Mathematics and Statistics

Mathematics and Statistics

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Professional Preparation

  1. 2005-2007: Research Fellow (under P Donnelly), University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
  2. 2005: Ph.D. in Statistics (under R Durrett), Cornell University, Ithaca, USA
  3. 2003: M.S. in Biometrics (under R Nielsen), Cornell University, Ithaca, USA
  4. 1999: B.S. in Mathematics and Biology, Minnesota State University, Mankato, USA

Appointments, Awards and Honors

  1. 2007--: Lecturer, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Canterbury, NZ
  2. 2010: Visiting Faculty, Theor. Stats and Maths Division, Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore, India
  3. 2010: Visiting Faculty, Chennai Mathematical Institute, Chennai, India
  4. 2005-2007: Research Fellow of the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851, UK
  5. 2005: Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Mathematics, Cornell University, USA
  6. 2001-2003: US NSF Graduate Traineeship in Complex Nonlinear Systems, USA
  7. 2001: Honorary Research Assistant, Galton Laboratory, University College London, UK
  8. 1999: Summa cum laude, Minnesota State University, Mankato, USA
  9. 1990: Junior Scientist of South India, South India Science Fair, Anantpur A.P., India

Publications

    Peer-reviewed Journal Articles

  1. Extending Galton’s Binomial Quincunx to the Trinomial Septcunx, Jennifer Harlow, Bry Ashman and Raazesh Sainudiin, Technology Innovations in Statistics Education, 3(2), 2009
  2. Auto-validating von Neumann rejection sampling from small phylogenetic tree spaces, Raazesh Sainudiin and Thomas York, Algorithms for Molecular Biology 4:1, 2009
  3. Simple models of genomic variation in human SNP density, Raazesh Sainudiin, Andrew Clark, and Rick Durrett, BMC Genomics 8:146, 2007
  4. Relative contribution of seed-transmitted inoculum to foliar populations of Phaeosphaeria nodorum, Rebecca S. Bennett, Michael G. Milgroom, Raazesh Sainudiin, Barry M. Cunfer, and Gary C. Bergstrom, Phytopathology 97(5):584-591, 2007
  5. Identification of physicochemical selective pressure on protein encoding nucleotide sequences, Wendy S. W. Wong, Raazesh Sainudiin and Rasmus Nielsen, BMC Bioinformatics 7:148, 2006
  6. Detecting site-specific physicochemical selective pressures: applications to the class-I HLA of the human major histocompatibility complex and the SRK of the plant sporophytic self-incompatibility system, Raazesh Sainudiin, Wendy Shuk Wan Wong, Krithika Yogeeswaran, June Nasrallah, Ziheng Yang and Rasmus Nielsen, Journal of Molecular Evolution 60: 315-326, 2005
  7. Microsatellite mutation models: insights from a comparison of humans and chimpanzees, Raazesh Sainudiin, Richard T. Durrett, Charles Aquadro and Rasmus Nielsen, Genetics 168: 383-395, 2004

    Book Chapters

  8. Applications of interval methods to phylogenetics, Raazesh Sainudiin and Ruriko Yoshida, In L. Pachter and B. Sturmfels (Eds.), Algebraic Statistics for Computational Biology, Cambridge University Press, 2005
  9. Models of microsatellite evolution, Peter Calabrese and Raazesh Sainudiin, In R. Nielsen (Ed.), Statistical Methods in Molecular Evolution, Series: Statistics for Biology and Health, Springer, 2004

    Books

  10. Machine Interval Experiments: Accounting for the Physical Limits on Empirical and Numerical Resolutions, Raazesh Sainudiin, LAP Academic Publishers, Köln, Germany, 2009

Service

Reviewed for Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, Genetics, Journal of Molecular Evolution, PLOS Genetics, Molecular Biology and Evolution.

Local coordinator of a Numb3rs Learning Community.

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