Prof. Somesh Kumar

Prof. Somesh Kumar is a professor in the Department of Mathematics, IIT Kharagpur. He has over 27 years of experience of teaching courses on Probability Statistics, Statistical Inference, Sampling Theory, Stochastic Processes, Multivariate Analysis, Regression analysis, Time Series, Experimental Designs, Decision Theory to undergraduate, postgraduate and doctorate students. His NPTEL courses (under MHRD) on Probability and Statistics, Statistical Inference and Statistical Methods for Scientists and Engineers (each of 40 hours) are available online. He has also taught Mathematics-I in QEEE program of MHRD to 130 engineering college students in online mode during Autumn 2014-2015. His research interests are Statistical Decision Theory, Estimation Theory, Classification Problems, Directional Distributions. He has published more than 60 research papers in reputed international journals. He has supervised eight doctoral and more than a hundred and fifty Masters (M.Tech. and M.Sc.) dissertations.