Consultant

Jul – Sep 2025

Zamun

  • A review of energy storage solutions for datacenters, weighing reliability, sustainability, and implementation cost.
  • Statistical input for large-scale integration of EV charging into residential and commercial real estate.

Mentor & Analyst

Mar 2022 – Jul 2024

SciAstra

  • Mentored students for entrance examinations, bridging the gap between high school curricula and the requirements of institutes like ISI and CMI.
  • Estimated student ranks for IAT and NEST 2023 from prior data and survey responses, using spline regression and semi-parametric bias estimation (Jul 2023).

Open source

PLINK on Arch Linux

2024 – present

Package maintainer, AUR & BioArchLinux

Bioconductor

2026

Contributor

Zotero

2024 – present

Contributor

Stirling-PDF

2025

Contributor

Heroic Games Launcher

2021

Contributor

Citra & yuzu

2018 – 2019

Contributor

All software →

Scholarships & awards

KVPY Fellowship

2019 & 2020

Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru, for the Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India

Awarded two years running, in the SA and SX streams. All India Ranks 694 (2019) and 1291 (2020).

National Talent Search Scholarship

2019

National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT), Govt. of India

A national scholarship selected through a two-stage written examination.

JTST Junior Encouragement Award

2019

Jagadis Bose National Science Talent Search (JBNSTS), Kolkata

For performance in the Junior Talent Search Test, followed by interview.

Entrance examinations (2021)

ExaminationRankOutcome
National Entrance Screening Test (NEST)#12of 24,000+Offered admission to the National Institute of Science Education and Research (NISER), Bhubaneswar
ISI B.Stat. entrance#53of 2,500+Joined the B.Stat. (Hons.) program at ISI Kolkata
IISER Aptitude Test#137of 20,000+Offered admission to all Indian Institutes of Science Education and Research (IISERs)
WBJEE (state rank)#50of 60,000+Offered admission to top engineering colleges in West Bengal
JEE Main#4,342of 1,000,000+Qualified for JEE Advanced
JEE Advanced#10,329of 150,000+Did not participate in admissions, having joined ISI

Service & leadership

Convener, Integration 2024

2023 – 2024

Integration is the annual techno-cultural-sports fest of the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata.

Founding Head, Digital Infrastructure Committee, Integration 2024

2023 – 2024

IT lead, Integration 2023

2022 – 2023

Handled most of the IT and technical work for the fest.

Examination Controller (Online), MTRP 2023

2022 – 2023

The Mathematics Talent Reward Programme, run as part of Integration.

Treasurer & event manager, Mas Fresco 2022–23

2022 – 2023

Class representative, B.Stat. batch of 2024

2021 – 2024

Head of the IT Club, B.D.M. International, Kolkata

2018

Skills

Statistics & data analysis
RPythontidyversepandaspolarsscipystatsmodelsmixed modelsbootstrapMCMCtime series
Bayesian & probabilistic programming
StanJAGSPyMCNumPyro
Machine learning & HPC
PyTorchTensorFlowscikit-learnCUDAparallel & distributed computing
Bioinformatics
scverseBioconductorPLINK
Software engineering
C/C++KotlingitCMakeMakeDockerCI/CDLinux
Data & infrastructure
PostgreSQLSQLiteMongoDBRESTgRPCscrapingCloudflare Workers
Communication
ShinyJupytermarimoSvelteReactLaTeXteaching
Languages
English (native)Hindi (native)Bengali (native)German (A1)