POOJA SONI,

(ASSISTANT PROFESSOR)
OPERATION RESEARCH, STATISTICS,
UNIVERSITY BUSINESS SCHOOL,
PANJAB UNIVERSITY, SECTOR 14, CHANDIGARH
Female, India
Date of Birth: 6th March 1985
House No. 347/1 Phase 11, S.A.S. Nagar Mohali 160062
Phone: 91-9888010920
Email: pooja06@pu.ac.in

Academic Profile
Course / Degree University / Institution Year Percentage
Ph.D. in Statistics Panjab University, Chandigarh 2015
Master of Science - Panjab University, Chandigarh 2010 88.8125%
Statistics
Master of Science - Panjab University, Chandigarh 2007 60.7 %
Mathematics
Bachelor of Science - G. G. D. S. D. College, Chandigarh 2004 77.55 %
Mathematics and Panjab University, Chandigarh
AISSCE (12th Std.) CBSE 2001 83.8 %
AISSE (10th Std.) CBSE 1999 78.6 %

PUBLICATION
1. Pooja Soni, Isha Dewan and Kanchan Jain :Nonparametric estimation of quantile
density function, Computational Statistics and Data Analysis (56) 2012, 3876-
3886.
2. Pooja Soni, Isha Dewan and Kanchan Jain: Tests for successive differences of
quantiles, Statistics and Probability letters (96), 2015 1-8.
3. Pooja Soni, Isha Dewan and Kanchan Jain: Nonparametric tests for ordered
quantiles, Statistical Papers, 2016 1-19.

Work Experience
Working as an Assistant Professor in University Business School, Panjab
University, Chandigarh from 2014 onwards.
Awards / Recognitions / Achievements
UGC NET/JRF qualified
1. Cleared UGC-NET (CSIR) 2008 in Mathematics
2. Cleared UGC-NET (CSIR) 2010 in Statistics

Gold medalist in Master of Statistics from Department of Statistics, Panjab Unicersity

Stood first for all three years at G. G. D. S. D. College, Chandigarh during Bachelor of
Science
Stood first in School in the AISSCE-2001 and in AISSE-1999

COURSEWORK AT ISI, DELHI

Attended 6 months course work at Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi from July 25
December 31, 2010
The courses studied are as follows:
Reliability and Survival Analysis (Teacher : Prof. Isha Dewan)
Statistical Computing (Teacher : Dr. Deepayan Sarkar)
Audit course of Measure Theory (Teacher : Dr. Antar Bandyopadhyay )
Problem Solving of the book Statistical Inference by Casella and Berger.

COMPUTER LITERACY
MS Office , R Software, SPSS

PARTICIPATION IN WORKSHOPS AND CONFERENCES

Attended, 2017 Symposium on Mathematical Programming and Game Theory at
Indian Statistical Institute, New Delhi

Attended 109 Orientation course organised by HRD centre Panjab University from
February 16 to March 14, 2016.
Participated in Conference National Conference On Advances in Theoretical and Applied
Statistics at Deptt of Statistics, Panjab University, Chandigarh from February 12-13
2015
Attended Workshop on Reliability Theory & Survival Analysis at Deptt of
Statistics, Panjab University, Chandigarh from November 4-6 2014
Attended CHASCON 13 held at Panjab University, Chandigarh from March 1-3,
2013.
 Participated in XIXth International Conference of Forum for Interdisciplinary
Mathematics, SCRA held at Deptt of Statistics, Panjab University, Chandigarh from
Dec. 15-17, 2012.
Attended National Conference on Advances and Application in Statistics held at
Department of Statistics, Panjab University, Chandigarh-160014 (India) from
February 20-21, 2012.
Attended Workshop on Reliability Theory & Survival Analysis at Indian Institute
of Technology, Kanpur, held on December 3-5, 2012.
Attended Workshop on Reliability Theory & Survival Analysis at Indian Statistical
Institute, Kolkata, held on November 23-25, 2011.
Attended CHASCON 11 held at Panjab University from Feb 26-28, 2011.
Attended Workshop on Reliability Theory & Survival Analysis at Indian Institute
of Technology, Bombay held from November 25-27, 2010.
Participated in one week training on Official Statistics and Related Methodology
conducted by the National Academy of Statistical Administration, Greater Noida
during May 24-28,2010.

Hobbies
Solving Puzzles, playing Sudoku
Areas of Interest
Pure Mathematics, Modern Algebra, Applied Statistics, Operation research, Data
Analytics, R programming.