Rajeshwari Sundaram is an Indian biostatistician specializing in survival analysis and reproductive health who works at the National Institutes of Health as a senior investigator in the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.[1] Topics in her research have included the effects of obesity on fertility,[2] infant and early childhood screen time,[3] and the long-term persistence of postpartum depression.[4]
Rajeshwari Sundaram | |
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 Sundaram in 2020 | |
| Alma mater | University of Calcutta Indian Statistical Institute Michigan State University |
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| Fields | Survival analysis, reproductive health |
| Institutions | University of North Carolina at Charlotte Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development |
Education and career
editSundaram is a graduate of the University of Calcutta, and has a master's degree from the Indian Statistical Institute and a Ph.D. in statistics from Michigan State University.[1] Her 1999 dissertation, Estimation in the Two-Sample Doubly Censored and Randomly Truncated Scale Models, was supervised by Hira Koul.[5]
She became an assistant professor at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte before moving to the National Institutes of Health in 2006,[1] taking her present position in the Shriver Institute in 2014.[6]
She is the 2021 chair of the Risk Analysis Section of the American Statistical Association.[7]
Recognition
editSundaram was the 2020 winner of the Jeanne E. Griffith Mentoring Award of the Interagency Council on Statistical Policy, for her work with trainees at the National Institutes of Health.[6] She was also elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 2020, and is an elected member of the International Statistical Institute.[1]
References
edit- ^ a b c d "Rajeshwari Sundaram, Ph.D., M.S., Senior Investigator", Intramural Research Program, National Institutes of Health
- ^ Pallarito, Karen (3 February 2017), "Obese Couples May Take Longer to Conceive", HealthDay
- ^ Thomas, Liji (25 November 2019), "Screen time could be starting in infancy, says NIH study", News-Medical.Net
- ^ "Postpartum depression may last for years", NIH Research Matters, National Institutes of Health, 10 November 2020
- ^ Rajeshwari Sundaram at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ a b "Rajeshwari Sundaram Honored with 2020 Jeanne E. Griffith Mentoring Award", Amstat News, American Statistical Association, 1 August 2020, retrieved 2021-05-09
- ^ "Current 2021 Section Officers", ASA Risk Analysis Section, American Statistical Association, retrieved 2021-05-09