Prof. Somesh Kumar

Prof. Somesh Kumar is a professor in the Department of Mathematics, IIT Kharagpur. He has over 30 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 and very popular. He has also taught Mathematics-I in QEEE program of MHRD to 130 engineering college students in online mode during Autumn 2014-2015. He offered the course “Probability and Statistics” for certification program in Jan-April 2016 and in Jan-April 2017. His lectures on “Probability” and “Permutation and combinations” for class XII students under IIT-PAL scheme of MHRD are also available through DTH channels of national television.His research interests are Statistical Decision Theory, Estimation Theory, Testing of Hypothesis, Classification Problems, Directional Distributions, Limit Theorems. He has published more than 80 research papers in refereed reputed international journals and book chapters. He has supervised ten Ph.D. students and more than two hundred Masters (M.Tech./ M.Sc./B.Tech.) dissertations.He has been guest professor in University of Ulm, Germany in July 2017 and June-July 2018. He is Principal Investigator for a major research project “Drone for Vaccine Delivery” funded by the Indian Council for Medical Research. He has delivered invited lectures in various universities in India and abroad.