Oh, I'm sorry!! I forgot to introduce myself!! I'm Abhijit (that's "O-vi-jit"). Hi! Nice to meet you. I'm originally from the Twin Cities. My family is from Calcutta, India. I spent about 11 years there. I completed my undergraduate education at the Indian Statistical Institute, one of the world's premier institutions for statistical research.

I'm came to Seattle in 1993, got a Master's in Statistics from the University of Washington, and am currently pursuing a Ph.D. in the Biostatistics program here. My current research involves estimation in overparametrized and non-identifiable models. I am currently a research assistant at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, working in the Biostatistics department under Dr. Steve Self. I graduated in Winter, 2001 and then moved to Washington, DC (the other Washington) in September to follow a postdoc at the National Cancer Institute. I've been here since then, working with some of the best epidemiologists in the world in cervical, ovarian and liver cancer. My interests have turned to genetics and microarray technology, and the challenges of the current and impending data explosion.

The big news in my life is that I got married!!! My wife, Rashmi, is the most amazing person I know. We got married on January 22 or 28 of 2001, depending on which ceremony you count (Don't ask). Rashmi now has her own web page. We've finally started constructing a page for our wedding photos (still incomplete, unfortunately). Rashmi is finishing up her Master's in Biochemistry at the University of Maryland, where she works with proteins and allostery.

Outside of school and research, we both spend a lot of time with an ever-enlarging circle of friends. Rashmi has old friends from IIT Kanpur and I have old friends from ISI, and we've springboarded from them to a very active social life, complete with surprise birthday parties and lots of fun. For me, this is the first time in a long while with lots of Indian friends and almost no American friends. In Seattle the situation was the reverse. I still spend some time learning and teaching aikido, over in Ellicott City with my good friend Brian Kantsiper Sensei. Hopefully I'll get my 3rd degree black belt sometime soon. Rashmi is still a songbird (so the nails in the coffin of my shower singing career have been hammered), and hopefully will find some time for informal performances in the community soon.