Nairanjana (Jan) Dasgupta is an Indian statistician at

Washington State University Washington State University (Washington State, WSU, or informally Wazzu) is a public land-grant research university with its flagship, and oldest, campus in Pullman, Washington. Founded in 1890, WSU is also one of the oldest land-grant unive ...

, where she is Boeing Distinguished Professor in Mathematics and Statistics. Her research interests include large-scale multiple testing in

bioinformatics Bioinformatics () is an interdisciplinary field that develops methods and software tools for understanding biological data, in particular when the data sets are large and complex. As an interdisciplinary field of science, bioinformatics combi ...

, as well as applications involving nutrition and lactation, and the growth of apples.

Education and career

Dasgupta graduated from

Presidency College, Kolkata Presidency University, Kolkata (formerly known as Presidency College, Kolkata) is a second major public state aided research university located in College Street, Kolkata. Considered as one of best colleges when Presidency College was affili ...

in 1990, with a bachelor's degree in statistics and minors in mathematics and economics. She went to the University of South Carolina for graduate study in statistics. She earned a master's degree in 1994 with a thesis supervised by Stephen Durham on hyperfinite

probability theory Probability theory is the branch of mathematics concerned with probability. Although there are several different probability interpretations, probability theory treats the concept in a rigorous mathematical manner by expressing it through a set o ...

and completed her Ph.D. in 1996. Her doctoral advisor was John Spurrier, and her dissertation, on

logistic regression In statistics, the logistic model (or logit model) is a statistical model that models the probability of an event taking place by having the log-odds for the event be a linear function (calculus), linear combination of one or more independent var ...

, was ''Comparison to control in logistic regression''. She joined the statistics faculty at Washington State University in 1996 and became the director of the newly established Center of Interdisciplinary Statistics Education and Research there in 2015.

Recognition

Dasgupta was named Boeing Distinguished Professor of Math and Science Education at Washington State University in 2017. In 2018, she was named a

Fellow of the American Statistical Association Like many other academic professional societies, the American Statistical Association (ASA) uses the title of Fellow of the American Statistical Association as its highest honorary grade of membership. The number of new fellows per year is limited ...

. She is the 2022 president of the

Caucus for Women in Statistics The Caucus for Women in Statistics is a professional society for women in statistics. It was founded in 1971, following discussions in 1969 and 1970 at the annual meetings of the American Statistical Association, with Donna Brogan as its first pr ...

References

External links

Nairanjana Dasgupta at the Washington State University website
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Dasgupta, Nairanjana Year of birth missing (living people) Living people American statisticians Indian statisticians Women statisticians Presidency University, Kolkata alumni University of South Carolina alumni Washington State University faculty Fellows of the American Statistical Association