Tumulesh Solanky, Ph. D (Statistics)

 

Chair and Professor

Department of Mathematics

University of New Orleans

Phone:(504)280-6117

Fax:(504)280-5516

Email: tsolanky@uno.edu

 

Education

Ph.D. (Statistics), University of Connecticut, 1990

M.Sc. (Mathematics), Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, India, 1987

B.Sc. (Mathematics, Honors Program), University of Delhi, India , 1985

 

Research Interest

Statistical computing, Statistical Consulting, Sequential Analysis, Selection and Ranking, Sampling, Biostatistics, and Clinical Trials. 

 

Current Teaching

Spring 2025: MATH 6373, Advanced Data Analytics

Office: MAT 248 and Math207 (Office Phone Number: 504-280-6117)

Office Hours: Monday and Wednesday: 12 noon to 2:00 pm.

Tuesday: 11:00 am to 1:00 pm

Also by appointment.

 

CURRENT PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:

Associate Editor : AJMMS (American Journal of Mathematical and Management Sciences), 2012-present.

Associate Editor: Sequential Analysis, 2003-present.

Associate Editor: Journal of Combinatorics, Information and System Sciences, 2003-present.

Associate Editor: Journal of the Indian Society of Agricultural Statistics, 2009-present.

Associate Editor: Statistical Methodology, 2010-2016.

Editor (Statistical Science): AJMMS (American Journal of Mathematical and Management Sciences), 2009-2012.

Reviewer: Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, Sequential Analysis, Metrika,

Communications in statistics, Statistics and Decisions, and others.

Member: Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS), Life member of the Forum for Interdisciplinary Mathematics.

 

SELECTED PAST PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:

President, Louisiana Chapter of American Statistical Association: 1994-1995.

Vice-President, Louisiana Chapter of American Statistical Association: 1993-1994.

Secretary, Louisiana Chapter of American Statistical Association: 1995-1996.

International Committee Chair: Abraham Wald Prize in Sequential Analysis for Best Paper: Sequential Analysis Journal. The first prize was awarded at JSM, 2005.

Also, chaired the international selection committee in the years 2006-2012..

Guest Editor: Special Volume of AJMMS (American Journal of Mathematical and Management Sciences) devoted to Selection and Ranking/MCP.

Symposium Organizer: Co-organized Symposium on Ranking and Selection Methodologies Multiple Comparison Procedures . The symposium was held

during the Pre-ICM International Convention on Mathematical Sciences, University of Delhi, December 2008.

Symposium Organizer: Co-organized a symposium at the Auburn University (December 2005) in my research area of Selection and Ranking/MCP. I also

chaired the symposium. The symposium was held during the SCMA 2005/FIM XII Conference.

 

 

 

PUBLICATIONS

 

Scholarly books:
(i.) Multistage Selection and Ranking Procedures: Second-Order Asymptotics, Marcel Dekker, Inc., ISBN No.: 0-8247-9078-2, (with N. Mukhopadhyay), 1994.

 

Refereed Scholarly book chapters:
(i.) On an improved accelerated sequential methodology with applications in selection and ranking, Frontiers in Probability and Statistics, Editors: S.P. Mukherjee, et al., 250-259, 1998, (with N. Mukhopadhyay).

 

(ii). Applications of Sequential Tests to Target Tracking by Multiple Models, Applied Sequential Methodologies, Marcel Dekker, edited by N. Mukhopadhyay, et al., 219-247, 2004, (with X. Rong Li).

 

 

Recent Refereed Publications

 

Discussion on Sequential Estimation for Time Series Models by T. N. Sriram and Ross Iaci, Sequential Analysis, 33(02), pp. 186 189, 2014.

On Two-stage comparisons with a control under heteroscedastic normal distributions, Methodology and Computing in Applied Probability, Volume 14, Number 3, Pages 501-522, 2012 (with N. Mukhopadhyay).

►Second-Order Asymptotics of a Fine-Tuned Unbalanced Purely Sequential Procedure For The Partition Problem, accepted for publication in Journal of Combinatorics, Information and System Sciences, vol. 36, 233-248, 2011.

►Discussion on Two-Stage Procedures for High-Dimensional Data by Makoto Aoshima and Kazuyoshi Yata, Sequential Analysis, 30(04), pp. 429 431, 2011.

►On Approximate Optimality of the Sample Size for the Partition Problem, Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods, 38:16, 3148 3157, 2009 (with Y. Wu).

Discussion on A Hybrid Selection and Testing Procedure with Curtailment by Elena M. Buzaianu and Pinyuen Chen, Sequential Analysis, 28:1, 38-40, 2009.

A two-stage procedure with elimination for partitioning a set of normal populations with respect to a control, Sequential Analysis, 25, 297-310, 2006.

On unbalanced multistage methodologies for the partition problem, Proceedings of the International Sri Lankan Statistical Conference: Visions of Futuristic Methodologies, 447-466, 2004 (with Y. Wu).

Predicting multivariate response in linear regression model, Communications in Statistics, Simulation & Computation, Vol. 32, No. 2, 389-409, 2003 (with M. Srivastava).
Multistage methodologies for comparing several treatments with a control, Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 100, No. 2, 209-220, (with N. Mukhopadhyay), 2002.

A sequential procedure with elimination for partitioning a set of normal populations having a common unknown variance, Sequential Analysis, Vol. 20 (4), 279-292, 2001.
Estimation of coating time in the magnetically assisted impaction coating process, Journal of Powder Technology I, 121, 159-167, 2001(P. Singh, T.K.S. Solanky, R. Mudryy, R. Pfeffer, and R. Dave).
Power comparison of some tests for detecting a change in the multivariate mean, Communications in Statistics, Simulation & Computation, Volume 30, Issue 1, 19--36 (2001) (with M. Srivastava and A.K. Sen).
Convection and local acceleration dominated regimes in Lennard-Jones liquids, Physics Letters A, 266, 11-18 (2000) (with P. Singh).



Personal Information

Married with two children

(Wife: Chhavi Solanky, DBA for LOPA;

Daughter: Maansi Solanky, 10th grade student at St. Martins;

Son: Bharat Singh Solanky, 8th grade student at St. Martins)

Pics of family: Pic 1 maansi_6_mon1.jpg

Pic 2 maansi_6_mon2.jpg

Pic 3 Bharat And I_2009.jpg

Pic 4 fathers day 2009.JPG

Pic 5 With UConn Husky 2009.jpg

Pic 6 Outside White House 2009.jpg

Pic 7 Family with Hilton Armstrong and Emeka Okafor [Bharat has NCAA championship shirt on

---which Emeka and Hilton won for UConn].

Pic 8 Chhavi with India's ex-president Dr. Kalam