RESUME. 1. Name Harshinder Singh

Transcription

1 May, 2003 RESUME 1. Name Harshinder Singh 2. Address Research Professor Department of Statistics West Virginia University Morgantown, WV Date of Birth August 4, Educational Qualifications: (i) Ph.d in Statistics (ii) M.A. Subject Division Position (iii) B.Sc (with Hons. in Math) Division Position (iv) Foreign Languages: Panjab University, Chandigarh, 1978 Panjab University, Chandigarh, 1972 Statistics First First in the University (awarded medal) Punjabi University Patiala, 1970 First First in Hons. Math. (awarded medal) Certificate Course in German, Panjab University, Division: First, Position: First. Certificate Course in French, Panjab University, Division: First.

2 5. Teaching Experience 28 years 6. Professor, Department of Statistics, Panjab University, Chandigarh (India), Chairman Department of Statistics, Panjab University, Chandigarh, April 1984 to March Editor, Journal of Indian Society of Probability and Statistics, Member UGC Panel in Statistics, Elected member of the International Statistical Institute. 11. Member Governing Council, Indian Statistical Association, , 1996, Number of students guided for Ph.d degree : Co-ordinator UGC (SAP) schemes sanctioned to the Department of Statistics, Panjab University, Dean Student Welfare, Panjab University, Dean Foreign Students, Panjab University, Visiting Assignments: (i) Visiting Research Professor, West Virginia University, August 1998 to July (ii) National University of Ireland, Dublin, Ireland, as a Visiting Professor, August 2002, July 2001 and July (iii) University of Pittsburgh, USA, as a Visiting Professor, summer 1998, session , spring and summer semesters, 1994.

3 (iv) University of Illinois at Chicago, USA, as a Visiting Professor for the fall semester (v) University of Guelph, Canada, as a Visiting Professor, summer (vi) University of New Brunswick, Canada, as a Visiting Scientist summer (vii) University of Poona as a Visiting Fellow, summer (viii) Indian Statistical Institute, New Delhi, summer 1984 and PUBLICATIONS 1. Comparing partition and random testing via majorization and Schur functions. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 29(2003), (with P. J. Boland and B. Cukic). 2. Order restricted estimators: Some bias results. Statistics and Probability Letters, 61(2003), (with A. R. Sampson and L. Whitaker). 3. Probabilistic model for two dependent circular variables. Biometrika, 89(2002), (with V. Hnizdo and E. Demchuk). 4. Min and max scorings for two sample partially ordered categorical data. Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 107(2002), (with A. R. Sampson). 5. Stochastic orders in partition and random testing of software. Journal of Applied Probability, 39(2002), (with P. J. Boland and B. Cukic). 6. A criterion for burn-in which balances mean residual life and residual variance. Operations Research, 50(2002), (with H. Block and T. H. Savits). 7. Estimating distributions with increasing failure rate in an imperfect repair model. Lifetime Data Analysis, 8(2002), (with P. H. Kvam and

4 L. Whitaker). 8. Determining the optimal release time for software in the geometric Poisson reliability model. International Journal of Reliability, Quality and Safety Engineering, 9(2002), (with P. J. Boland). 9. Null distribution of the likelihood ratio statistic for feed-forward neural networks. Journal of Modern Applied Statistical Methods, 1(2002), (with D. Landsittel, V. C. Arena and S. J. Anderson). 10. Automated generation of test trajectories for embedded control systems. International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering, 12(2002), (with B. Cukic and B. Taylor). 11. Comment on Fay, M. P. (2002), Measuring a binary response s range of influence in logistic regression. The American Statistician, 56(2002), (with D. Landsittel, V. C. Arena and S. J. Anderson). 12. Iso-chi squared testing of 2Xk ordered tables. Canadian Journal of Statistics, 29(2001), (with A. R. Sampson and S. Gautam). 13. On non-parametric estimation of the survival function with competing risks. Scandinavian Journal of Statistics, 28(2001), (with P. H. Kvam). 14. Statistical thermodynamics of hindered rotation from computer simulations. Molecular Physics, 99(2001), (with E. Demchuk). 15. Testing uniform stochastic ordering for survival functions. Communications in Statistics, Theory and Methods, 29(2000), (with R. S. Singh and S. Qian). 16. Fisher information in weighted distributions. Canadian Journal of Statistics, 27(1999), (with S. Iyengar and P. Kvam). 17. A subset selection procedure based on randomly censored data. Statistics and Decisions, 4(1999), (with N. Kumar and H. J. Khamnei).

