An important part of acquiring professional skills is awareness of the activities of other places and disciplines. In addition to the daily activities involving statistical research and teaching at the University, I try to get acquainted with current research at other places and disciplines by means of various area activities, including attending seminars, conferences, workshops. This creates an opportunity for me to gain exposure to important applications which provide excellent motivation for new research directions.

My Weekely Activities
Besides reasearch and teaching I have been involved in several other academic activiities including but not limited to the following:

• Statistical Consulting
  1. Client: Talecris Inc.
     Project: Statistical models for time-lapsed stability data to predict the shelf-life potency of a new product (January 2008 - present).
  2. Client: Agri-Analytics
     Project: Statististical critique on comparing biotech (BT) corn with conventional non-traited (NT) variety of corn (August, 2007).
  3. Client: MESO Inc.
     Project3: Construct different approaches to model output statistics (MOS) (June-August, 2007).
     Project2: Survey different methods of ensemble-based forecast confidence intervals (June-August, 2007).
     Project1: Establish a method of calculating most probable conditional value at individual farms given an 80\% probability of exceedance of the aggregate of some wind farms, (February-March, 2007).
  4. Client: GlaxoSmithKline Inc.
     Project: Develop efficient computational methods to fit nonlinear mixed effects models involving ordinary differential equations (January 2007 - January 2008).
  5. Client: Department of Entomology, North Carolina State University
     Project: Spatial analysis of the distributions of ades albopictus (skuse) larval and pupal production in suburban neighbors of piedmont community in North Carolina, (February 2005 - present).
  6. Client: Department of Economics, North Carolina State University
     Project: Bayesian modeling of spatio-temporal processes affecting crop yields (May 2004 - present).
  7. Client: CIIT and EPA
     Project: Physiologically based pharmacokinetic modeling of genistein in rats, (Jan 2004 - present).
  8. Client: Department of Molecular Biology, North Carolina State University
     Project: Determination of RNA structure and dynamics by photocrosslinking (Dec 2003 - present).
  9. Client: BAYER
     Project: Develop statistical models for bioassay problems (February, 2002 - August 2004).
  10. Client: DPS Technologies Inc.
      Project: Develop statistical models for audio data compression (March, 2001 - April, 2003).
  11. Client: World Health Organization (WHO)
      Project: Models for enhancing cross-population comparability of survey results (November, 2001).
  12. Client: SLATS Team and College of Management, North Carolina State University
      Project: Statistical estimation of the tenure of US school superintendents (April, 2001 - March 2002).
  13. Client: College of Management, North Carolina State University
      Project: Statistical estimation of the tenure of US university presidents (September 1998 - October, 2000).
  14. Client: Center for Real Estate, University of Connecticut
      Project: Develop statistical models for residential sales data (Jun-July, 1995-1996).

• Organizer and Chair
  • Chair of the invited session "Theory and Methods," StatGIS 2007 Conference, Klagenfurt, Austria, September 26, 2007.
  • Chair of the topic contributed session "Methodological Issues in Engineering Applications of Computer Models: A SAMSI Program," Joint Statistical Meetings, Saltlake City, UT, August 2, 2007.
  • Organizer of the topic contributed session "Bayesian Methods in Industrial Applications," Joint Statistical Meetings, Saltlake City, UT, August 2, 2007.
  • Organizer of the topic contributed session "Recent Developments in Bayesian Variable Selection Methods," Joint Statistical Meetings, Saltlake City, UT, July 30, 2007.
  • Chair of the contributed session, "Mixture Models and Misspecified Models," Joint Statistical Meetings, Seattle, WA, August 07, 2006.
  • Organizer of the topic contributed session, "Bayesian Computational Methods for Biomedical Applications," Joint Statistical Meetings, Seattle, WA, August 08, 2006.
  • Chair of the invited session, "Bayesian Methods in Reliability Models," BHU Conference on Bayesian Statistics, Varanasi, India, January 6-9, 2005.
  • Chair of the contributed session, "Bayesian Methods in Health and Health Policy," Joint Statistical Meetings, San Francisco, CA, August 2-7, 2003.
  • Organizer and Chair of the invited session, "Health Effects and Environmental Risk Assessment of Air Pollution," ENAR Spring Meeting, Tampa, FL, March 30 - April 2, 2003.
  • Chair of the invited session, "SESSION II: Long memory processes," NBER-NSF Time Series Workshop, Raleigh, NC, September 21-22, 2001.
  • Chair of the topic contributed session, "Diagnostics and model checking using Bayesian methods," Joint Statistical Meetings, Atlanta, GA, August 5-9, 2001.
  • Organizer and Chair of the IMS Invited session, "A Decade of Gibbs Sampling," Joint Statistical Meetings, Indianapolis, IN, August 13-17, 2000.
  • Organizer and chair of the IMS Invited session, "Model Choice: A Quantitative Assessment of Model Uncertainty," Joint Statistical Meetings, Indianapolis, IN, August 13-17, 2000.
  • Organizer and Chair of the Invited session, "Modeling Spatial Variation using Non-stationary Processes," International conference on Statistics in the 21st Century, Orono, Maine, June 29- July 1, 2000.
  • Organizer of the ISBA Invited session, "Small Area Estimation: Its Application in census and sampling," Sixth World ISBA Meeting, Hersonissos, Crete, May 28 - June 1, 2000.

• Referee and reviewer
  Annals of Applied Statistics, Applied Statistics (JRSS-C), Biometrical Journal, Biometrics, Biometrika, Communication in Statistics, Computational Statistics and Data Analysis (CSDA), Journal of Agricultural Biological and Environmental Statistics (JABES), Journal of American Statistical Association (JASA), Journal of Business and Economic Sciences (JBES), Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference (JSPI), Journal of Veterinary Diagnostic Investigation, Lifetime Data Analysis, Metron, Model Assisted Statistical Applications (MASA) National Institute of Health (NIH) grant proposals, NIH panel participant, National Science Foundation (NSF) grant proposals, NSF panel participant, Sankhya, Statistical Methodology, Statistics in Medicine.

• Committees
  • Co-Chair of the Written Prelim Exam Committee, 2008.
  • Member of Statistics Department Leadership Review Committee, 2007.
  • Member of the Prelim Exam Committee, 1997, 2004, 2006, 2007.
  • Member of the Faculty Search Committee, 1997, 1998, 2006.
  • Chair of the Master Exam Committee, 1998-2000, 2005-2006.
  • Member of the Graduate Admissions Committee, 2000-2002.
  • Faculty adviser of the Consulting Service, 2000-present.
  • Chair of the PhD Qualifying Exam Committee, 2002.
  • Chair of the Seminar Committee, 2003-2006.
  • Member of the Webpage Committee, 2003-present.
  • Member of the Comprehensive Review Committee, 2003-2005.
  • Member of the Course and Curriculum Committee, 2005-2006.
  • Elected member of Grievance Panel, 2001-2003.
  • Elected member of the PAMS Planning Council, 2006-present.
  • Elected member of Committee on Meetings, American Statistical Association, 2007-2009.

• American Statistical Association
• International Society for Bayesian Analysis
• Sigma Xi
• Community of Science
• International Indian Statistical Association

© Sujit K. Ghosh 1996-2008