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.