Professor Sujit Kumar Ghosh is currently a Professor in the Department of Statistics at North Carolina State University (NCSU). He has over 30 years of experience in conducting, applying, evaluating and documenting statistical analysis of biomedical and environmental data. Prof. Ghosh is actively involved in teaching, supervising and mentoring graduate students at the doctoral and master levels. He has supervised over 48 doctoral graduate students and 5 post-doctoral fellows. He was awarded D.D. Mason Faculty award in 2023 and Cavell Brownie Mentoring Award in 2014 by the Statistics department at NCSU. He has also served as a statistical investigator and private consultant for over 50 different research projects funded by various leading private industries and federal agencies (e.g., BAYER, CDC, GSK, MERCK, NIH, NISS, NSF, SAS, U.S.EPA, USDA-NASS). Prof. Ghosh has published over 145 refereed journal articles in the various areas of statistics with applications in biomedical and environmental sciences, econometrics and engineering. He has co-authored a popular textbook titled "Bayesian Statistical Methods” in 2019. Prof. Ghosh has been regularly invited by peer institutions and conference organizers to present talks. He has given over 200 invited lectures, seminars at national and international meetings. In recent years, Prof. Ghosh has contributed significantly in developing statistical models and associated methodologies for various inferential problems that are subject to shape constraint.
Prof. Ghosh received the International Indian Statistical Association (IISA) Young Investigator Award in 2008; was elected a Fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA) in 2009; was elected as the President of the NC Chapter of ASA in 2013 and also the President of the IISA in 2017. He was the recipient of the Thammasat University Honorary Plaque in 2013 and also received the prestigious Honorary Doctorate in Statistics at Thammasat University (Thailand) in 2015. He served as the Co-Director of Graduate Programs in Statistics at NCSU managing over 150 students annually during 2010-2013, the Project Director of a training program for undergraduates funded by the NSF during 2007-2013. He also served as lead PI of an NIH funded Summer Institute in Biostatistics (SIBS) during 2019-2023. He served as the Program Director in the Division of Mathematical Sciences (DMS) within the Directorate of Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS) at NSF in 2013-2014. He has also served as the Deputy Director at the Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute (SAMSI) during 2014-2017. He served as a member of the CANSSI Scientific Advisory Committee during 2021-2023 and the interim Department Head of Statistics at NCSU during 2022-2023.