Contact Information
Champaign, IL, 61820
Research Areas
Research Interests
Reinforcement Learning, Time Series, Probability Theory
Education
Ph.D. Candidate, Statistics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2024-Present)
M.Sc, Statistics, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada (2022-2024)
B.Math (Hons.), Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore, India (2019-2022)
Courses Taught
Teaching Assistant
- STAT 410 - Statistics and Probability II, Fall 24
- STAT 400 - Statistics and Probability I, Spring 25, Fall 25
- STAT 448 - Advanced Data Analysis, Summer 25
- STAT 510 - Mathematical Statistics, Spring 26
- STAT 546 - Machine Learning in Data Science, Fall 26
External Links
Recent Publications
Biswas, A., Li, Y., and Zhu, R., "Offline Policy Evaluation via Mixed Bellman Residuals and Adaptive Critic Representations," arXiv preprint arXiv:2609.33186 (2026), https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.33186 [Submitted]
Biswas, Amitakshar. “Continuous Kernel Point Processes with Spectral Transform.” Statistics & Probability Letters 239 (2026): 110900. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.spl.2026.110900
Biswas, A. and Kashlak, A. B., "Random Invariance Testing on Quadratic Form Statistics with Application to Autocorrelation," arXiv preprint arXiv:2608.25918 (2026), https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.25918 [Submitted]
Biswas, A., Kundu, S. On Algebraically Positive Matrices With Associated Sign Patterns.Reson 27, 1211–1235 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12045-022-1415-1