Dr Nachiketa Chakraborty

Email:
n.chakraborty@reading.ac.uk
Job title:
Lecturer in Computer Science

Responsibilities:

Welcome Week Coordinator
Open Days and Offer Holder Days Joint Co-ordinatorЬ§
India Partnership Coordinator

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Office

Room 145Ь§

Building location

Polly Vacher

Areas of interest

Mathematics of Data Science
Ь§ Ь§ Ь§ Ь§- Causality
Ь§ Ь§ Ь§ Ь§- Signal processing / Time-Series Analysis
Ь§ Ь§ Ь§ Ь§- Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence
Ь§ Ь§ Ь§ Ь§- Graphical Models and Bayesian Inference
Physics
Ь§ Ь§ Ь§ Ь§- Solar and Astrophysics
Ь§ Ь§ Ь§ Ь§- Dynamical Systems Studies with Observations
Environmental Sciences
Ь§ Ь§ Ь§ Ь§- Space Weather
Ь§ Ь§ Ь§ Ь§- Climate

Teaching

Undergraduate (present):
т Data Integration and Information Visualisation тЬ§Module Convenor
Postgraduate (past and present):
т Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning т Module Convenor
т Causal Inference and Decision

Research centres and groups

Computer Science : Data Science and Artificial Intelligence, Advanced Computing for Environmental Science

Meteorology : Data Assimilation Research Centre (DARC), Solar Physics/Space Weather

Research projects

My research is at the intersection of mathematics of data science research and domains like physics and geosciences. I am interested in time-series studies, causal inference andЬ§artificial intelligence applied to learning from observational (time-domain) data.
A centralЬ§theme of my work is to develop and combine novel mathematical methods (modernЬ§statistical and machine-learning techniques) for extracting insights from data withЬ§conventional modelling approaches (theoretical and phenomenological) in aforementionedЬ§domains. With this unique foundation, I aim to build and train interdisciplinary researchersЬ§to tackle complex problems in this data-driven era of scientific research.

Background

Education:

Ь§ Ь§ Ь§ Ь§ Ь§ Ь§-University of Illinois (UIUC) Urbana, IL, USA

Ь§ Ь§ Ь§ Ь§ Ь§ Ь§ Ph.D. in Astronomy August 2013

Ь§ Ь§ Ь§ Ь§ Ь§ Ь§ Dissertation: тStandard Model Foregrounds in Nuclear and Particle Astrophysicsт,

Ь§ Ь§ Ь§ Ь§ Ь§ Ь§ Supervised by Prof. B. D. Fields

Ь§ Ь§ Ь§ Ь§ Ь§ Ь§ -Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) Mumbai, MH, India

Ь§ Ь§ Ь§ Ь§ Ь§ Ь§ Ь§M.Sc. in Physics July 2007

Ь§ Ь§ Ь§ Ь§ Ь§ Ь§ Dissertation: тLow Frequency GMRT Imaging of the field of RXCJ1516.3+0015т,

Ь§ Ь§ Ь§ Ь§ Ь§ Ь§ Ь§Supervised by Prof. R. Nityananda

Teaching:

Ь§ Ь§ Ь§ Ь§ Ь§ Ь§ -Undergraduate (past)

Ь§ Ь§ Ь§ Ь§ Ь§ Ь§ Ь§Mathematical Methods II (Advanced т for engineers and physicists)

Ь§ Ь§ Ь§ Ь§ Ь§ Ь§ Ь§Advanced Topics in Statistics

Ь§ Ь§ Ь§ Ь§ Ь§ Ь§-Postgraduate (past)

Ь§ Ь§ Ь§ Ь§ Ь§ Ь§ Ь§Introduction to Machine Learning

Ь§ Ь§ Ь§ Ь§ Ь§ Ь§ Ь§Introduction to Statistical Methods in Data Science

Academic qualifications

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Professional bodies/affiliations

тЂ Chair of 91ЕМКН Local Group in Royal Statistical Society (RSS), Fellow of RSS
тЂ Fellow of Royal Astronomical Society
тЂ Alumni of Alexander von Humboldt Foundation

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