DEPARTMENT OF STATISTICS

OUR DEPARTMENTS

Dr. Nicy Sebastian, M.Sc., Ph.D.

Email

  • nicycms[@]gmail.com

Education

  • 2009 – 2012 Doctor of Philosophy in Statistics (Ph.D), Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India.
  • 2004 – 2006 Post Graduation in Statistics, St Thomas College, Pala, Kerala, India.
  • 2001 – 2004 Graduation in Mathematics, St George College, Aruvithura, Kerala, India.

Positions held

  • 2012 – 2014 Visiting Scientist, Indian Statistical Institute, Chennai centre, CIT Campus, Taramani, Chennai, India.
  • 2009 – 2012 Senior research fellow (DST), Centre for Mathematical Sciences (CMS), Pala Campus, Kerala, India.
  • 2007 – 2009 Junior research fellow (DST), Centre for Mathematical Sciences (CMS), Pala Campus, Kerala, India.

Research Interests

  • Distribution theory, Reliability analysis, Time series, Multivariate analysis, Fractional calculus, Special functions.

Awards/Success

  • Selected FLAIR Programme 2018-2019, Department of Higher Education, Government of Kerala
  • Won the Young Statistician Award of Kerala Statistical Association in 2009.
  • Third prize, 2008 DST SERC School

Professional Activities

  1. Life time member of the Indian Science Congress Association.
  2. Life time member of Society for Special Functions and Their Applications.
  3. Life time member of the Kerala Statistical Association.
  1. Member Board of Studies in Statistics (UG & PG), St.Thomas College (Autonomous), Thrissur.

