Scholar
Somabha Mukherjee
Google Scholar ID: Gi58pWsAAAAJ
Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics and Data Science, National University of Singapore
Citations & Impact
Citations
315
H-index
10
i10-index
11
Publications
20
Co-authors
11
list available
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Recipient of the 2022 Faculty Teaching Excellence Award, National University of Singapore
- Winner of the 2020 J. Parker Bursk Prize for Research from Wharton
- Winner of the 2020 International Indian Statistical Association (IISA) student paper competition
- P.C. Mahalanobis gold medal awardee, Indian Statistical Institute, 2016
- Principal investigator of NUS Start-up Grant (2021–2025)
- Principal investigator of two FoS Tier 1 grants (2023–2026; 2025–2027)
Background
- Currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Statistics and Data Science, National University of Singapore
- Research interests span both Statistics and Probability
- In Statistics: non-parametric statistics (testing and variable selection), inference in graphical models, high-dimensional CLT, shape-restricted regression, and inference in Markov random fields
- In Probability: discrete & combinatorial probability, large deviations, random graphs, and statistical physics
- PhD dissertation focused on inference in higher-order Markov random fields, particularly tensor Ising models
