Anwesha Chakravarti
Credentials: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Position title: PhD Student
Email: anwesha5@illinois.edu
Anwesha is currently a Ph.D. student in the Department of Statistics at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Previously, she received a Bachelors and Masters in Statistics from the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata. Her research interests include developing methodologies and algorithms for high dimensional data and applying novel statistical models to real life applications. She is currently developing models to help the Mosquito Abatements Districts (MADs) and the other health departments in Illinois to control the spread of West Nile Virus infections. In her free time, she enjoys dancing, playing the keyboard and travelling.