Prof. Rama Shanker has completed his Bachelor, Master and Ph.D in Statistics from Department of Statistics, Patna University, Patna, India. He was awarded gold medal for first position at master examination in Patna University in 1996. He has completed his Ph.D in 2003 on the topic, “Generalized Logarithmic Series Distributions and Their Applications” under the supervision of Prof. Amarendra Mishra, Department of Statistics, Patna University, Patna, India. He has more than twenty years of teaching and research experience. Presently, he is working as Professor and Head, Department of Statistics, Eritrea Institute of Technology.

Prof. Shanker research interests include Distribution Theory, Modeling of Lifetime Data, Statistical Inference, Biostatistics, Reliability, Transportation and Assignment Problems. He has more than 80 research papers published in national and international journals of Statistics, Mathematics and Operations research. Some of his research papers are so popular that in many countries research scholars are working on their extension, modification and applications in different areas for completing their master and doctoral thesis.

Prof. Shanker is the founding head of Department of Statistics under College of Science at Eritrea Institute of technology, Asmara, Eritrea. He was also the founding Editor-in-Chief of “Eritrean Journal of Science and Engineering (EJSE)”, a biannual Science and Engineering Journal, published from Eritrea Institute of Technology, Eritrea.

Prof. Shanker is the international advisory Board members of research journals published from India, Singapore and USA and reviewers of research papers in distribution theory of many international journals of Statistics. He has been working as international advisory committee members of conferences/seminars in Statistics. He has delivered invited/plenary talks in international/national conferences/seminars in Statistics and Statistics related disciplines. He is the external examiner of Ph.D thesis in Statistics for different universities.

Recently Prof. Shanker has been invited as a chief guest for delivering a lecture on, “Statistics- A Key Technology for Social Transformation in 21^st century in Nilambar Pitambar university, Daltonganj, Jharkhand, India. He has also delivered a popular lecture on “How to get What you want” in the same university. 

Distribution Theory, Statistical Inference, Operations Research, Reliability and Survival Analysis, Bayesian Statistics, Biostatistics/Medical Statistics, Stochastic Processes, Decision Theory
 

Tu Xu received PhD in statistics from University of Illinois at Chicago and is serving as a biostatistician focusing on the late stage development of oncology compounds at AbbVie Inc. Prior to joining AbbVie, he has worked for other companies (Amgen, and Gilead Sciences) in the pharmaceutical industry. He has published multiple papers on the statistical research with application to clinical trials.  

Multiple testing, Adaptive design, Subgroup identification, Biomarker analysis