Dr. Mandal develops robust statistical methods that focus on eliminating the effect of outliers in noisy data. His background involves robust inference, big data analysis, non-parametric statistics and biostatistics.

• UTEP Edge Curriculum Fellow from Provost’s Faculty Fellow Program (01/01/2023-12/31/2023)

• Ph D in Statistics, Indian Statistical Institute (2010)
• MS in Statistics, Indian Statistical Institute (2005)

• Locally Sparse and Robust Partial Least Squares in Scalar-on-Function Regression. Statistics and Computing 34 5 (2024), Sude Gurer, Han Lin Shang, Abhijit Mandal, Ufuk Beyaztas.
• Microglia Mediate Metabolic Dysfunction from Common Air Pollutants through NF-κB Signaling. Diabetes (2024), Lucas Debarba, Hashan Jayarathne, Lukas Stilgenbauer, Ana Terra dos Santos, Lisa Koshko, Sydney Scofield, Ryan Sullivan, Abhijit Mandal, Ulrike Klueh, Marianna Sadagurski.
• Robust Function-on-function Interaction Regression. Statistical Modelling (in press), Ufuk Beyaztas, Han Lin Shang, Abhijit Mandal.
• Robust functional logistic regression. Advances in Data Analysis and Classification (in press), Berkay Akturk, Ufuk Beyaztas, Han Lin Shang, Abhijit Mandal.
• Robust Density Power Divergence Estimates for Panel Data Models. Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics 75 (2023), Abhijit Mandal, Beste Beyaztas, S. Bandyopadhyay.

• A generalized likelihood ratio test and its applications in genetics and non-linear regression (2023), Volume University of South Florida, Abhijit Mandal.
• Statistical Analysis of a Nonparametric Test for Genome-Wide Association Studies (2023), Volume University of Texas Health at San Antonio, Abhijit Mandal.
• Robust Estimation for the Function-On-Function Regression Model (2022), Volume Joint Statistical Meeting, Washington, D.C., Abhijit Mandal.
• Stratified random sampling for dependent inputs in Monte Carlo simulations from computer experiments (2022), Volume AMS Fall Central Sectional Meeting, Abhijit Mandal.
• Robust Density Power Divergence Estimates for Panel Data Models (2022), Volume Oklahoma State University, Abhijit Mandal.

• NIH R01: Benzene exposure promotes neuro-inflammation and metabolic dysregulation (Role: Co-I)
• Internal: Robust Variable Selection for High-dimensional Data (Role: PI)
• NIH R01: Interplay between hypoxia and oxidative phosphorylation in herpes stromal keratitis (Role: Statistician)