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Rakesh Kumar Saroj

Rakesh Kumar Saroj

Rakesh Kumar Saroj
Rakesh Kumar Saroj
Assistant Professor
Centre/School/Special Centre
School of Computational and Integrative Sciences
Room No
34
Off. Phone
011-2670-4726
Residence
+91-9454196475
Email
rakeshsaroj@mail.jnu.ac.in, rakeshsaroj@jnu.ac.in
Personal Webpage
https://jnu.ac.in
Qualifications

M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Biostatistics from the Institute of Medical Sciences-Banaras Hindu University.

Areas of Interest/Specialization
  • Biostatistics, Survival Analysis, Competing Risk and Multivariate Analysis,
  • Machine Learning
  • Epidemiology and Public Health
  • Research Methodology
Experience
  • April 23-Present Working as Assistant Professor in SC&IS- Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
  • April 21 -Apri-23, Worked as Assistant Professor at Sikkim Manipal University, Gangtok –Sikkim.
  • Aug 19–March 21 –Worked as Assistant Professor at SRM University, Gangtok –Sikkim.
  • Aug 18–Aug 19 Worked as Research Fellow at Centre for Infectious Disease Research in Zambia (CIDRZ), Lusaka
Awards & Honours
  • Editorial Board Member of Social Sciences & Humanities Open(@Elsevier)
  • Invited as a Resource Person for the workshop on the Application of Artificial Intelligence in Health Research organized by the Directorate of Research-Sikkim Manipal University,16th - 18th Feb 2023.
  • Invited as a Resource Person for Taking Classes in R Statistical Software for the Seven Days Capacity Building Program on Teaching and Research Organized by the Department of Economics, Christ University, Bangalore,18th July – 25th July 2022.
  • Speaker for 1st International Science Diplomacy Awareness Workshop organized by Scientists for Science Diplomacy Initiative with NRC in Egypt and The Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), 20-22 March 2021.
  • The CODATA-RDA online Research Data Science Summer School from 31st August-11th September- 2020, at The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Trieste, Italy.
  • Invited lecture for ICSSSR sponsored ten days Research Methodology course organized by the Department of Management, Sikkim University from 14-23 September 2020, Gangtok.
  • Guest speaker for an international webinar on “COVID-19 crisis and the sustainable development goals: Rule of the science & Health challenges” collaborating with NRC in Egypt and The Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), 9-13 August 2020.
  • Judging Panelist - Data Science in Healthcare and Data Science in the Public Sector, 2019, 2020 at Data Science Foundation, Greater Manchester, U.K.
  • Travel Grant Award for Workshop on Quantitative Methods for Public Health Researchers of the SAARC Countries, Organized by International Statistical Institute at Kolkata University,16.
International Collaboration/Consultancy

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Best Peer Reviewed Publications
  • Saroj, R. K., Yadav, P. K., Singh, R., & Chilyabanyama, O. (2022). Machine Learning Algorithms for understanding the determinants of under-five Mortality. BioData mining, 15(1), 1-22.
  • Saroj, R.K. et.al. (2022). Performance of Machine Learning Classifiers in Classifying Stunting among Under-Five Children in Zambia. Children, 9(7), 1082.
  • Saroj, R. K., & Anand, M. (2021). Environmental factors prediction in preterm birth using the comparison between logistic regression and decision tree methods: an exploratory analysis. Social Sciences & Humanities Open, 4(1), 100216.
  • Saroj, R. K., Murthy, K. N., Kumar, M., Bhattacharjee, A., & Patel, K. K. (2021). Bayesian competing risk analysis: An application to nasopharyngeal carcinoma patients’ data. Computational and Systems Oncology, 1(1), e1006.
  • Kumar, M., Sonker, P. K., Saroj, A., Jain, A., Bhattacharjee, A., & Saroj, R. K. (2020). Parametric survival analysis using R: Illustration with lung cancer data. Cancer Reports, 3(4), e1210.
  • Anand, M., Singh, L., Saroj, R., & Taneja, A. (2016). Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane and hexachlorocyclohexane exposure through the environment and risk of preterm birth: Indian scenario. Toxicology Letters, (258), S185.
Recent Peer Reviewed Journals/Books
  • Saroj, Rakesh Kumar, and Kanchan Yadav. "Prediction and Classification Machine Learning Models in Diabetic Studies." Socio-Scientific Interaction in Diabetes and Cancer and Its Management (2023): 147. (Book Chapter).
  • Mubiana-Mbewe, M., Bosomprah, S., Saroj, R.K. et al. (2023). Development and validation of a novel scale for antiretroviral therapy readiness among pregnant women in urban Zambia with newly diagnosed HIV infection. AIDS Research and Therapy, 20(1), 1-9.
  • Saroj, R. K., Yadav, P. K., Singh, R., & Chilyabanyama, O. (2022). Machine Learning Algorithms for understanding the determinants of under-five Mortality. BioData mining, 15(1), 1-22.
  • Saroj, R. K., & Anand, M. (2021). Environmental factors prediction in preterm birth using the comparison between logistic regression and decision tree methods: an exploratory analysis. Social Sciences & Humanities Open, 4(1), 100216.
Patents (if any)

NA

A warm welcome to the modified and updated website of the Centre for East Asian Studies. The East Asian region has been at the forefront of several path-breaking changes since 1970s beginning with the redefining the development architecture with its State-led development model besides emerging as a major region in the global politics and a key hub of the sophisticated technologies. The Centre is one of the thirteen Centres of the School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi that provides a holistic understanding of the region.

Initially, established as a Centre for Chinese and Japanese Studies, it subsequently grew to include Korean Studies as well. At present there are eight faculty members in the Centre. Several distinguished faculty who have now retired include the late Prof. Gargi Dutt, Prof. P.A.N. Murthy, Prof. G.P. Deshpande, Dr. Nranarayan Das, Prof. R.R. Krishnan and Prof. K.V. Kesavan. Besides, Dr. Madhu Bhalla served at the Centre in Chinese Studies Programme during 1994-2006. In addition, Ms. Kamlesh Jain and Dr. M. M. Kunju served the Centre as the Documentation Officers in Chinese and Japanese Studies respectively.

The academic curriculum covers both modern and contemporary facets of East Asia as each scholar specializes in an area of his/her interest in the region. The integrated course involves two semesters of classes at the M. Phil programme and a dissertation for the M. Phil and a thesis for Ph. D programme respectively. The central objective is to impart an interdisciplinary knowledge and understanding of history, foreign policy, government and politics, society and culture and political economy of the respective areas. Students can explore new and emerging themes such as East Asian regionalism, the evolving East Asian Community, the rise of China, resurgence of Japan and the prospects for reunification of the Korean peninsula. Additionally, the Centre lays great emphasis on the building of language skills. The background of scholars includes mostly from the social science disciplines; History, Political Science, Economics, Sociology, International Relations and language.

Several students of the centre have been recipients of prestigious research fellowships awarded by Japan Foundation, Mombusho (Ministry of Education, Government of Japan), Saburo Okita Memorial Fellowship, Nippon Foundation, Korea Foundation, Nehru Memorial Fellowship, and Fellowship from the Chinese and Taiwanese Governments. Besides, students from Japan receive fellowship from the Indian Council of Cultural Relations.