Raazesh Sainudiin

Raazesh Sainudiin

I work at the interface of computing, mathematics and statistics to solve real-world problems through custom-built mathematical and statistical models.

Professional Preparation

  1. 2022: Docent in Applied Mathematics and Statistics, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
  2. 2005-2007: Research Fellow (under P Donnelly and RC Griffiths), University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
  3. 2005: Ph.D. in Statistics (under R Durrett), Cornell University, Ithaca, USA
  4. 2003: M.S. in Biometrics (under R Nielsen), Cornell University, Ithaca, USA
  5. 1999: B.S. in Mathematics and Biology, Minnesota State University, Mankato, USA

Appointments and Awards

  1. 2019 Jan - : Associate Professor (Universitetslektor) of Mathematics with specialization in Data Science, Department of Mathematics, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
  2. 2020 Feb - : Senior Researcher, Data Scientist, Combient Mix AB, Stockholm, Sweden
  3. 2019 Jan - 2020 Feb: Principal Data Scientist, Combient AB, Stockholm, Sweden and Founding Coordinator of C3δεΣ, Combient Competence Centre for Data Engineering Sciences, Department of Mathematics, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.
  4. 2019-2020: Principal investigator on research project titled Mobile Phone Data for Society and Privacy for the Individual: From the Conflict to a Synergy in Transport Flows Analysis, Research Center for Cyber Security at Tel Aviv University established by the State of Israel, the Prime Minister's Office and Tel-Aviv University
  5. 2017 Jan - 2018 Dec: Researcher in Applied Mathematics and Statistics, Department of Mathematics, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
  6. 2017 Apr - 2018 Dec: Data Science Consultant, Combient AB, Stockholm, Sweden
  7. 2016 - 2017: Chief Analytics Officer and Co-founder, WebIntrinsics.io, Christchurch, New Zealand
  8. 2016 Nov - Dec: Invited Professor, Research Chair in Mathematical Models of Biodiversity held by Veolia Environnement, French National Museum of Natural History, Paris and Centre for Mathematics and its Applications, Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France
  9. 2012 - 2016: Senior Lecturer, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Canterbury, NZ
  10. 2016 Jul - Aug: CORCON Gästforskare, Matematiska institutionen, Stockholms Universitet, Stockholm, Sweden
  11. 2015 Sep: CORCON Gästforskare, Matematiska institutionen, Stockholms Universitet, Stockholm, Sweden
  12. 2015 Jul - Dec: Principal Data Scientist with Wynyard Group's Research and Development Team (on academic leave)
  13. 2015 Jan - Jun: Intelligent Systems Specialist with Wynyard Group's Research and Development Team (on academic leave)
  14. 2014 - 2017: One of four core constituents of a full partner institution on the project CORCON: Correctness by Construction, Seventh Framework Programme of the European Union, Marie Curie Actions-People, International Research Staff Exchange Scheme
  15. 2014: Visiting Scholar, Department of Mathematics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
  16. 2013: Erskine Fellow, Department of Statistics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
  17. 2013: Invited Professor, Research Chair in Mathematical Models of Biodiversity held by Veolia Environnement, French National Museum of Natural History, Paris and Centre for Mathematics and its Applications, Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France
  18. 2007 - 2012: Lecturer, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Canterbury, NZ
  19. 2012: Visiting Scientist, Theor. Stats and Maths Division, Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore, India
  20. 2010: Visiting Scientist, Theor. Stats and Maths Division, Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore, India
  21. 2010: Visiting Faculty, Chennai Mathematical Institute, Chennai, India
  22. 2005 - 2007: Research Fellow of the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851, UK
  23. 2005: Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Mathematics, Cornell University, USA
  24. 2001 - 2003: US NSF Graduate Traineeship in Complex Nonlinear Systems, USA
  25. 2001: Honorary Research Assistant, Galton Laboratory, University College London, UK
  26. 1999: Summa cum laude, Minnesota State University, Mankato, USA
  27. 1991 - 1994: Count Folke Bernadotte Memorial Scholar, Gustavus Adolphus College, St.Peter, MN, USA
  28. 1990: Junior Scientist of South India, South India Science Fair, Anantpur A.P., India

