Moinak Bhaduri

Moinak Bhaduri

  • Associate Professor, Mathematical Sciences
  • Ph.D. in Mathematical Sciences in Statistics, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
  • B.Sc Statistics (Honours) in Statistics, St. Xavier's College

Research Interests

Change-point detection and estimation (broadly construed), point (Poisson-type) processes, repairable systems, time series.

Bio

Rooted in applied probability, Moinak Bhaduri studies spatio-temporal Poisson processes and others like the self-exciting Hawkes or log-Gaussian Cox processes that are natural generalizations. His primary interest includes developing change-detection algorithms in systems modeled by these stochastic processes, especially through trend permutations. His research has found applications in computer science, finance, reliability and repairable systems, geoscience, and oceanography. Follow some of Moinak's work using the links below.

Professional Memberships

  • International Institute of Forecasters 2020-07-01 - Present
  • Institute of Mathematical Statistics 2019-01-01 - Present
  • Royal Statistical Society 2013-09-17 - Present
  • American Statistical Association 2012-08-20 - Present

    • Awards and Honors

  • Longlisted (two articles), Information is Beautiful Award (2024), joint with Zahirodini, B. (research assistant), Data Visualization Society
  • Business in Society Faculty Research Grant (March 2025 – May 2025), Provost’s Office, Bentley University
  • BRC Research Grant (June 2025 – September 2025), Research Council, Bentley University
  • Faculty research grant (December 2024 – February 2025), Faculty Affairs Committee, Bentley University
  • AMS-Simons research enhancement grant for PUI faculty (2024 - 2027), American Mathematical Society and the Simons Foundation
  • BRC Research Grant (September 2022-August 2023), joint with Curt Smith (Sociology), Research Council, Bentley University
  • 2023 APEX Writing Award (“Public Health Concerns - Newspaper/Magazine/ Social Media Content" category), Communications Concepts
  • Winner, "Visualise That!" competition, Young Statisticians' section, Royal Statistical Society, London, England
  • Outstanding Scholarly Contribution Award, Teaching and Scholarly Activities Committee, Bentley University
  • Best paper award, the 16th IMT-GT international conference on mathematics, statistics and their applications, Center for Mathematical Sciences, UTAR, Malaysia
  • Best presentation award, the 16th IMT-GT international conference on mathematics, statistics and their applications, Center for Mathematical Sciences, UTAR, Malaysia
  • AMS-Simons research travel grant for early-career mathematicians, American Mathematical Society and Simons Foundation
  • Summer Research Grant, Bentley University
  • Best paper award, 2nd Springer International Conference of the Arabian Journal of Geosciences, Sousse, Tunisia.
  • Summer Research Grant, Bentley University
  • Grad. Medallion, Graduate College, University of Nevada Las Vegas
  • Top Tier Doctoral Graduate Research Assistantship, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
  • Nevada Regents' Graduate Scholar Award, Nevada Board of Regents
  • Graduate Research Assistantship, Summer 2017, UNLV Department of Computer Science
  • Honorable mention, Platform presentation (Science and Health Science, Session B), 19th Annual Graduate and Professional Students' Research Forum, UNLV
  • Wolzinger Family Research Scholarship, Wolzinger Family and College of Sciences, UNLV
  • First place, Platform presentation (Science, Session B), 18th Annual Graduate and Professional Students' Research Forum, UNLV
  • GPSA Merit Award, Graduate and Professional Students' Association, UNLV
  • Graduate Statistician, Royal Statistical Society, UK
  • GPSA funding and research grant, Graduate and Professional Students' Association, UNLV
  • Marcelo Cruz Internship Award, Prescio Consulting
  • UNLV Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching Award (2nd place), University of Nevada, Las Vegas
  • Access Grant, Fall 2013 - Spring 2018, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
  • Elected member of Pi Mu Epsilon, Pi Mu Epsilon n (a national honorary mathematics society), Nevada Beta Chapter.
  • Graduate Teaching Assistantship, Fall 2012 - Spring 2018., UNLV Department of Mathematical Science
  • Visiting Student Research Fellowship, Centre of Applicable Mathematics, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bangalore, India