5 18. Nonparametric estimation of the survival function based on censored data with additional observations from the residual life distribution. Statistica Sinica, 9(1999), (with P. Kvam and R. C. Tiwari). 19. Estimation after subset selection from exponential populations : The location parameter case. American Journal of Mathematical and Management Sciences, 18(1998), (with R. Anand and N. Misra). 20. The reversed hazard rate function. Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences, 12(1998), (with H. W. Block and T. H. Savits). 21. Estimating reliability of components with increasing failure rate using series system data. Naval Research Logistics, 45(1998), (with P. Kvam). 22. Preservation of some partial orderings under the formation of coherent systems. Statistics and Probability Letters, 39(1998), (with A. Nanda and K. Jain). 23. On allocation of spares at component level versus system level. Journal of Applied Probability, 34(1997), (with R. S. Singh). 24. On allocation of resources to nodes of series systems with respect to failure rate ordering. Naval Research Logistics, 14(1997), (with R. S. Singh). 25. On closure of some partial orderings under mixtures. Journal of Applied Probability, 33(1996), (with A. K. Nanda and K. Jain). 26. Properties of moments for s-order equilibrium distribution. Journal of Applied Probability, 33(1996), (with A. K. Nanda and K. Jain). 27. Optimal replacement of improving and deteriorating repairable systems. IEEE Transactions on Reliability, 14(1995), (with J. V. Deshpande). 28. Componentwise estimation of ordered parameters of k 2 exponential populations. Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics,

6 47(1995), (with G. Vijayasree and N. Misra). 29. Testing for second order stochastic dominance of two distributions. Econometric Theory, 10(1994), (with B. L. S. Prakasa Rao and A. Kaur). 30. On redundancy allocations in systems. Journal of Applied Probability, 31(1994), (with N. Misra). 31. Estimation of ordered location parameters: The exponential distribution. Statistics, 25(1994), (with N. Misra). 32. Estimation of largest location parameter of exponential distributions. Communications in Statistics (Theory and Methods), 23(1994) (with N. Misra). 33. Solution of an optimization problem arising in maximum likelihood estimation of ordered distributions. Sankhya Series A, 55(1993), (with Prem S. Puri and J. C. Parnami). 34. A sequential procedure of estimation of ordered means of two exponential populations. Sankhya Series A, 55(1993), (with J. C. Parnami). 35. Estimation of the smaller and larger scale parameters of two uniform distributions. Statistics and Decisions, 3(1993), (with N. Misra and R. Anand). 36. Mixed estimators of two ordered exponential means. Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 35(1993), (with G. Vijayasree). 37. Preservation of some ageing properties by order statistics. Probability in Engineering and Information Sciences, 7(1993), (with N. Misra and M. Manoharan). 38. A test for Lorenz ordering between two distributions. Statistics and Probability: A Raghu Raj Bahadur Festchrift, Wiley Eastern (1993), Eds. J. K. Ghosh et al., (with B. K. Kale).

7 39. Estimation of parameters of an exponential distribution when the parameter space is restricted with an application to two sample problem. Communications in Statistics (Theory and Methods), 22(1993), (with R. D. Gupta and N. Misra). 40. Estimation of a distribution function dominating stochastically a known distribution function. Australian Journal of Statistics, 34(1992), (with Prem. S. Puri). 41. Pitman nearness comparisons of estimates of two ordered normal means. Australian Journal of Statistics, 34(1992), (with R. D. Gupta). 42. Preservation of phase type distribution under Poisson shock models. Advances in Applied Probability, 34(1992), (with M. Manoharan and N.Misra). 43. On the probability that the kth customer finds an M/M/1 queue empty. Advances in Applied Probability, 24(1992), (with R. D. Gupta). 44. On the estimation of ordered means of two exponential populations. Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics, 43(1991), (with A. Kaur). 45. Preservation of partial orders under the formation of k-out-of-n G systems of i.i.d components. IEEE Transactions on Reliability, 40(1991), (with G. Vijayasree). 46. Simultaneous estimation of two ordered exponential parameters. Communications in Statistics (Theory and methods), 20(1991), (with G. Vijayasree). 47. On recursive formulas for isotonic regression useful for statistical inference under order restrictions. Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 24(1990), 1-11 (with Prem S. Puri). 48. Some partial orderings describing positive ageing. Stochastic Models, 6(1990), (with J. V. Deshpande, I. Bagai and K. Jain).

8 49. Estimation of a distribution function bounded by two known distribution functions. Communications in Statistics (Theory and Methods), 19(1990), (with A. Kaur). 50. Preservation of some partial orderings under Poisson shock models. Advances in Applied Probability, 21(1989), (with K. Jain). 51. On partial orderings of life distributions. Naval Research Logistics, 36(1989), Relations for reliability measures of weighted distributions. Communications in Statistics (Theory and Methods), 18(1989), (with K. Jain and I. Bagai). 53. On an exponential cosine functional equation. Mathematica Hungarica, 19(1988), (with J. C. Parnami and H. L. Vasudeva). 54. On the operator functional equation S(t + s) + S(t s) = 2S(t)(I 2S 2 ( s 2 )). Glasnik Mathematicki Yugoslavia, 23(1988), (with K. Jain and H. L. Vasudeva). 55. Testing goodness of fit in terms of mean residual life function. Communications in Statistics (Theory and Methods), 16(1987), (with A. Kaur). 56. On two new ageing properties. IAPQR Transactions, 12(1987), Aspects of positive ageing. Journal of Applied Probability, 23(1986), (with J. V. Deshpande and S. C. Kochar). 58. Optimum replacement of a system subject to shocks: A mathematical lemma. Operations Research, 34(1986), (with Prem S. Puri). 59. A test for exponentiality against HNBUE alternatives. Communications in Statistics (Theory and Methods), 15(1986), (with J. V. Deshpande).

