Dr Brijesh Kumar Jha

Visiting Assistant Professor, Data Science

PhD, Siksha ‘O’ Anusandhan (Deemed to be University)

Dr Brijesh Kumar Jha earned his PhD in Statistics from Siksha ‘O’ Anusandhan (Deemed to be University) in Bhubaneswar, Odisha. His research interests are rooted in Statistical Inference, with a particular focus on point estimation, Bayesian estimation, and decision theory. He completed his undergraduate studies in Mathematics and Computing at the Institute of Mathematics and Applications, Bhubaneswar, and later pursued a postgraduate degree in Statistics from Utkal University, Bhubaneswar.

His PhD thesis focused on the estimation of hazard rates in selected populations, comparing exponential and Pareto distributions using a decision-theoretic approach. Dr Jha conducted postdoctoral research at IIT Bhubaneswar under Dr Akash Ashirbad Panda in an INSPIRE-funded project, where he worked on estimating drift and diffusion coefficients of a Stochastic Differential Equation involving Levy Noise. Currently, Dr Jha is engaged in research on queuing theory and is eager to explore new avenues in Econometrics.