Welcome

Welcome to my webpage. Here you’ll find my research, teaching, publications, and other ongoing work.

News:

• Work led by postdoc Dr. Sandipan Pramanik played a central role in the recently published 2025 UN Child Mortality Estimates report, which for the first time corrected for verbal autopsy misclassification bias, as described in this BMJ Global Health paper.
• The Baltimore Airquality Dashboard is now live!
• Press coverage on recent paper
• Hopkins study confirms operations at Baltimore coal terminal caused air pollution in Curtis Bay community
• Study links Port of Baltimore coal terminal to Curtis Bay air pollution
• Maryland will require giant ‘windscreen’ to shield South Baltimore from CSX coal dust
• Recent papers: Nat. Med. , Biometrika , AoAS , PNAS , JASA , Biometrics , AoAS , JASA
• Editorial boards: Associate Editor for Journal of the American Statistical Association, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A and B, Biometrics, Sankhya, and Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics.
• [2025] Elected Fellow of the American Statistical Association
• [2025] JASA Reproducibility Award for the paper Neural Networks for geospatial data
• [2025] Excellence in Teaching, AI Methods for Geospatial Data, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
• [2025] Excellence in Teaching, Probability Theory, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
• [2024] Emerging Leader Award, Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies (COPSS).
• [2024] New short course on Statistical and Machine Learning for Geospatial Big Data
• [2024-2025] Program chair, American Statistical Association, Section on Statistics and the Environment (ENVR).
• [2024] R01 award, NIBIB, for spatial methods for functional neuroimaging.
• [2023] Abdel El-Shaarawi Early Investigator’s Award, The International Environmetrics Society (TIES).
• [2022] R01 award, NIEHS, to develop statistical methods for air-pollution data from low-cost sensors.
• [2021] Early Career Award, International Indian Statistical Association (IISA).
• [2021] Early Investigator Award, American Statistical Association Section on Statistics and the Environment (ENVR).
• [2020] AMTRA Award (Advising, Mentoring, & Teaching Recognition), JHSPH Student Assembly.
• [2018-2023] 5 Excellence in Teaching Awards, Probability Theory, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
• [Earlier] NSF-DMS award, ASA Outstanding Statistical Application Award, Savage award (Honorable mention), JSM Student Paper Award, ENAR Distinguished Student Paper Award, Delta Omega Inductee.