Debajyoti Sinha Named ASA Fellow

Debajyoti Sinha (right) and his former mentor, Professor Jack Hall, at the JSM2006 award ceremony.

At the recent JSM2006 statistical meetings in Seattle, a University of Rochester PhD in Statistics recipient, DEBAJYOTI SINHA, was honored by being named a Fellow of the American Statistical Association. Deb received his PhD here in 1993.

His citation read:

Debajyoti Sinha. Professor of Biostatistics, Bioinformatics & Epidemiology, Medical University of South Carolina. For pioneering contributions to the development of Bayesian survival analysis and Bayesian biostatistics; for promotion of sound application of biostatistics and Bayesian biostatistics to cancer research; and for service to the profession.

Each year, a number of members (not more than 1/3 of 1%) are chosen for this honor, recognizing outstanding contributions to statistics through research, teaching, practice and/or administration. Deb is the fourth of the Department's PhD recipients to be so honored:

SIDDHARTHA DALAL (1990), now at Xerox

DIANE LAMBERT (1991), now at Google

AMITA MANATUNGA (2004), professor at Emory U

DEBAJYOTI SINHA (2006), professor at Med U of SC.

Two have been similarly honored by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics:

DIANE LAMBERT (Google) and MOSHE SHAKED (U Arizona).

The Department takes pride in this recognition of its former students' accomplishments.  Among the approximately 50 PhD's awarded from the program's inception in 1969 through 1995 (allowing 10 years to have any opportunity to be considered for a Fellow nomination), the Department has had 10% of its graduates so honored in one or both of these professional organizations.