Umashanger Thayasivam.

Professor Statistics & Data Science Department of Mathematics Rowan University 201 Mullica Hill Road, Glassboro, NJ 08028, USA e-mail:thayasivam@rowan.edu Tel: (856)256-4500 x3572 Fax: (856)256-4816 Ph.D. in Statistics, University of Georgia, 2009. M.S. in Statistics, University of Georgia, 2005. B.S.c(Honors) in Statistics, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka, 2001.

Research Interests.

Statistical Data Mining

• Supervised learning Approaches for Biomarker Discovery

Robust Model Selection and Estimation

• Spoof detection & Speaker identification

Mixture distribution Parameter/Component Estimation with L2E

• Significance of Renyi Divergence