Ph.D. Students

Deepthy G S, On Families of BurrIII Modified Weibull Distribution

Research Papers

  1. Nicy Sebastian, Arak M. Mathai and Hans J. Haubold (2021) Entropy Optimization, Maxwell–Boltzmann, and Rayleigh Distributions, Entropy, 23(6), 754. org/10.3390/e23060754
  2. G S Deepthy, Nicy Sebastian and Reshma Rison (2020) Some Properties and Applications of Burr III-Weibull Distribution, Proceedings of National Seminar in Applied Statistics and Symposium on Stochastic Modelling, 97-112.
  3. Sebastian, N. Rasin R. S. and Silviya P. O  (2019) Topp-Leone Generator Distributions and its Applications, Proceedings of National Conference on Advances in Statistical Methods, 127-139.
  4. Nair, S. S. and Sebastian, N., (2019)  On generalized q-logistic distributions and its characterizations, Proceedings of the seventeenth Annual Conference of the Society for Special Functions and their Applications, 17, 55-64.
  5. Sebastian, N. and Gorenflo, R., (2016)  Time series models associated with Mittag-Leffler type distributions and its properties, Communications in Statistics Theory and Methods,  45(24), 7210-7225.
  6. Sebastian, N. and Gorenflo, R., (2016) Fractional differentiation of the product of Bessel functions of the first kind, Analysis, 36(1), 39-48.
  7. Sebastian, N., Nair, S. S. and Joseph, D. P, (2015)  An Overview of the Pathway Idea and Its Applications in Statistical and Physical Sciences, Axioms, 2015, 4(1), 530-553.
  8. Sebastian, N. (2015). Limiting approach to generalized gamma Bessel model via fractional calculus and its applications in various disciplines. Axioms, 4, 385-399.
  9. Sebastian, N. (2014). Generalized pathway entropy and its applications in diffusion entropy analysis and fractional calculus, Communications in Applied and Industrial Mathematics, 6, No.2, doi: 10.1685/journal.caim.537.
  10. Sebastian, N. (2011). On multivariate generalized gamma Bessel model, Proceedings of Discrete Mathematics and Computational Statistics.
  11. Sebastian, N. (2011). Certain properties of Saigo-operator associated with generalized hyper geometric function, Proceedings of the International Conference on Mathematical Sciences, 93-112.
  12. Sebastian, N. (2011). A generalized gamma model associated with a Bessel function, Integral Transforms and Special functions, 22(9), 631-645.
  13. Kilbas, A. A. and Sebastian, N. (2010). Fractional integration of the product of Bessel functions of the first kind, Fractional Calculus and Applied Analysis, 13(2), 159-175.
  14. Sebastian, N. (2010). An overview of generalized gamma model associated with Bessel function, Proceedings of the National workshop on Fractional calculus and Statistical distributions, CMS Publication No. 41, 33-46.
  15. Sebastian, N. (2009). A generalized gamma model associated with Bessel function and its applications in statistical mechanics, Proceedings of AMADE-09, Belarus, 114-119.
  16. Sebastian, N. (2009). Some statistical aspects of fractional calculus, Journal of Kerala Statistical Association, 20, 23-33.
  17. Sebastian, N. (2008). Certain fractional integral and differential operators on modified Bessel function of the first kind, STARS: Int.Journal(Sciences), 2, No.1, 50-64.
  18. Kilbas, A. A. and Sebastian, N. (2008). Generalized fractional differentiation of Bessel function of the first kind, Mathematica Balkanica (New Series), 22( 3-4), 323-346.
  19. Kilbas, A. A. and Sebastian, N. (2008). Generalized fractional integration of Bessel function of the first kind, Integral Transforms and Special functions, 19, (12) , 869-883.
  20. Nicy Sebastian, Jeena Joseph and Princy T., A Reliability Test Plan for Type I Topp-Leone Generated q-Exponential Distribution and its Applications, (submitted).
  21. Nicy Sebastian and A.M. Mathai, On Distributions of Covariance Structures, (submitted).
  22. Rajitha V R and Nicy Sebastian, Some Properties Associated with Topp Leone Exponential and Topp Leone Exponential Distributions. arxiv.org/abs/2103.03723 (submitted).
  23. Nicy Sebastian and Akshara.K. S, Some Properties Associated with Topp Leone Exponential and Topp Leone Exponential Distributions. (submitted).
  24. Nicy Sebastian and Rhea Davis, Maximization of Mathai’s Entropy under the Constraints of Generalized Gini Index and its Applications. (submitted).
  25. Krishna Mukundan P, Nicy Sebastian,  Dhannya P. Joseph and  Seema S Nair, Bayesian Estimation of Rayleigh Distribution under Different Loss Function and Prior Distribution. (work in progress).
  26. Nicy Sebastian and Hans J. Haubold, Super-Kamiokande Solar Neutrinos: Diffusion Entropy Analysis and Fractional Calculus (work in progress).
  27. Deepthy G S and Nicy Sebastian, A New Life Time Distribution: Burr III Modified Weibull Distribution and its Application in Realibility Analysis. (work in progress).

Book(s) edited

  1. APPLIED STATISTICAL TECHNIQUES AND STOCHASTIC MODELLING, Proceedings of National Seminar in Applied Statistics and Symposium on Stochastic Modelling, NSASSSM-2020. ISBN 978-81-944730-1-5
  2. Proceedings of National Seminar on Statistical Approaches in Data Science, 2019. ISBN: 978-81-935819-2-6
  3. Proceedings of the national workshop on fractional calculus and statistical distributions, DST CMS Publication No. 41, 2009.

Conferences/Seminar/Workshop Presented

  1. National Seminar in Applied Statistics and Symposium on Stochastic Modelling held at Dept. of Statistics, St. Thomas College, Thrissur during February 04-06, 2020.
  2. National Seminar on Statistical Approaches in Data Science held at Dept. of Statistics, St. Thomas College, Thrissur during February 06-07, 2019.
  3. International Conference on Special Functions and Applications -2018 Organized by the Society for Special function and their Applications held during 22-23 November 2018 at Kanjirappally,
  4. National Conference on Advances in Statistical Methods held at the Department of Statistical Sciences, Kannur University, Kannur during November 8-10, 2018.
  5. National Conference on Applied Mathematics held at Dept. of Mathematics, St. Thomas College, Thrissur during February 27-28, 2015.
  6. National Seminar on Recent Advances in Statistical Theory and its Applications held at Dept. of Statistics, St. Thomas College, Thrissur during February 25-26, 2015.
  7. National Conference on Interdisciplinary Realms of Statistics held at Sree Kerala Varma College, Thrissur during January 9-10, 2015.
  8. Orientation Program for UG students at The Department of Statistics, Govt. College for Women, Thiruvananthapuram on 8th August 2014.
  9. Orientation Program conducted by Indian Statistical Institute, Chennai and Farook College, at Farook College Kozhikode during 20-24 December 2013.
  10. International Conference on Special Functions and Their Applications (ICSFA-2011) & Symposium on Works of Ramanujan held during July 28-30, 2011 at Jodhpur.
  11. International Conference on New Trends in Life Testing, Bayesian Inference, Sampling theory, Bio-Statistics, Bio-Informatics and Computer Applications held at the Department ofStatistics, Benaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India, from 5-8 January 2011.
  12. International Conference on Mathematical Sciences in Honour of Professor A. M. Mathai Heldat Department of Statistics St Thomas College Pala, Kerala, India from 3-5 January 2011.
  13. National Conference on Advances in Statistical Theory and Applications held by Bangalore University, Bangalore during November 16-18, 2011.
  14. National Seminar on Discrete Mathematics and Computational Statistics held at the Department of Mathematics, Bishop Kurialacherry College forWomen, Kottayam, Kerala, from 23-24, June 2011.
  15. 97th Indian Science Congress held at the University of Kerala, Thiruvananthapuram, from 3-7 January 2010.
  16. National Workshop on Fractional Calculus and Statistical Distributions held at CMS Pala Campus, Kerala, from November 25-27, 2009.
  17. 14th Annual Conference of Gwalior Academy of Mathematical Sciences and a Symposium on Computational Mathematics and its Application to Engineering, Management and Biology, held at IPS College of Technology and Management, (IPS CTM) Gwalior, from 17-19 July 2009.
  18. 11th Annual Conference of the Society of Statistics, Computer and Applications held at Department of Statistics, University of Madras, from 24-26 February 2009.
  19. 96th Indian Science Congress held at NEHU, Shilong, from 3-7 January 2009.
  20. National Meet of Research Scholars in Mathematical Sciences held at IIT Kanpur, U.P., from 6-10 December 2008.

