Rajeshwari Sundaram | |
|---|---|
 Sundaram in 2020 | |
| Alma mater | University of Calcutta Indian Statistical Institute Michigan State University |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Survival analysis, reproductive health |
| Institutions | University of North Carolina at Charlotte Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development |
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]
Education and career[edit | edit source]
Sundaram 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[edit | edit source]
Sundaram 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 | edit source]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 "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
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 "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