Dr. Pushkal Kumar is an Assistant Professor of Statistics in the CQEDS Department at BIT Mesra, Ranchi, Jharkhand, India. His area of research experience is in Bayesian Inference, Inference under Equality Restrictions, and Statistical Classification Problems. He received a PhD in Mathematical Statistics from the Mathematics Department at NIT Rourkela and a master's in Mathematics from NIT Rourkela. Previously, He worked as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Mathematics, SRM University, AP.  He has published 7 papers in International Journals and presented his research at several international conferences.

• Statistical Classification Problems
• Bayesian Inference 
• Statistical Inference Using Censored Data
• Decision Theory
• Computational Statistics

• Invited as a Reviewer in “International Conference on Recent Advances in Applied Sciences & Engineering (ICRAAE-2023)” organized by the Department of Basic Science held on 22 - 23 December 2023
• MHRD Institute PhD Fellowship (Aug 2018 – April 2023)
• Qualified JAM, GATE in Mathematics

• Estimation and Classification Using Progressive Type-II Censored Samples from Two Exponential Populations with a Common Location, Pushkal Kumar and Manas Ranjan Tripathy. Japanese Journal of Statistics and Data Science, DOI- 10.1007/s42081-023-00201-6,  Publisher- Springer.

• Classification Rules for Two Exponential Populations with Common Location and Ordered Scales Under Censored Samples, Pushkal Kumar and Manas Ranjan Tripathy. Journal of Statistical Theory and Practice, DOI - https://doi.org/10.1007/s42519-023-00332-9, Publisher- Springer. 

• Alternative Classification Rules for Two Inverse Gaussian Populations with a Common Mean and Order Restricted Scale-Like Parameters, Pushkal Kumar, Manas Ranjan Tripathy and Somesh Kumar. Journal of Applied Statistics, Publisher- Taylor & Francis, https://doi.org/10.1080/02664763.2022.2129044. 

• Bayesian Estimation and Classification for Two Logistic Populations with a Common Location, Pushkal Kumar, Manas Ranjan Tripathy and Somesh Kumar.Computational Statistics, Publisher- Springer, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00180-022-01247-y.

• Estimation and Classification Using Samples from Two Logistic Populations with a Common Scale Parameter, Pushkal Kumar, Manas Ranjan Tripathy. Notes in Electrical Engineering 2022, Publisher - Springer, https://10.1007/978-981-19-1824-7 14.

• Classification Rules for Two Exponential Populations with a Common Location Using Censored Samples, Pushkal Kumar, Manas Ranjan Tripathy. Statistica, Publisher- University of Bologna, https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.1973-2201/11507.

• Alternative Classification Rules for Two Normal Populations with a Common Mean and Ordered Variances Pushkal Kumar, Manas Ranjan Tripathy and Somesh Kumar. Communications in Statistics -Simulation and Computation, 51 (11), 6881-6901. Publisher- Taylor & Francis, https://doi.org/10.1080/03610918.2021.1931324.