Arnab Hazra
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Arnab Hazra

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Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
Spatial statisticsExtreme value theoryEnvironmental statisticsBayesian statistics
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Publications
6 items
Large Wave Direction Data Modeling Using Wrapped Spatial Gaussian Markov Random Fields
2026
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Regression modeling of multivariate precipitation extremes under regular variation
2026
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A Statistical Assessment of Amortized Inference Under Signal-to-Noise Variation and Distribution Shift
2026
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A Review of Statistical and Machine Learning Approaches for Coral Bleaching Assessment
2025
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Scalable Bayesian inference for high-dimensional mixed-type multivariate spatial data
2025
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A semiparametric generalized exponential regression model with a principled distance-based prior
2023
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Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
  • - Member of the Editorial Board of the journals: Journal of Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental Statistics, Journal of Applied Statistics: Environmental Statistics and Data Science, and Sankhya B- The Indian Journal of Statistics
  • - Reviewer for multiple journals such as Journal of Business & Economic Statistics (JBES), Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics (JCGS), etc.
  • - November 7, 2025: Paper "A semiparametric generalized exponential regression model with a principled distance-based prior" with Arijit Dey accepted in Statistical Papers
  • - October 9, 2025: Conference proceeding "High-dimensional Bayesian Skew-Gaussian Spatial Model for Analyzing Rainfall Trends" published online in MATRIX Annals 2024
Research Experience
  • - Postdoctoral fellow of Statistics at the Computer, Electrical, and Mathematical Science and Engineering (CEMSE) Division, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, Saudi Arabia, after his Ph.D.
  • - Completed the Harvard BOK Higher Education Teaching Certificate course
Education
  • - Ph.D. in Statistics from North Carolina State University, Raleigh, United States, in 2018, under the supervision of Brian J. Reich and Ana-Maria Staicu
  • - Bachelor of Statistics (B.Stat.) and Master of Statistics (M.Stat.) from the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, in 2012 and 2014, respectively
Background
  • - Research interests include spatial statistics, extreme value analysis, heavy-tailed processes, high-dimensional data analysis, hierarchical Bayesian modeling, environmental statistics, applications of Bayesian nonparametrics, goodness-of-fit tests, robust statistical inference, ecological statistics (coral reefs), brain imaging
  • - Currently an Assistant Professor of Statistics in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IIT Kanpur), India
  • - PI for the Spatial Statistics Research Group at IIT Kanpur
Co-authors
8 total
Raphaël Huser
Raphaël Huser
Associate Professor, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST)
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Brian J Reich
Brian J Reich
Professor, North Carolina State University
Co-author 4
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Rishikesh Yadav
Rishikesh Yadav
Assistant Professor, IIT Mandi
Indranil Sahoo
Indranil Sahoo
Associate Professor, Virginia Commonwealth University
David Bolin
David Bolin
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology