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Dr. P. Venkatesan

Current Position:

  • • Advisor-Research: Child Trust Medical Research Foundation, Chennai
  • • Visiting Professor: Sri Ramachandra University, Chennai

Previous:

  • • Scientist-F/Head- Department of Statistics, National Institute for Research in Tuberculosis, ICMR, Chennai
  • • Professor-Research-Department of Community Medicine, Sri Ramachandra University

Educational Qualification:

  • • M.Sc, M.Phil, PGCDM, PhD-University of Madras
  • • PGDipSQC&OR, SDS- Indian Statistical Institute
  • • MPS-International Institute of Population Sciences
  • • Post-Doc (Machine Learning & Computational Biology)-Brown University, USA
  • • S-Star Course Bioinformatics-National University, Singapore

Teaching/Research Experience:

  • 1. Teaching/ Research Experience : 36 years
  • 2. PhD Guiding Experience : 20 years
  • 3. Visiting Faculty. Centre for Statistical Science, Brown University, Sri Ramachandra Medical University, Chennai, Adjunct Professor: Manipal University,
  • 4. Teaching
Subjects Courses
Artificial Intelligence, Datamining, Health Informatics, Medical Informatics, System Biology, Computational Biology, Population Genetics, Genetic Epidemiology, Biostatistics, Research Methodology M.Sc- Medical Bioinformatics, Human Genetics),Biomed Sciences, MD/MS/MPH

PhD Guidance:

  • 1. Guided Scholars to the Award of PhD :35+
  • 2. MSc/MPhil/MTech Projects guided :80+
  • 3. Research Areas: Survival Analysis,Disease Modeling, HIV/AIDS Projections, Computational Biology, Machine Learning, Data Mining Rough Sets, Causal Inference, Bayesian Inference, Spatio-temporal Modeling.

Publications

  • 1. Published in referred Journals : 250+ (Citations-3046, h index-31, i10 ndex-55, RsearchGate Score-36.67 (97th percentile)
  • 2. National/International Conferences: 400+

Honors/Awards:

  • 1. FSMS- Elected Fellow of the Society of Medical Statisticians
  • 2. Fogarty Fellow/Visiting Faculty-Centre for Statistical Science, Brown University, USA
  • 3. “Life-Time Achievement Award” by “The Tamilnadu Dr. MGR Medical University” for the exemplary contribution to the cause of Medical Education and Health Research
  • 4. “Eminent Mathematician Award” by Biomathematics and Biostatistics Society
  • 5. “RN Srivastav Young Scientist Award” by Indian Society for Medical Statistics
  • 6. “Renowned Teacher Award” by Rotary Club International-Chennai

Academic/Research Committees:

  • 1. Chairman- Board of Studies:MSc ( Medical Bioinformatics)-Sri Ramachandra Medical University, Chennai.
  • 2. Member- Board of Studies: In the Tamilnadu State Universities-University of Madras, Bharathidasan, Periyar, Manonmaniam Sundaranar and 5 private Universities
  • 3. Chairman/Member Ethics Committee- 6 Institutes
  • 4. Editorial Board- 9 Journals

MEMBERSHIP:

  • 1. President - International Biometric Society(IR)
  • 2. President-Tamilnadu Statistical Association
  • 3. Past General Secretary- International Biometric Society, Indian Society for Medical Statistics
  • 4. Editor-ISMS Bulletin:2000-2003
  • 5. Executive Council member - International Biometric Society(IR)- 4 periods
  • 6. Awards Committee member-Travel Grant - International Biometric Society
Dr. P. Venkatesan