Ashwini Maurya

C401 Wells HallDepartment of Statistics and ProbabilityMichigan State UniversityEast Lansing, MI, 48824

Email: mauryaas@stt.msu.eduTel: (517) 802-7757

EDUCATION Ph.D., Statistics 07/2011-PresentDepartment of Statistics and Probability, Michigan State University, East Lans-ing, MIAdvisers: Dr. Hira KoulM.S., Statistics 07/2006-07/2008Department of Statistics, University of Pune, India.Adviser: Dr. TV RamanathanB.S., Statistics 09/2002-07/2005Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Gorakhpur University, India.

RESEARCHINTERESTS

Covaraince matrix estimation, High dimensional Data analysis.

PUBLICATIONS Peer-referred journal articles

1. Maurya, A., A joint Convex Penalty for Inverse Coavriance Matrix Esti-mation. (Journal of the Computational Statistics and Data Analysis)

2. Maurya, A., A well conditioned and Sparse estimation of covariance matrixusing a Joint penalty. Submitted

Working papers

1. Maurya, A. and Y.H. Cui. Eastmating Longitudinal Covariance Struc-ture in Functional Mapping of Quantitative Trait Loci using a Joint penaltyApproach. Under preparation.

TALKS &POSTERS

Contributed speaker A joint penalty for inverse covariance matrix esti-mation, JSM 2014.Contributed speaker A joint penalty for inverse covariance matrix esti-mation, IISA, Riverside, 2014.Invited poster A well conditioend and Sparse estimate of covariance matrixestimation using Joint Penalty., Statistics in Applications Symposium 2014,Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, October, 2014

TEACHING Independent Instructor (Summer 2012 & 2013) Course: Statistical Methods (STT 200) Department of Statistics and Probability, Michigan State University

Independent Instructor (Summer 2014 & 2015 )

Course: Statistical Methods (STT 315); Introduction to Probability andStatistics for Business

Department of Statistics and Probability, Michigan State University

Recitation Instructor (Fall 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, Spring 2012, 2013, 2014,2015)

Course: Statistical Methods (STT 315); Introduction to Probability andStatistics for Business

Department of Statistics and Probability, Michigan State University

Academic Assistant (April 2009-April 2010) Course: Probability and Statistics courses for Postgraduate courses. Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, India.

Teaching Instructor ( August 2008- March 2009) Course: Probability and Statistics courses for Undergraduate courses. Indian of Business Management and Research, Pune, India.

INDUSTRY Associate Consultant ( May 2010-July 2011) Genpact Analytics, Bangalore,India.

REFEREE Statistics and Probabilty lettersAnnals of Statistics.

HONORS Graduate Student Travel Award, Graduate School of Michigan State Uni-versity (March, 2014 & 2015)Pfizer Scholaship during M.S. Statistics, University of Pune (2006-2008)

MEMBERSHIP American Statistical AssociationInternational Indian Statistical Association

SKILLS Statistical Software: S-plus/R, Matlab, SAS, and MinitabData and Processing: Excel, nd LATEXLanguage: C/C++Operating System: Unix and Windows

REFERENCES

Dr. Hira Koul

Professor and ChairDepartment of Statistics and ProbabilityMichigan State University619 Red Cedar Road, Rm C435, East Lansing, MI, 48824Email: koul@stt.msu.eduPhone: (517) 432-1405

Dr. Yuehua Cui

Associate ProfessorDepartment of Statistics and ProbabilityMichigan State University619 Red Cedar Road, Rm C423, East Lansing, MI, 48824Email: cui@stt.msu.eduPhone: (517) 432-7098

Dr. Pramod Pathak

Visiting Assistant Professor/Teaching SpecialistDepartment of Statistics and ProbabilityMichigan State University619 Red Cedar Road, Rm C502, East Lansing, MI, 48824Email: pathakp@stt.msu.eduPhone: (517) 353-8900

SELECTEDCOURSES

Advanced Algebra Random Fields and Spatial StatisticsAsymptotic Theory Real AnalysisAdvanced Topics in Statistics Survival AnalysisModern Statistical Methods Theory of Probability I & IIMachine Learning Theory of Statistics I & IIMultivariate Analysis Time Series AnalysisConvergence of Measures and Stochas-tic Processes