Pranesh Kumar

Kumar, Dr. Pranesh

PhD

Professor
Mathematics and Statistics
Phone
250-960-6671
Email
pranesh.kumar@unbc.ca
Office
10-2036
Campus
Prince George

Biography

Prior to at UNBC, Dr. Pranesh Kumar has worked in the Memorial University of Newfoundland, University of Transkei (South Africa), Bilkent University (Turkey), University of Dar-es-Salaam (Tanzania), University of Rome, Indian Agricultural Statistics Research Institute and FAO(UN) in Rome and Philippines. Besides supervising graduate students and teaching Statistics courses, Dr. Kumar provided statistical consulting as well on the statistical design and analysis of research projects and sample survey studies. He has earned his MSc and PhD degrees from the Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi. His main professional interests are: Teaching/Research in Applied Statistics and Methodology. Dr. Kumar holds memberships on many international professional societies including the International Statistical Institute. He is member on the editorial boards of many international journals and serves as the referee. He also serves as external PhD thesis examiner. He acts as the reviewer of several international universities promotion and tenure committees.

Kumar, Dr. Pranesh's curriculum vitae

Research and expertise

Fuzzy math (Analysis of imprecise and indeterminate data), Sample surveys (planning, conduct, methodology), Experimental designs (Basic designs, Factorial experiments, Incomplete block designs, Response surface designs), Statistical data analysis ( Agricultural, Natural resources, Experimental, Survey), Biomedical studies (Survival, Clinical, Health), Climate change effects (Sea level rise, Glacier and Ice melt, Wild fires), Copulas (Bivariate, Tail distribution).

Research fields
  • Biomedical
  • Climate Change
  • Mathematics
  • Statistics
Areas of expertise
Fuzzy math, sample surveys, experimental designs, statistical data analysis, biomedical studies, climate change, copula functions
Languages spoken
  • English
  • Hindi
Currently accepting graduate students
Supervises in
Mathematics and Statistics
Dr. Pranesh Kumar's main professional interests are: Teaching, supervision and research in Applied Statistics and Methodology. Prior to joining UNBC in September 1999, he has worked in Memorial University of Newfoundland, University of Transkei (South Africa), Bilkent University (Turkey), University of Dar-es-Salaam (Tanzania), University of Rome, Indian Agricultural Statistics Research Institute and FAO(UN) in Rome and Philippines. Besides supervising graduate students and teaching Statistics courses, Dr. Kumar provided statistical consulting on the experimental designs and analysis of research projects and sample survey studies. Dr. Kumar holds memberships on many international professional societies including the International Statistical Institute. He is member on the editorial boards of many international journals and serves as the referee. He also serves as external PhD thesis examiner. He acts as the reviewer of several international universities promotion and tenure committees.
Available to be contacted by the media as a subject matter expert

Selected publications

1. Kumar, P. Copulas, “Distribution Functions and Simulation”, In: Lovric, M. (eds) International Encyclopedia of Statistical Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-69359-9_137

2. Pranesh Kumar, “Analysis of Multifactor Imprecise Data Using Neutrosophic Statistics”, Jnanabha, Vol. 54(1), 2024. ISSN 0304-9892 (Print) ISSN 2455-7463 (Online) www.vijnanaparishadofindia.org/jnanabha

3. Pranesh Kumar, Mahdieh Moazzamigodarzi and Mohamadtaghi Rahimi, “Neutrosophic Analysis of the Experimental Data using Neutrosophic Graeco-Latin Square Design,” Axioms 2024, 13.

4. Pranesh Kumar, “Neutrosophic 22-Factorial Designs and Analysis”, International Journal of Applied Physics and Mathematics (IJAPM), 2023.doi: 10.17706/ijapm.2024.14.2…

5. Afsaneh Ashofteh Biraki and Pranesh Kumar, “Arctic Sea Ice Extent Analysis (1979-2022): A Neutrosophic Data Approach”, Axioms 2024.

6. Mohamadtaghi Rahimi, Pranesh Kumar, Mahdieh Moazzamigodarzi and Arunodaya R. Mishra, Digital transformation challenges in sustainable financial service systems using novel interval‐valued Pythagorean fuzzy double normalization‐based multiple aggregation approach, Environment, Development and Sustainability (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10668-022-02719-3

7. Pranesh Kumar and Mohamadtaghi Rahimi, “Neutrosophic Analysis of the Experimental Data using Neutrosophic Latin Square Design”, Journal of the Indian Society of Agricultural Statistics, 77(1), 2023,5-10.

8. Pranesh Kumar and Mohamadtaghi Rahimi, “Neutrosophic Analysis of Experimental Data from the Completely Randomized Block Design”, Journal of Fuzzy Logic and Engineering, 2023.

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