Postdoctoral Research Fellow at HEC Montréal and McGill University prior to joining IIT Mandi, working with Prof. Aurélie Labbe, Dr. Leo Belzile, Prof. Alexandra M. Schmidt, and Dr. Pratheepa Jeganathan.
Education
PhD: 2022, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Supervisor: Prof. Raphaël Huser, Thesis: 'Bayesian Modeling of Sub-Asymptotic Spatial Extremes'; MSc: 2016, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur (IITK), Mathematical Statistics; BMath: 2014, University of Allahabad, Mathematics and Statistics.
Background
Research Interests: Extreme Value Theory, Spatio-Temporal Modeling, Bayesian Computing, Data Science, and Environmetrics. Brief Introduction: Assistant Professor at IIT Mandi, India, since December 2024.
Miscellany
Office: F5, School Of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences (SMSS), North Campus, IIT Mandi -175005, Himachal Pradesh, India; Email: rishikesh@iitmandi.ac.in; kesdev101@gmail.com