Associate Professor
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Office: 328 Machray Hall
Telephone: 204-474-9661
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Research Interests
optimal regression design,
design of experiments,
optimal response-adaptive designs,
statistical inference,
linear models
Recent Publications
- Biswas, A., Banerjee, B. and Mandal, S. (2013).
Optimal Sample Proportion for a Two-Treatment Clinical Trial in the Presence of Surrogate Endpoints.
In Advances in Model-Oriented Design and Analysis - mODa 10. (Editors: Ucinski, D., Atkinson, A.C. and Patan, M.).
Springer. Accepted. In Press.,
2013.
- Mandal, S., Biswas, A., Trandafir, P.C. and Chowdhury, M.Z.
(2013).
Optimal target allocation proportion for correlated binary responses in a 2x2 set up.
Statistics and Probability Letters,
Accepted.
- Appadoo, S.S., Thavaneswaran, A. and Mandal, S.
(2012).
RCA model with quadratic GARCH innovation distribution.
Applied Mathematics Letters, 25,
1452–1457.
- Mandal, S., Ghosh, D.K. and Bagui, S.C.
(2012).
Robustness of a class of variance balanced designs against the loss of one or two blocks.
Utilitas Mathematica.
In press.
- Mandal, S., Samanta, M. and Chen, H.
(2012).
An analysis of variance test for exponentiality of two distributions: Complete and censored samples.
Sankhya B.
In press, doi:10.1007/s13571-012-0052-1.
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Biography
Saumen Mandal is an Associate Professor in the Department of Statistics. He received Ph.D. (Statistics) degree from the University of Glasgow, U.K., and M.Sc. (Statistics) and B.Sc. Honours (Statistics) degrees from the University of Calcutta, India. During his doctoral research at the University of Glasgow, he received the ORS (Overseas Research Scholarship) Award from the Council of Vice Chancellors and Principals (CVCP), London, U.K. Saumen was ranked first (First Class First) in M.Sc. (Statistics) at the University of Calcutta. His areas of research interest include optimal regression design, constrained optimization, optimal response-adaptive design, balanced incomplete block design, goodness-of-fit tests and linear models. He received numerous awards including the Dr. and Mrs. H.H. Saunderson Award for excellence in teaching, Merit Awards in teaching and research, Teaching Recognition Award 3 years in a row from the University of Manitoba. Saumen holds a P.Stat. designation from the Statistical Society of Canada.
Research Grants and Awards
NSERC Discovery Grant - Individual, 2013-2018.
NSERC Discovery Grant - Individual, 2008-2013.
NSERC Research Tools and Instruments Grant [joint with A. Leblanc (PI) and 9 others], 2012.
NSERC Discovery Grant - Individual, 2003-2008.
CIHR Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of Alberta (Supervisor: K. C. Carriere), 2002.
Dr. and Mrs. H.H. Saunderson Award for Excellence in Teaching, University of Manitoba, 2011.
Merit Award in Teaching, University of Manitoba, 2011.
Merit Award in Teaching, University of Manitoba, 2010.
Teaching Excellence Award for Exemplary Teaching of 1000 and 2000 level courses, University of Manitoba Science Students’ Association, Faculty of Science, 2007.
Teaching Excellence Award for Exemplary Teaching of 3000 and 4000 level courses, University of Manitoba Science Students’ Association, Faculty of Science, 2006.
Merit Award in Teaching and Research (combined), University of Manitoba, 2006.
Faculty Access Award, Disability Services Office, University of Manitoba, 2006.
Teaching Excellence Award for Exemplary Teaching of 3000 and 4000 level courses, University of Manitoba Science Students’ Association, Faculty of Science, 2005.
Merit Award in Teaching, University of Manitoba, 2004.
