Dr. P. G. Sankaran is the thirteenth Pro-Vice Chancellor of Cochin University of Science and Technology (CUSAT). He took charge of the position on 3rd May 2018. Dr. Sankaran has more than 22 years of experience in teaching and research. He had served as Head, Department of Statistics, CUSAT and as Director, Centre for Population Studies. Dr. Sankaran got masters and doctoral degrees in Statistics from CUSAT. He received BOYSCAST fellowship of Department of Science and Technology, Government of India in 2000 and got Young Researcher Award of International Indian Statistical Association in 2010. He is the recipient of Distinguished Statistician Award of Indian Society for Probability and Statistics, 2020. Dr. Sankaran has published more than 175 research papers of which 135 are in international journals. He has already guided 13 research students for their doctoral degrees. His areas of interest include Survival Analysis, Distributuion Theory, Reliability Theory, Quantile Functions and S

Distribution Theory, Information Measures, Reliability Theory, Statistical Inference, Survival Analysis

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Reliability aspects of quantile- based residual coefficient of variation, International Journal of Reliability, Quality and Safety Engineering, 2022

On Proportional Odds Relevation Transform and its Applications, Communications in Statistics- Theory and Methods,, 2022

Modeling and Analysis of Competing Risks Cure Rate Regression Model with Weibull Distribution, Statistics and Applications, 2022

Non-parametric Test of Recurrent Cumulative Incidence Functions for Competing Risks Models, Metron, 2022

Some Results of Auto-Relevation Transform in Reliability Analysis, Statistics and Application, 2022

Regression analysis of cure model with generalized Weibull distribution, Statistica, Vol. 81, 2021

Nonparametric estimation of quantile based entropy function, Communications in Statistics- Simulation and Computation, 2021

Cause Specific Shared Frailty Proportional Reversed Hazards Models, Statistics and Applications, Vol. 12, 2021

The delayed effect of temperature on the risk of hospitalization due to COVID-19: Evidence from Mumbai, India, Epidemiologic Methods, Vol. 9, 2021

Statistical Methods foe estimating cure fraction of Covid-19 patients in India, MASA, Vol. 16, 2021

Prof. P G SANKARAN, N.Unnikrishnan Nair and N.Balakrishna, Reliability Modeling and Analysis in Discrete Time, Academic Press, 2018 , ISBN : 978-0-12-801913-9

Prof. P G SANKARAN, N Unnikrishnan Nair and N. Balakrishna, Quantile based Reliability Analysis, Springer, Birkhauser, New York, 2013

Prof. P G SANKARAN, Sunoj, S. M, The Collected Papers of Prof.N.Unnikrishnan Nair, Department of Statistics, CUSAT, 2007

Prof. P G SANKARAN, N. Unnikrishnan Nair , StatisticalMethodsfor Quality and Reliability, Education Publishers and Distributors, Ernakulam, 1998

Young Researcher Award from International Indian Statistical Association, in the year 2010

BOYSCAST Fellow from DST, Govt. of India, in the year 2000

Senior Research Fellowship from CSIR, in the year 1991

RESEARCH PROJECTS

"MATRICS scheme of Department of Science and Technology" (Government of India- 2018 -2021 , Total outlay Rs.660000)

"Modeling and analysis of lifetime data using quantile functions" (KSCSTE, Govt. of Kerala- 2017 -2020 )

"USERS Scheme-Book Writing ( Co-investigator) “ Quantile based Reliability Analysis" (DST, Govt. of India- 2011 -2013 )