Amitakshar Biswas

Amitakshar Biswas

Contact Information

616 East Green Street, Suite 212
Champaign, IL, 61820

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

Recent Publications

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., Kundu, S. On Algebraically Positive Matrices With Associated Sign Patterns.Reson 27, 1211–1235 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12045-022-1415-1