Bibhas Chakraborty e-mail: bibhas@umich.edu

439 West Hall 550 East University Department of Statistics University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1285 Phone: 734-764-2646 Fax: 734-763-4676

Education

• PhD student, Department of Statistics, University of Michigan, 2003-Present.
• M.Stat, Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta, India, 2001-2003.
• B.Sc.(Statistics Honors), University of Calcutta, India, 1998-2001.

Research

My primary research interests are Dynamic Treatment Regimes, Reinforcement Learning, and Multi-stage Decisions, with application to problems in behavioral sciences. For my PhD thesis, I am working on statistical inference for Dynamic Treatment Regimes. My advisor is Dr. Susan A. Murphy, H. E. Robbins Professor of Statistics & Research Professor, Institute for Social Research. Also, I have recently worked on Experimental Design Strategies for Behavioral Intervention Research, jointly with Dr. Linda M. Collins, Dr. Susan A. Murphy, Dr. Vijayan N. Nair, and Dr. Victor J. Strecher.