Rahul Bhattacharya

Department of Statistics,
West Bengal State University,
Barasat
Email: stat.rahul@gmail.com

Education :

1. Ph.D in Statistics, 2007, University of Calcutta, India. Advisors: Pro- fessor Uttam Bandyopadhyay, Department of Statistics, University of Calcutta & Professor Atanu Biswas, Applied Statistics Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata.
2. M.Sc in Statistics(Ranked First), 2000, University of Calcutta, India.
3. B.Sc in Statistics(Ranked Second), 1998, Presidency College, Kolkata, India.

Experience :

1. Reader, 2009-present: Department of Statistics, West Bengal State University, Barasat, India.
2. Lecturer,2005-2009, Department of Statistics, Asutosh College, Kolkata, India.

Awards & Achievement :

1. J. B. Haldane Memorial Prize,2009 for best research work among the junior faculty members in Biostatistics.
2. R.C. Bose Memorial Prize,2000 for securing the highest marks in M.Sc Examination.
3. Regression, Statistical Modeling, Survival Analysis.

Research Interests :

Statistical Inference- Parametric & Nonparametric; Multivariate Distribution Theory;Design of Clinical Trials;Optimization; Mathematical Analysis-Real & Complex; Statistical Computing.

Book Chapters/ Monographs :

1. Biswas, A. and Bhattacharya, R.(2010) Treatment Adaptive Allocations in Randomized Clinical Trials: An Overview To appear in Handbook of Adaptive Designs in Pharmaceutical and Clinical Devel- opment, CRC Press, Editors: Annpey Pong, Schering-Plough Corp., Roseland, New Jersey, USA; Shein-Chung Chow, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, USA.
2. Bandyopadhyay, U., Biswas, A. and Bhattacharya, R.(2008) Response Adaptive Designs in Phase-III Clinical Trials In Statistical Advances in Biomedical Sciences: State of the Art and Future Direc- tions,John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey, Editors: Biswas, A., Datta, S., Fine, J. and Segal, M.

Selected Publications :

1. Biswas, A., Park, E. and Bhattacharya, R.(2010) Covariate-adjusted response-adaptive designs for longitudinal treatment responses: PEMF trial revisited. To appear in Statistical Methods in Medical Re- search.
2. Biswas, A., Mandal, S. and Bhattacharya, R.(2010) Multi-treatment optimal response-adaptive designs for phase III clinical trials. To ap- pear in Journal of the Korean Statistical Society.
3. Biswas, A. and Bhattacharya, R.(2010) Reduction of Variability of Response-Adaptive Designs for Continuous Treatment Responses in Phase 3 Clinical Trials. Drug Information Journal 44, 9-19.
4. Biswas, A. and Bhattacharya, R.(2010)An optimal response-adaptive design with dual constraints. Statistics & Probability Letters 80, 177-185.
5. Bandyopadhyay, U., Biswas, A. and Bhattacharya, R.(2010) A covariate- adjusted adaptive design for two-stage clinical trials with survival data. Statistica Neerlandica 64, 202 - 226.
6. Bandyopadhyay, U. and Bhattacharya, R.(2009) Response Adaptive Procedures with dual Optimality Statistica Neerlandica 63, 353-367.
7. Bandyopadhyay, U., Biswas, A. and Bhattacharya, R.(2009) A Bayesian adaptive design for two-stage clinical trials with survival data. Life Time Data Analysis 15, 468-492.
8. Biswas, A. and Bhattacharya, R.(2009) Optimal response-adaptive de- signs for normal responses. Biometrical Journal 51, 193-202.
9. Bandyopadhyay, U., Biswas, A. and Bhattacharya, R.(2009)Drop-the- loser design in the presence of covariates. Metrika 69, 1-15.
10. Bandyopadhyay, U., Biswas, A. and Bhattacharya, R.(2008)Kernel based response-adaptive design for continuous responses. Communi- cations in Statistics: Theory and Methods 38, 2691-2705.
11. Bhattacharya, R.(2008)Urn based Response Adaptive procedures and Optimality. Drug Information Journal 42, 441-448.
12. Biswas, A., Bhattacharya, R. and Zhang, L.(2007)Optimal Response- Adaptive Designs for continuous responses in Phase III trials. Bio- metrical Journal 49, 928-940.
13. Bandyopadhyay, U., Biswas, A. and Bhattacharya, R.(2007)A Covari- ate Adjusted Two Stage Allocation Design for Binary Responses in Ran- domized Clinical Trials. Statistics in Medicine 26, 4386-4399.
14. Bandyopadhyay, U. and Bhattacharya, R.(2007) On an ethical cum optimal adaptive allocation design. Statistics 41, 471-483.
15. Bandyopadhyay, U. and Bhattacharya, R.(2006) Adaptive Allocation and Failure Saving in Randomised Clinical Trials. Journal of Bio- pharmaceutical Statistics 16, 1-13.
16. Bandyopadhyay, U. and Bhattacharya, R.(2006) An optimal sequential procedure in ethical allocation. Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference 136, 430-446.

Conference Presentations :

1. Optimization in Clinical Trials, National Seminar on Recent Trends in Operations Research and Its Computational Challenges Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Calcutta, November 17-18,2009.
2. Numerical procedures in R , One Day Workshop on Statistical Com- puting with R Department of Statistics, West Bengal State University, Barasat, March 23,2009.
3. A Covariate Adjusted Optimal Adaptive Design for Continuous Re- sponse Phase-III Clinical Trials, Sixth International Triennial Calcutta Symposium on Probability and Statistics Department of Statistics, Uni- versity of Calcutta, December 29-31, 2006.