"It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities."

Albus Dumbledore

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

About Me

I am a research associate at Harvard University T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Department of Biostatistics, working with Prof. John Quackenbush. My research interests primarily include Bayesian Statistics and Machine Learning with applications to Genomics, Epidemiology and Precision Medicine.

Before joining Harvard, I obtained my PhD from the University of Chicago, Department of Statistics in June, 2021.  My dissertation was titled "Flexible Bayesian Methods for High Dimensional Data".

Between June - August, 2020 I was a National Science Foundation Mathematical Sciences Graduate Intern at Argonne National Laboratory. Before joining the University of Chicago, I completed my Bachelor's (BStat) and Master's (MStat) degree, in Statistics from the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata.

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Contact: esaha@hsph.harvard.edu

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My PhD Genealogy Tree, courtesy the Mathematics Genealogy Project.