9 60. On some new ageing properties. Scandinavian Journal of Statistics, 12(1985), (with J. V. Deshpande). 61. Optimum replacement of a system subject to shocks of intensity increasing linearly with the number of shocks. IAPQR Transactions, 10(1985), Testing for second order stochastic dominance. Communications in Statistics (Theory and methods), 14(1985), (with J. V. Deshpande). 63. A characterization of exponential distribution by Yule distribution. Journal of Indian Statistical Association, 22(1984), (with H. L. Vasudeva). 64. Exponential cosine operator valued functional equation in the strong operator topology. Aequationes Mathematicae, 27(1984), (with H. L. Vasudeva). 65. On some regularity properties of quadratic stochastic processes. Aequationes Mathematicae, 26(1983), On the differential and integral equations associated with the modified exponential cosine operator function. Indian Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics, 11(1980), (with A. B. Buche). 67. On the measurability and continuity property of modified exponential cosine operator. Journal of Indian Mathematical Society, 44(1980), (with R. Chander). 68. The mixed semi group relation. Indian Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics, 9(1978), PAPERS ACCEPTED FOR PUBLICATION 1. A birth process approach to Moranda s geometric software reliability model. IEEE Transactions on Reliability, (with P. J. Boland).

10 2. Statistical themodynamics of internal rotation in a hindering potential of mean force obtained from computer simulations. Journal of Computational Chemistry, (with V. Hnizdo, A. Fedorowicz and E. Demchuk). 3. Reliability properties of reversed residual lifetime. Communications in Statistics, Theory and Methods, (with A. K. Nanda, N. Misra and P. Paul). 4. Nearest neighbor estimates of entropy. Statistics and Decisions, (with N. Misra, V. Hnizdo, A. Fedorowicz and E. Demchuk). CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS PUBLICATIONS 1. Stochastic modeling of rotational degrees of freedom in molecules. Proceedings of the Hawaii International Conference on Statistics, June 5-9, 2002, 1-9 (with E. Demchuk, V. Hnizdo and D. S. Sharp). 2. Theoretical and practical challenges in software reliability and testing. MMR 2002, 1-13 (with P. J. Boland and S. F. Sekirkin). 3. Stochastic ordering of systems with components which are mixtures of exponentials. MMR 2000, Second International Conference on Mathematical Methods in Reliability: Methodology, Practice and Inference. Universite Victor Segelen, Bordeaux France, 4-7 July 2000 Proceedings, Volume 1, pp (with P. J. Boland). 4. Testing nondeterminate systems. Proceedings of the 11th International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE 2000), San Jose, CA, Oct. 8-11, 2000, pp (with T. Menzies, B. Cukic and J. Powell). 5. Estimation after subset selection from uniform populations. Frontiers in Probability and Statistics (Proccedings of 1994/95 Calcutta Conference), 1998, 1-15, Narosa, New Delhi (with R. Anand and N. Misra). 6. How AI can help SE; or: Randomized Search Not Considered Harmful. Proceedings of AI 2001, the Fourteenth Canadian Conference on Artificial

11 Intelligence (with T. Menzies). 7. Many Maybes Mean (Mostly) the Same Thing. 2nd International Workshop on Soft Computing applied to Software Engineering (Netherlands), February 2001 (with T. Menzies). 8. A Bayesian approach to reliability prediction and assessment of component based systems. Proceedings publication, ISSRE, 2001 (with V. Cortellessa, B. Cukic, E. Gunel and V. Bharadwaj). PAPERS SUBMITTED FOR PUBLICATION 1. Stochastic comparisons of Poisson and binomial random variables with their mixtures (with N. Misra and J. Harner). 2. Estimation of the entropy of a multivariate normal distribution (with N. Misra and E. Demchuk). 3. On stochastic precedence ordering (with P. J. Boland and B. Cukic). 4. Simultaneous confidence bands for isotonic functions (with A. R. Sampson and L. Whitaker). AWARDS AND HONOURS 1. Elected member of the International Statistical Institute. Members are elected by virtue of their distinguished contributions to the development or application of statistical methods, or to the administration of statistical services. 2. Member Federal University Grants Commission Panel in Statistics, India, Editor, Journal of the Indian Society of Probability and Statistics,

12 4. Chairman, Department of Statistics, Panjab University, India, Dean Student Welfare, Panjab University, Elected Member Governing Council, Indian Statistical Association, , 1996, Co-ordinator, Special Assistance Programme sanctioned to the Department of Statistics, Panjab University by the University Grants Commission, Awarded Medal by Panjab University for First Position in the University in Masters in Statistics. 9. Awarded Medal by Punjabi University for First Position in the University in B.Sc Honours in Mathematics.