Nalini Ravishanker
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Nalini Ravishanker is an Indian-American statistician whose work focuses mainly on time series analysis. She is a professor of statistics at the University of Connecticut.{{Cite web |last= |first= |title=Nalini Ravishanker, Department of Statistics, University of Connecticut, Person |url=https://statistics.uconn.edu/person/nalini-ravishanker/ |access-date=12 May 2025}} Her interests in methodology and applications of statistics are evident from her large body of work, spreading across various disciplines like finance, insurance, marketing, transportation, reliability, marine science, ecology and environmental science, biomedical sciences, civil engineering, and computer engineering. She has published more than 150 articles in peer reviewed journals, and has published four books.{{Cite web |last= |first= |date= |title=Nalini Ravishanker, Department of Statistics, University of Connecticut, Publications |url=https://nalini-ravishanker.scholar.uconn.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/1677/2024/07/All-Publications.pdf |archive-date= |access-date=12 May 2025}}
Education and Career
Ravishanker graduated with a B.Sc in statistics from Presidency College, Chennai (India) where she was awarded the Bysani Chetty gold medal for being the 1st ranked in B.Sc.{{Cite web |title=Nalini Ravishanker, Department of Statistics, University of Connecticut CV |url=https://nalini-ravishanker-scholar.media.uconn.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/1677/2024/01/vita-July-2024.pdf |access-date=12 May 2025}} After her graduation, she moved to the USA to pursue a Ph.D. in statistics from New York University, where she was one of the early recipients of the Paul Willensky Scholarship Award. Immediately after her Ph.D, she was associated with IBM Research, Yorktown Heights as an independent consultant, and later as a visiting scientist.
Ravishanker joined the Department of Statistics at the University of Connecticut in 1989 as a member of Faculty, and she has been there ever since.{{Cite web |title=Nalini Ravishanker, Department of Statistics, University of Connecticut, Education and Academic Positions |url=https://nalini-ravishanker.scholar.uconn.edu/education-and-academic-positions/ |access-date=12 May 2025}} At the University of Connecticut, she was the undergraduate program director in the statistics department for 25+ years, advising statistics and mathematics-statistics majors and statistics minors.{{Cite web |title=Nalina Ravishanker, Department of Statistics, University of Connecticut, UG Advising |url=https://nalini-ravishanker.scholar.uconn.edu/ug-advising/ |access-date=12 May 2025}} She has also advised and co-advised more than 20 Ph.D students.{{Cite web |title=Nalini Ravishanker, Department of Statistics, University of Connecticut, PhD Students |url=https://nalini-ravishanker.scholar.uconn.edu/student/ |access-date=12 May 2025}} She has conducted numerous workshops and given lectures on statistics in several universities, institutions, and industries across the globe. Currently, she serves on the Steering Committee for the Masters in Data Science program and teaches in-person and online courses.{{Cite web |title=University of Connecticut, Master of Data Science, Faculty |url=https://masters.datascience.uconn.edu/faculty/ |access-date=12 May 2025}}
Ravishanker is a fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA),{{Cite web |title=ASA Fellows |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250418055355/https:/ww2.amstat.org/fellows/ |access-date=12 May 2025}} the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS),{{Cite web |title=AAAS Elected Fellows |url=https://www.aaas.org/fellows/listing |access-date=12 May 2025}} and an elected member of the International Statistical Institute (ISI).{{Cite web |title=ISI Elected Members |url=https://isi-web.org/our-members?role=elected&country=All&alphabet=R#scroll-to-form |access-date=12 May 2025}} Ravishanker is the President-Elect of the ISI for 2025-2027, with her term as President for 2027-2029.{{Cite web |title=ISI Officers 2024 Election Results |url=https://isi-web.org/article/isi-officers-elections-2024-results |access-date=12 May 2025}} She served as President of the International Society for Business and Industrial Statistics (ISBIS) from 2017 to 2019.{{Cite web |title=ISBIS HIstory |url=https://isbis-isi.org/isbis/new-history/ |access-date=12 May 2025}} She has been on the editorial board of many prestigious journals, was Co-Editor-in-Chief of the International Statistical Review,{{Cite web |title=International Statistical Review Editorial Board |url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal/17515823/homepage/editorialboard.html |access-date=12 May 2025}} and is the current Editor-in-Chief of Applied Stochastic Models in Business and Industry (ASMBI) journal.{{Cite web |title=Journal of Applied Stochastic Models in Business and Industry |url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/15264025 |access-date=12 May 2025}}
Publications
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- Ravishanker, N., Raman, B., and Soyer, R. (2022). Dynamic Time Series Models using R-INLA: An Applied Perspective. Chapman & Hall/CRC: New York. ISBN 978-0-367-65427-6 (hbk); ISBN 978-0-367-68062-6 (pbk); ISBN 978-1-003-13403-9 (ebk).
- Ravishanker, N., Chi, Z., and Dey, D. K. (2021). A First Course in Linear Model Theory. Chapman & Hall/CRC: New York, Second edition. ISBN 978-1-439-85805-9 (hbk); ISBN 978-1-032-10139-2 (pbk); ISBN 978-1-315-15665-1 (ebk). Click this link for errata.
- Ravishanker, N. and Dey, D. K. (2001). A First Course in Linear Model Theory. Chapman & Hall/CRC: New York. ISBN 1-58488-247-6. Click this link for errata.
- Davis, R. A., Holan, S. H., Lund, R. and Ravishanker, N. (2016). Handbook of Discrete-Valued Time Series. Chapman & Hall/CRC: New York. ISBN 9781466577732 –CAT# K16804
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External links
- [http://merlot.stat.uconn.edu/~nalini/ Home page]
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