Asha Gopalakrishnan joined the Department of Statistics, Cochin University of Science and Technology in 2001. Her research interest include Distribution Theory, Modelling and Analysis of time to event data. She is the recipient of the National Board of Higher Mathematics Research award, Department of Atomic Energy, Govt of India for the year 1992 and is an Elected Member of International Statistical Institute, Netherlands. She has adorned several administrative positions. like Head of Department, Chairman and member of various Board of Studies, members in various committees. She has thirty one research publications in national and international peer reviewed journals, completed four research projects funded by DST, UGC, NPOL, Govt of India. She serves as a subject expert in Advisory board for National level Examination Commissions, State Public Service Commissions. She serves as a reviewer for many National and International journal and is an associate editor of two national journals.

Distribution Theory, Reliability Modelling, Survival Analysis

On a Class of Transmuted Distributions to Model Survival Data with a Cure Fraction., Calcutta Statistical Association Bulletin, Sage PUBLISHERS Vol. 73, 2021

Age replacement Models in Discrete time , Communications in Statistics, Theory and Methods (accepted), 2019

Quantile based tests for exponentiality against DMRQ and NBUE alternative, Journal of Korean Statistical Society, Vol. 47, 2018

Bivariate distributions with transmuted conditionals: Models and Applications, Communications in Statistics, Theory and Methods , 2018

Reliability Modelling incorporating Loadshare and fraility, Applied Stochastic Models in Business and Industry, 2017

An extension of the Freund's bivariate distribution to model load sharing systems, American Journal of Mathematical and Management Sciences, 2016

An extension of the Freund's bivariate distribution to model cascading failures, Communications in Statistics-Simulation and Computation, 2016

Characterizations using past entropy measures, Metron, 2014

Transmuted exponentiated Frechet distribution , Journal of Statistics Application & Probability, Vol. 3, 2014

On inferring inequality measures using L-moments, Economic Quality Control, 2014

National Board of Higher Mathematics Research Award from National Board of Higher Mathematics, Department of Atomic Energy, in the year 1991

Elected Member ISI from International Statistical Institute, Netherlands , in the year 2008

RESEARCH PROJECTS

"UGC Minor Research Project on Multivariate Geometric Extensions," (UGC, Government og India- 2001 -2002 , Total outlay Rs.25000)

"Modelling and Analysis of Preventive Maintenance by Reliability Characteristics" (Department of Science and Technology, Government of India- 2006 -2006 , Total outlay Rs.931085)

"Reliability Studies on Sonar Transducer Encapsulant Materials" (NPOL, Government of India- 2012 -2013 , Total outlay Rs.984500)