Co-Leader, Research Core 1
University Distinguished Professor
Professor of Statistics, TAMU
Director, Center for Statistical Bioinformatics
Director, Bayesian Bioinformatics Laboratory
Statistics
Phone: 979-845-1275
Email: bmallick@stat.tamu.edu
Webpage: http://www.stat.tamu.edu/~bmallick
Bani K. Mallick serves the institute as Co-Leader of Core 1 (Forward Multiscale Modeling and Simulation). Mallick earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in statistics at Calcutta University in 1986 and 1990 (respectively). Following his work there, he earned his doctorate degree in statistics from the University of Connecticut in 1994.
After working for four years as a Permanent Lecture in the Department of Mathematics at Imperial College in London, Mallick joined the faculty of the Department of Statistics at Texas A&M in 1998 as assistant professor. Since 2003 he has been full Professor in the department. In 2006 he was appointed director of the Bayesian Bioinformatics Laboratory at Texas A&M. The same year he became adjunct professor of Biostatistics at the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center. Mallick has received a number of awards and honors over the course of his career. In 1996 he was named a fellow of the Royal Statistical Society; in 2000 he was elected as a member of International Statistical Institute (ISI). 2005 saw his nomination as a fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA). In 2006 he was awarded Texas A&M’s University Distinguished Achievement Award in Research, and in 2007 he received the Outstanding Research Award from the International Indian Statistical Association. In 2008, Mallick was elected as a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS). Mallick is currently principal investigator of two National Science Foundation-funded grants and one funded by the National Institutes of Health. He is co-principal investigator in several other grants. Mallick is also on the editorial board of Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics and Biostatistics.