Dr. Sumonkanti Das

Biography

Sumonkanti Das completed his PhD in Statistics at the University of Wollongong, focusing on Small Area Estimation (SAE) and robust inference for poverty mapping. Following his doctorate, he served as a post-doctoral researcher at Maastricht University in the Netherlands, where he contributed to joint research projects with Statistics Netherlands (CBS). His work involved extensive engagement in multilevel time series modeling to estimate mobility trends in small domains of the Dutch population. He is currently a Research Fellow at the Australian National University (ANU) in the School of Demography, where he is involved in estimating smoking prevalence across disaggregated domains of Australia as part of a National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Idea Grant project. He is also engaged in an Australian Research Council (ARC) Linkage Project focusing on surveillance sampling for the prevention of pests and diseases. In addition to his research, Mr. Das serves as a Course Coordinator in the ANU Statistical Support Network and maintains an affiliation as a faculty member with the Department of Statistics at Shahjalal University of Science and Technology in Bangladesh. His primary research interests include the implementation of small area estimation methodologies in population health, nutrition, and demography, with specific expertise in multilevel modeling of complex survey data.

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