    • Scholarly Contributions and Creative Productions

    Journal Articles

  • Smith, C., Bhaduri, M. (2025). A recipe for systems change: Predictive modeling and street-level bureaucracy among homeless services. Plos One, (20) 8 e0328822. (Link)
  • Bhaduri, M. (2025). Are individuals who are positive about artificial intelligence also more unsure?. Patterns, (6) 10 101374. (Link)
  • Bhaduri, M. (2025). Change-points in cricket run-scoring with permuted trends: applications through functional alignment and outlier detection in excitement quantification and bolstering advocacy. International Journal of Sports Science and Coaching (Link)
  • Bhaduri, M., Predescu, M. (2025). Discrete-time evolution and stable equilibria of multi-compartment dengue tracker: nonlinear dynamics modulated by controlled stochasticity. The Australian Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications, (22) 1 8. (Link)
  • Bhaduri, M. (2025). The Johnny Depp – Amber Heard defamation trial: lights on a sad spectacle shed through change analysis. Scatterplot, the MAA Journal of Data Science, (2) 1 1-8. (Link)
  • Zahirodini, B., Bhaduri, M. (2025). Marking contemporary America’s attitudinal stance towards modern businesses: a Bayesian attempt to detect deviation patterns based on demographics and politics. Chance, American Statistical Association, (38) 2 52-62. (Link)
  • Bhaduri, M. (2025). Altered tradeoffs between uncertainty and feeling in inherent indecisions: Uniform-binomial mixture densities to gauge the impact of shifts in work operations on employees. Societal Impacts (Link)
  • Zahirodini, B., Bhaduri, M. (2025). Are all bets off when it comes to agreement gambles?. European Mathematical Society Magazine
  • Camp, J., Smith, C., Bhaduri, M., Eddy, S. (2024). Living among immigrants at the U.S.-Mexico border: Community-based learning and the benefits evidenced through network science. Journal of Educational Impact, (1) 2 32-59. (Link)
  • Bhaduri, M. (2024). Do we let businesses get away with dodgy ethics and loose morals? An application of Markov random fields. Chance, American Statistical Association, (37) 3 6-12. (Link)
  • Ho, C., Koo, S., Bhaduri, M., Zhou, L. (2024). A cocktail of Bidirectional tests for power symmetry and repairable systems reliability.. IEEE Transactions on Reliability, (73) 1 384-398. (Link)
  • Bhaduri, M. (2023). Bringing unrelated games closer: excitements unified with changes picked through a careful parallax. Chance, American Statistical Association, (36) 3 12-18. (Link)
  • Bhaduri, M. (2023). Oxygen, crampons, data: Can statistics help us climb Everest?. Significance, Royal Statistical Society, (20) 5 20-25. (Link)
  • Setiawan, H., Bhaduri, M. (2023). Spotting the stock and crypto markets’ rings of fire: measuring change proximities among spillover dependencies within inter and intra-market asset classes. Applied Network Science, (8) 61. (Link)
  • Bhaduri, M. (2022). Contrary currents. Chance, American Statistical Association, (35) 1 26-33. (Link)
  • Bhaduri, M., Dery, J., Haughton, D., Li, T., Liu, P., Nan, W. (2021). Dynamics of reward-based crowdfunding: Kickstarter rock music projects. Chance, American Statistical Association, (34) 1 4-13. (Link)
  • Bhaduri, M. (2020). On modifications to the Poisson‑triggered hidden Markov paradigm through partitioned empirical recurrence rates ratios and its applications to natural hazards monitoring. Scientific Reports, (10) 15889. (Link)
  • Zhan, F., Martinez, A., Rai, N., McConnell, R., Swan, M., Bhaduri, M., Zhan, J., Gewali, L., Oh, P. (2019). Beyond Cumulative Sum Charting in Non-Stationarity Detection and Estimation. IEEE Access, (7) 140860 – 140874. (Link)
  • Bhaduri, M., Ho, C. (2018). On a temporal investigation of hurricane strength and frequency. Environmental Modeling and Assessment, (24) 5 495–507. (Link)
  • Bhaduri, M., Zhan, J. (2018). Using empirical recurrence rates ratio for time series data similarity. IEEE Access, (6) 30855-30864. (Link)
  • Ho, C., Bhaduri, M. (2017). A quantitative insight into the dependence dynamics of the Kilauea and Mauna Loa volcanoes, Hawaii. Mathematical Geosciences, (49) 7 893-911. (Link)
  • Bhaduri, M., Zhan, J., Chiu, C. (2017). A novel weak estimator for dynamic systems. IEEE Access, (5) 27354-27365. (Link)
  • Bhaduri, M., Zhan, J., Chiu, C., Zhan, F. (2017). A novel online and non-parametric approach for drift detection in big data. IEEE Access, (5) 15883-15892. (Link)
  • Bhaduri, M., Ho, C., Zhong, G., Cui, F. (2016). Modeling interaction between bank failure and size. Journal of Finance and Bank Management, (4) 1 15-33. (Link)
  • Ho, C., Bhaduri, M. (2015). On a novel approach to forecast sparse rare events: applications to Parkfield earthquake prediction. Natural Hazards, (78) 1 669-679. (Link)
  • Tan, S., Bhaduri, M., Ho, C. (2014). A statistical model for long-term forecasts of strong dust sand-storms. Journal of Geoscience and Environment Protection, (2) 3 16-26. (Link)

