Nirdesh Bakshi

Nirdesh Bakshi is a PhD candidate in Biostatistics at the University of Galway and an affiliate PhD scholar of the HRB-TMRN. He holds an MSc in Statistics from University College Dublin (UCD) and a Postgraduate Diploma in Applied Statistics from Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU), India, and is a former student member of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries (IFoA), UK, and the Institute of Actuaries of India (IAI). Professionally, Nirdesh has worked as a Statistical Consultant, Analytics Consultant, Data Scientist and Data Analyst.

While at UCD, Nirdesh undertook a research project with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on improving statistical inference at the upper tails of radon measurement data from Irish homes. Because of its geology, Ireland is vulnerable to abnormally high radon concentrations, and the lognormal model traditionally used for radon measurements is inappropriate in the Irish context; the project developed mixed models based on a comparative pdf approach to improve inference at the upper tails.

His PhD, “Improving Inference in Clinical Trials with Missing Data with a focus on Clustered Randomised Trials”, is supervised by Dr Neil O’Leary (University of Galway). His research interests lie in applied statistics, particularly developing imputation methods that can be tailored to different trial designs.