Selected Publications by Field

  1. Computer Arithmetic and Computer-Aided Proofs in Statistics and Simulation
  2. Computational Nonparametric Statistics
  3. Privacy in Models of Human Mobility
    • Swapping trajectories with a sufficient sanitizer, Julián Salas, David Megías, Vicenç Torra, MarinaToger, Joel Dahne and Raazesh Sainudiin, Pattern Recognition Letters, Vol. 131, 474-480, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patrec.2020.02.011.
  4. Scalable Data Science and Distributed Machine Learning
  5. Mathematical and Statistical Education
  6. Mathematical and Statistical Epidemiology
    • The Transmission Process: A Combinatorial Stochastic Process for the Evolution of Transmission Trees over Networks, Raazesh Sainudiin and David Welch, Journal of Theoretical Biology, Volume 410, Pages 137–170, 10.1016/j.jtbi.2016.07.038, 2016. See research project: Meme Evolution Programme
  7. Mathematical and Statistical Physics
    • A nonlinear dynamical system approach for the yielding behaviour of a viscoplastic fluid, Teodor Burghelea, Miguel Moyers-Gonzalez and Raazesh Sainudiin, Soft Matter, 13, 2024-2039, 10.1039/C6SM02361D, 2017
    • A microscopic Gibbs field model for the macroscopic yielding behavior of a viscoplastic fluid, Raazesh Sainudiin, Miguel Moyers-Gonzalez and Teodor Burghelea, Soft Matter,11, 5531-5545, 10.1039/C5SM00857C, 2015
    • A Microscopic Gibbs Field Model for the Macroscopic Behavior of a Viscoplastic Fluid, Raazesh Sainudiin, Miguel Moyers-Gonzalez and Teodor Burghelea, Research Report UCDMS2014/1, 17 pages, 2014 (PDF 5.6MB)
  8. Mathematical and Statistical Population Genetics
    • Full Likelihood Inference from the Site Frequency Spectrum based on the Optimal Tree Resolution, Raazesh Sainudiin and Amandine Véber, Theoretical Population Biology, 2018, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tpb.2018.07.002 (PDF 676KB)
    • Ancestries of a Recombining Diploid Population, Raazesh Sainudiin, Bhalchandra Thatte, and Amandine Véber, Journal of Mathematical Biology, 46 pages, 2015 (preprint PDF 436KB). The final publication is available at Springer via 10.1007/s00285-015-0886-z
    • Finding the best resolution for the Kingman-Tajima coalescent: theory and applications, Raazesh Sainudiin, Tanja Stadler and Amandine Véber, Journal of Mathematical Biology, Volume 70, Issue 6, pp 1207-1247, 2015 (preprint PDF 384KB). The final publication is available at Springer via 10.1007/s00285-014-0796-5
    • Experiments with the Site Frequency Spectrum, Raazesh Sainudiin, Kevin Thornton, Jennifer Harlow, James Booth, Michael Stillman, Ruriko Yoshida, Robert Griffiths, Gilean McVean and Peter Donnelly, Bulletin of Mathematical Biology (Special Inaugural Issue in Algebraic Biology), Volume 73, Number 4, 829-872. DOI: 10.1007/s11538-010-9605-5, 2011 (AMS review)
  9. Mathematical and Statistical Programming
    • MRS 2.0: A C++ Class Library for Statistical Set Processing and Computer-Aided Proofs in Statistics (Version 2.0) [Software], Jennifer Harlow, Raazesh Sainudiin, Gloria Teng, Warwick Tucker and Thomas York, Available from https://github.com/lamastex/mrs2, 2017
  10. Mathematical Art and History of Indian Combinatorics
    • Pingala’s Fountain, R. Sainudiin, R. Sridharan, M. D. Srinivas, K. Yogeeswaran, Ganita Bharati: Bulletin of the Indian Society for History of Mathematics, Vol. 35, No. 1-2, pp. 117-123, 2013 (PDF 16MB)
  11. Applications in Biology (Population Genetics and Molecular Evolution)
  12. Applications in Civil Engineering (Air-traffic Computing)
  13. Applications in Mechanical Engineering (Gas-turbine identification and control)
  14. Applications in Natural Language Processing (Word sense disambiguation)
  15. Applications in Studies of Terrorist/Extremist/Hate Groups

Details

See current list of over 50 publications or unmaintained Google Scholar.

See current list of nearly 90 research talks.

Service

Industrial Contracts

  1. "Consulting on technical and non-technical aspects of various Data Science Processes" for Combient AB, Stockholm, Sweden, 2017 (confidential)
  2. "Nonparametric Self-Exciting Space-Time Point Process Model for Crime Risk Prediction", Raazesh Sainudiin, Statistical Consulting for Wynyard Group, Christchurch, NZ, UC Contract Number 14-02-007, 2014 (confidential)
  3. "Intelligent Bidding Systems (Collaborative Filtering)", Raazesh Sainudiin (with Kourosh Neshantian), Ministry of Business Innovation and Employment (two year-long Capability Fellowships), Consulting for adScale Laboratories, Christchurch, NZ, UC Contract Numbers E6075 and E6076, 2013-2014
  4. "Imputation Variance Estimation for Statistics New Zealand's Accommodation Occupancy Survey", Raazesh Sainudiin and Richard Penny, Statistical Consulting Report Prepared for The New Zealand Ministry of Tourism, Resource Centre 36, Sub-Project 5050300, p. 1-25, 2009 (PDF 936KB)

More detailed CV up to 2017 as PDF (160KB)