    • Book Chapters

  • Bhaduri, M. (2022). Establishing an inverse dependence between Hawaiian volcanoes through change-point detection Advances in Geophysics, Tectonics and Petroleum Geosciences, Advances in Science, Technology and Innovation. Advances in Geophysics, Tectonics and Petroleum Geosciences, Advances in Science, Technology and Innovation, Springer (Link)
  • Bhaduri, M. (2022). On detecting changes in earthquake occurrence rates through trend reversal Advances in Geophysics, Tectonics and Petroleum Geosciences, Advances in Science, Technology and Innovation. Advances in Geophysics, Tectonics and Petroleum Geosciences, Advances in Science, Technology and Innovation, Springer (Link)
  • Bhaduri, M. (2022). Modeling interactions among the West Atlantic hurricanes through empirical recurrence rates ratio-inspired hidden Markov chains New Prospects in Environmental Geosciences and Hydrogeosciences, Advances in Science, Technology and Innovation. New Prospects in Environmental Geosciences and Hydrogeosciences, Advances in Science, Technology and Innovation, Springer (Link)

    • Digital and Electronic Media, Social Media, Blogs, Podcasts

  • Zahirodini, B., Bhaduri, M. 2024. "How Businesses Function | Stats Stories Episode 346, Miami University, American Statistical Association"

    • Other Scholarly Work

  • Zahirodini, B., Bhaduri, M. (2025). Winds of change and how they sway fatalist fractalists. Nightingale, Journal of the Data Visualization Society (Link).
  • Bhaduri, M. (2025). Directional weirdness: when statistical depth runs out of depth. MathStatBites, Institute for Mathematical and Statistical Innovation (Link).
  • Bhaduri, M. (2025). Connected chaos: How signals housed in network vertices trigger a fresh brand of permutation entropy.. MathStatBites, Institute for Mathematical and Statistical Innovation. (Link).
  • Bhaduri, M. (2024). A promising way to disentangle time from space kicks off!. MathStatBites, Institute for Mathematical and Statistical Innovation (Link).
  • Setiawan, H., Bhaduri, M. (2024). Reaching for suns and black holes in outer space: Analysing global investment systems as emerging galaxies. Nightingale, Journal of the Data Visualization Society (Link).
  • Zahirodini, B., Bhaduri, M. (2024). The stuff we cannot sweep under a torn carpet: Perfectly imperfect tessellations from slices of Maslow’s triangle. Nightingale, Journal of the Data Visualization Society (Link).
  • Zhang, A., Bhaduri, M. (2024). High-altitude cartography: mapping and tracking mountainous concords through interactive weighted networks. Nightingale, Journal of the Data Visualization Society (Link).
  • Zahirodini, B., Bhaduri, M. (2024). Pyramids of priorities and a poisoned omen: Differing hierarchies of desired business ethics. Nightingale, Journal of the Data Visualization Society (Link).
  • Bhaduri, M. (2024). “Changes” in statistics, “changes” in computer science, changes in outlook. MathStatBites, Institute for Mathematical and Statistical Innovation (Link).
  • Bhaduri, M. (2023). Conform – or else! Conformal scores as tools to lay out a set of likely classification labels. MathStatBites, Institute for Mathematical and Statistical Innovation (Link).
  • Bhaduri, M. (2023). On swallowing shrewd marketing baits: a silent salute to demand evolution. MathStatBites, Institute for Mathematical and Statistical Innovation (Link).
  • Bhaduri, M. (2023). Using ‘basket complementarity’ to make product recommendations. Data Science Bites, Royal Statistical Society, Real World Data Science (Link).
  • Bhaduri, M. (2023). Explainable groupings in the face of noisy, high-dimensional madness: wild ambitions tamed through features’ salience. MathStatBites, Institute for Mathematical and Statistical Innovation (Link).
  • Bhaduri, M. (2022). E-values in statistics: apt additions or instruments of generational revolt?. MathStatBites, Institute for Mathematical and Statistical Innovation (Link).

