Welcome to my homepage.  Currently I am doing PhD in economics at the University of Illinois, Urbana ChampaignMy basic interest is to work in area of forecasting, especially time series analysis with application to financial data.  More specifically, I want to work in the area of forecasting volatility in the financial series. I did my B.Sc.(Statistics) from Presidency College, Kolkata and my M.S.(Statistics) from Indian Statistical Institute.