Conferences/Seminar/Workshop Attended

  1. Research, consultancy and startup how to go about it? , Webinar , IQAC , National , 16-06-2021.
  2. National Webinar on Statistical Sciences , Webinar , Department of Statistics, University of Calicut. , National , 08-03-2021.
  3. National Webinar on The Recent Developments in Statistics and Probability – 2021. Webinar , Department of Statistics, St. Thomas’ College (Autonomous) , National , 18-02-2021 .
  4. National Webinar on National Education Policy , Webinar , IQAC< St Thomas College, Thrissur , National , 18-08-2020 .
  5. Webinar on Research and Publication Ethics , Webinar , IQAC, St Thomas College, Thrissur , National , 06-08-2020 .
  6. What is Clinical Trial?: How does it work? , Webinar , Bishop Chulaparambil Memorial College, Kottayam , International , 24-07-2020.
  7. National Webinar on Linear Regression , Webinar , Department of Mathematics, Dr. Shivanand Nautiyal Govt. P. G. College, Karanprayag (Chamoli) UK. , National , 15-06-2020 .
  8. Webinar on Managing Academic Research and Publishing in Top-tier Journals , Webinar , Department of Statistics, St.Thomas’ College (Autonomous), Thrissur , National , 05-06-2020 .
  9. Workshop on Sample Size Determination Using G-power Software , Webinar , Department of Statistics, St. John’s College, Agra , National , 23-05-2020 , St. John’s College, Agra.
  10. National Web based seminar on recent trends in statistical theory and applications 2020, 29 June-01 July, 2020.
  11. Three Day Faculty Development Programme, 2020 June 3,4,6
  12. National Seminar in Applied Statistics and Symposium on Stochastic Modelling,Feb 4-6, 2020
  13. One Day Seminar on Demography and Gender studies, 11/07/2019.
  14. National Seminar on Statistical Approaches in Data Science held at St. Thomas College, Thrissur during February 6-7, 2019.
  15. Workshop on Reliability Theory and Survival Analysis Organized by SQC & OR Unit held at ISI Bangalore during November 28-30, 2018.
  16. NationalWorkshop on Computational Mathematics and Statistics held at Government Victoria College, Palakkad during October 22-23, 2018.
  17. Lecture Series in Statistics and its Applications organized by St. Thomas college, Thrissur on18th August 2018.
  18. National Workshop on Statistical Data Analysis Using R held at Government Victoria College, Palakkad during December 4-5, 2017.
  19. Moodle Training Workshop at St. Thomas College Thrissur on 18th July 2017.
  20. National Seminar on Statistical Techniques in Applied Areas held at St. Thomas College, Thrissur during February 27-28, 2017.
  21. National Colloquium organized by St.Thomas College Thrissur during March 7-8, 2017.
  22. National Statistics Day Celebrations conducted by NSSO, Ministry of Statistics and PI, Govt of India on 29th June 2016.
  23. National Workshop on Research Methodology & Statistical Analysis using IBM SPSS held at Dept. of Statistics, St. Thomas College, Thrissur during November 20-21, 2015.
  24. National Seminar on Research-Expectations & Extensions organized by Research Council held at St. Thomas College, Thrissur on 19th, March, 2015.
  25. National conference on Applied Mathematics, held at St. Thomas College, Thrissur during February 27-28, 2015.
  26. National Seminar on Recent advances in Statistical Theory and its Applications held at St. Thomas College, Thrissur during February 25-26, 2015.
  27. State Level Workshop On Statistical Computing Using R held at Dept. of Statistics, St. Thomas College, Thrissur during November 20-21, 2014.
  28. Workshop on New Directions in Probability held at Indian Statistical Institute(ISI), Bangalore, from 30th May-4th June 2013.
  29. Workshop on Heavy-tailed distributions and extreme value theory held at Indian Statistical Institute(ISI), Kolkata, from 14-17 January 2013.
  30. Workshop on Topics in Probability held at Chennai Mathematical Institute (CMI), from 18-20 December 2012.
  31. International Conference on Statistics,Probability and Related Area held at Cochin University of Science and Technology, from 19-22 December 2011.
  32. International Congress of Mathematicians, held at Hyderabad Central University, Hyderabad, from 19-27 August 2010.
  33. Advanced Instructional School in Weak Convergence with Applications in Statistics, held at Pune University, Pune, from 01-25 June 2010.
  34. CMS 2nd series 3rd SERC school, Matrix Variable Calculus and Statistical Distribution Theory from 12th April to14th May 2010.
  35. National Workshop on Bayesian Statistics & MCMC Methods using BUGS & R, held at St Thomas College Pala, Kerala, from 26-30 June 2009.
  36. CMS 2nd series 2nd SERC school, Model Building from 20th April to 22nd May 2009.
  37. Workshop of Advanced training in Non-convex Optimization and its Applications, held at Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, from 22-26 March 2009.

Organization of Conferences/Seminar/Workshop

  1. Opportunità di lavoro 2021
  2. National Webinar on The Recent Developments in Statistics and Probability – 2021
  3. National Seminar in Applied Statistics and Symposium on Stochastic Modelling -2019
  4. One day Seminar on Demography and Gender Statistics-2019
  5. Statistics Day Celebration-2019
  6. National Seminar on Statistical Approaches in Data Science-2019
  7. National Workshop on Probability and statistics-2018

Seminars/Invited Talks

  • International Conference on Fractional Calculus, Probability and Non-local Operators: Applications and Recent Developments held at Basque Center for Applied Mathematics, Bilbao, Basque Country, Spain, from 6-8 November 2013.
  • 97th Indian Science Congress held at the University of Kerala, Thiruvananthapuram, from 3-7, January 2010.
  • Fifth International Conference of Analytical Methods of Analysis and Differential Equations held at Minsk, Belarus, from 14-19 September 2009.

Extensions

  • OPPORTUNITÀ DI LAVORO- career opportunities
  • URJA KIRAN – Energy conservation programme
  • National Statistics Day Celebrations

Industrial/Institution Visit

  • Indian Statistical Institute, Chennai
  • Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore
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