Curriculum Vitae
Sayan Banerjee
25th December 2015
Personal Information
• Date of birth: 22nd May, 1987.
• Address: Department of Statistics, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, UK.
• Email: sayan.banerjee20@gmail.com, Sayan.Banerjee@warwick.ac.uk.
• Webpage: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/statistics/staff/academic-research/banerjee/
Education
• Ph.D. (Mathematics): University of Washington, Seattle, 2013.
• Master of Statistics: Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, 2010.
• Bachelor of Statistics: Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, 2008.
Employment
• Research Fellow at Department of Statistics, University of Warwick, 2013-Present. Mentor:
Wilfrid S. Kendall.
• Teaching Assistant at University of Washington, 2010-2013.
Research Interests
Random matrices, interacting particles, random walks in random environments, coupling properties of elliptic and hypoeliptic diffusions.
Publications and Preprints
• Gravitation versus Brownian motion (with K. Burdzy and M. Duarte). Submitted. Available
at http://arxiv.org/abs/1510.02328
• Coupling the Kolmogorov Diffusion: maximality and efficiency considerations (with W.S. Kendall). Advances in Applied Probability 48A (2016). Available at http://arxiv.org/abs/1506.
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• Rigidity for Markovian Maximal Couplings of Elliptic Diffusions (with W.S. Kendall). Submitted. Available at http://arxiv.org/abs/1412.2647
• Random mass splitting and a quenched invariance principle (with C. Hoffman). Accepted for
publication in Stochastic Processes and their Applications. Available at http://arxiv.org/
abs/1309.0768
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• The Brownian Conga Line. Probability Theory and Related Fields. DOI: 10.1007/s00440-0150649-1.
Available at http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00440-015-0649-1
• Heteroscedastic Wigner matrices. ISI technical reports. Available at http://www.isical.ac.
in/~statmath/html/publication/heterotechrep.pdf
• Noncrossing partitions, Catalan words, and the Semicircle Law (with A. Bose). Journal of
Theoretical Probability. June 2013, Volume 26, Issue 2, pp 386-409. Available at http://
link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10959-011-0365-4
• Brownian motion with boundary diffusion. Unpublished.
Doctoral Thesis
On Particle Interaction models. University of Washington, 2013. Thesis supervised by Krzysztof
Burdzy. Available at https://digital.lib.washington.edu/researchworks/handle/1773/25217
Awards
• Staff Merit Award for exceptional research, University of Warwick, 2015.
• Academic Excellence Award, by University of Washington, 2011.
• Mahalanobis International Symposium on Statistics Prize (Gold Medal) on having been selected
as the most outstanding Master of Statistics student in Indian Statistical Institute, 2010.
Invited and contributed talks
• Invited talks in probability seminars at Universities of Washington, Warwick, Bonn, Bath, York,
Sheffield, Oxford, Cambridge, ISI Kolkata.
• Invited talk at Seminar on Random Matrices, ISI Kolkata, in 2011.
• Contributed talk in 38th conference on Stochastic Processes and Applications, Oxford, in 2015.
• Contributed talk in Conference in honor of Jim Pitman, UCSD, in 2014.
• Contributed talk in Seminar on Stochastic Processes, Duke University, in 2013.
Other Conferences attended
• 60th birthday conference for Greg Lawler, Cambridge, 2015.
• UK-Japan Stochastic Analysis School, 2014.
• Durham Random Walks meeting, 2014.
• 60th birthday conference of Martin Barlow and Ed Perkins, 2013.
• University of British Columbia, Summer School in 2011.
• Pacific Northwest Probability Seminars 2010-2013.
Teaching
• Teaching Assistant for Calculus 120, 124, 125, 126 during 2010-2013 at University of Washington.
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• Course instructor for Calculus 126 in Summer quarter, 2013 at University of Washington.
• Assisting Prof. Wilfrid Kendall with ST910 Invitation to Graduate Probability (contributing
4-6 lectures), and associated Research Study group for MASDOC Centre for Doctoral Training
at University of Warwick.
Languages: English, Hindi, Bengali.
Computer Languages: C, MATLAB, R.
References
• Krzysztof Burdzy, Univ. of Washington, Seattle, USA. Email: burdzy@uw.edu
• Wilfrid S. Kendall, Univ. of Warwick, Coventry, UK. Email: w.s.kendall@warwick.ac.uk
• Christopher Hoffman, Univ. of Washington, Seattle, USA. Email: hoffman@math.washington.edu
• Zhen-Qing Chen, Univ. of Washington, Seattle, USA. Email: zqchen@uw.edu
• Arup Bose, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India. Email: bosearu@gmail.com
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