Education

• Ph.D. in Statistics, Stanford University, June 2005. Adviser: Persi Diaconis.
• Master of Statistics, Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta, 2002.
• Bachelor of Statistics, Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta, 2000.

Positions

• Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, University of California at Berkeley, since 2006.
• Visiting Neyman Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, University of California at Berkeley, 2005 - 2006.

Awards, etc.

1. 2008 Tweedie New Researcher Award, from the Institute of Mathematical Statistics.
2. Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship in Mathematics, 2007-2009.
3. NSF grant DMS-0707054, 2007-2010.

Professional services

• Associate editor for Annales de l'Institut Henri Poincaré (B) Probabilités et Statistiques since 2008.

Publications

1. Consistent Estimates of Deformed Isotropic Gaussian Random Fields on the Plane. (with Ethan Anderes) To appear in Ann. Statist.
2. Spin glasses and Stein's method. To appear in Probab. Theory Related Fields.
3. Multivariate normal approximation using exchangeable pairs. (with Elizabeth Meckes) To appear in ALEA.
4. Fluctuations of eigenvalues and second order Poincaré inequalities. To appear in Probab. Theory Related Fields.
5. Gravitational allocation to Poisson points. (with Ron Peled, Yuval Peres, and Dan Romik) To appear in Ann. Math.
6. A new method of normal approximation. Ann. Probab., 36, no. 4, 1584-1610, 2008.
7. Estimation in spin glasses: A first step. Ann. Statist., 35, no. 5, 1931-1946, 2007.
8. Concentration of Haar measures, with an application to random matrices. J. Funct. Anal., 245, 379-389, 2007.
9. Stein's method for concentration inequalities. Probab. Theory Related Fields, 138, 305-321, 2007.
10. A generalization of the Lindeberg principle. Ann. Probab., 34 no. 6, 2061-2076, 2006.
11. Concentration inequalities with exchangeable pairs. Ph.D. thesis. Stanford University, 2005.
12. Exchangeable pairs and Poisson approximation. (with Persi Diaconis and Elizabeth Meckes) Probab. Surv., 2, 64-106, 2005.
13. A new method for bounding rates of convergence of empirical spectral distributions. (with Arup Bose) J. Theoret. Probab., 17 no. 4, 1003-1019, 2004.
14. Limiting spectral distributions of large dimensional random matrices. (with Arup Bose and Sreela Gangyopadhyay) J. Indian Statist. Assoc., 41 no. 2, 221-259, 2003.