    • Presentations

  • Bhaduri, M. (2025). “Change points in functional time series using combinations of strong harmonics: Applications to measuring social media impacts of sponsoring large sporting tournaments” Presented at the INFORMS INFORMS 2025 Atlanta, Georgia
  • Bhaduri, M. (2025). “On detecting changes in certain random intensity-driven point processes through martingale-based repeated testing” Presented at the 19th International Joint Conference CFE-CMStatistics 19th International Joint Conference CFE-CMStatistics

    • Service

    Service: Department

  • Committee Member for PhD curriculum committee 9/20/22 - Present
  • Committee Member for Tenure-track search committee 9/20/22 - Present
  • Committee Member for Lecturer Search Committee 2/1/21 - Present
  • Committee Chair for Social Committee, Dept. of Math Sciences 8/20/19 - 8/20/22
  • Committee Member for Research Committee 1/20/19 - Present
  • Department of Mathematical Science's representative for UNLV Graduate and Professional Students' Association 8/1/16 - 5/31/17
  • Co-organizer for UNLV Math Sc. Grad Students' Colloquium 8/1/14 - 5/31/15

    • Service: Public

  • Research Mentor for UNLV AEOP RET Summer Program 5/29/18 - 6/30/18

    • Service: Professional

  • Editor (Associate), Journal for Plos Complex Systems - Present
  • Conference/Workshop Session Chair for New England Statistical Society, NextGen committee, 2022 Data Science Day, keynote address 11/6/22 - Present
  • Conference/Workshop Session Chair for New England Statistical Society, NextGen committee, 2022 Data Science Day, Session: Careers in Data Science 11/6/22 - Present
  • Conference/Workshop Session Chair for New England Statistical Society, NextGen committee, 2021 Data Science Day, Poster session 10/6/21 - 10/6/21
  • Conference/Workshop Session Chair for International Institute of Forecasters, 41st International Symposium on Forecasting, Session on "Structural Breaks" 6/28/21 - 6/28/21
  • Conference/Workshop Session Chair for New England Statistical Society, NextGen committee, 2020 Data Science Day, Keynote address 11/7/20 - 11/7/20
  • Editor, Journal for The New England Journal of Statistics in Data Science, NextGen Column 8/1/20 - Present
  • Committee Member for NextGen Committee, New England Statistical Society 8/20/19 - Present
  • Conference/Workshop Session Chair for New England Statistical Society, NextGen committee, 2019 Data Science Day, Poster session 11/16/19 - 11/16/19
  • Conference/Workshop Organizer for New England Statistical Society, NextGen, 2019 Data Science Day 11/16/19 - 11/16/19
  • Invited Lecture/Presentation for UNLV Workshop "Designing Effective Research Assignments" 10/9/15 - 10/9/15

    • Service: Ph.D. Advising

  • Supervisor 2025/01 - Present

    • Service: University

  • Committee Member for Nominations committee 8/20/22 - Present
  • Committee Member for Teaching and scholarly activities committee 8/20/22 - Present
  • Research Mentor for UNLV Rebel Research and Mentorship Program 8/1/16 - 5/31/17
  • Committee Member for UNLV Top Tier Graduate Policies, Procedures and Mentorship Committee 8/1/16 - 5/31/17