Dr. Harisankar S. is an Assistant Professor by profession and holds a Ph.D. in Statistics from the University of Kerala. His research interests span Distribution Theory, Statistical Inference, Multivariate Analysis, and Statistical Modelling. He has over 12 years of professional experience combining academia and government service. This includes over three years of teaching as Assistant Professor at the Asian School of Business and St. Joseph University, Bengaluru, along with nine years of service in the Government sector, where he gained extensive applied knowledge in statistical analysis and modelling. His academic excellence has been recognized through several prestigious awards, including the Prof. A. M. Mathai Best Ph.D. Thesis Award (National Level, 2022) instituted by the Prof. A. M. Mathai Endowment Fund, the Prof. R. N. Pillai Best Research Paper Award, and the Prof. Jacob Sundararaja Best Research Paper Award, both from the University of Kerala. He has also published widely in Scopus-indexed and reputed international and national journals and presented papers at major conferences.Dr. Harisankar has published extensively in Scopus-indexed and reputed international and national journals, and his work has been presented at leading conferences. His teaching interests include Distribution Theory, Inference, and Multivariate Statistics, Operations Research, Reliability Theory, Statistics for Managers, Sampling Theory while his research interests focus on the development of generalized statistical distributions and their applications.

Education

• PhD in Statistics, Dept. of Statistics, University of Kerala, Trivandrum 
• M.Phil in Statistics, Dept. of Statistics, University of Kerala, Trivandrum 
• M.Sc Statistics, University of Kerala, Trivandrum 
• B.Sc. Statistics, University of Kerala, Trivandrum

Work Experience

• Assistant Professor – Department of Statistics, St. Joseph University, Bengaluru : July 2025 –  September 2025:
• Assistant Professor – Asian School of Business, Trivandrum : 2022 – 2025
• Govt. Employee- Dept. of Mining & Geology, Govt. of Kerala: 2013-2022

Area of interest

• Distribution Theory
• Statistical Inference
• Multivariate Analysis
• Operations Research
• Reliability Theory
• Statistics for Managers
• Sampling Theory

Journal Publication

• Rohini S. Nair & E.I. Abdul Sathar and Harisankar. S. (2025). Characterization of Generalized Dynamic Failure Entropy for Past Lifetime Distributions. Journal of the Kerala Statistical Association, 35(1), 77-89.
• Kumar, C. S., & Harisankar, S. (2025). On a wide class of generalized geometric distribution for over and under dispersed data sets, Statistica Applicata (Scopus Q4) 
• Kumar, C. S., & Harisankar, S. (2024). Doubly Generalized Yule Distribution of Order k and its Applications. Mathematical Methods of Statistics, 33(3), 227-238.  (Scopus Q4) 
• Kumar, C. S & Harisankar. S (2023), On Some Properties of Extended Doubly Generalized Yule Distribution, Journal of the Indian Statistical Association, 61(1&2), 79-98. (Q4) 
• Kumar, C. S., & Harisankar, S. (2022). Bivariate generalized Yule distribution: properties and applications. Communications in Statistics-Simulation and Computation, 52(7), 3233-3256. (Scopus Q2) 
• Kumar, C. S & Harisankar. S (2022), Generalized geometric distribution of order k, Asian Journal of Statistical Sciences, 2(2):159-171(Q4) 
• Kumar, C. S., & Harisankar, S. (2021). Bivariate Extended Yule Distribution. American Journal of Mathematical and Management Sciences, 40(4), 340-356. (Scopus Q3) 
•  Kumar, C. S & Harisankar. S (2020), On Some Aspects of a General Class of Yule Distribution and its Applications, Communication in Statistics-Theory and Methods, 49(12): 2887-2897. (Scopus Q3) 
• Kumar, C. S & Harisankar. S (2020), Modeling Over-Dispersed Data Sets Using Generalized Geometric Distribution, Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation, 90(4):606- 623. (Scopus Q2) 
• Kumar, C. S & Harisankar. S (2020), On Some Aspects of Generalized Extended Yule Distribution: Properties and Applications, Journal of Advances in Applied and Computational Mathematics, 7(1):49- 56; 
• Kumar, C. S & Harisankar. S (2020), Modified Geometric Distribution: Properties and Applications, Stochastic Modeling and Applications, 24(1):43-54. (UGC-CARE approved)
• Kumar, C. S & Harisankar. S (2019), Bivariate Version of Yule Distribution and Some of its Properties, Journal of Statistics and Mathematical Engineering, 5(1):7-14
• Kumar, C. S & Harisankar. S (2018), On a Modified Yule Distribution, Statistica, 78(2):169-18. (Scopus Q3) 
• Dr. Harisankar S. & Keren S. David (2024). A Study on Brand Loyalty towards Renault Cars with Special Reference to TVS Mobility, Kochi. Proceedings of the 7th Social Sciences Research Colloquium 2024-25 published by SCMS Group of Educational Institutions, 1:77-88.
• Kumar, C. S & Harisankar. S (2018), An Alternative to Zero Inflated Yule Distribution, Proceedings of the National Conference on Advances in Statistical Methods, Department of Statistical Sciences, Kannur University, 1:79-88. 
• Kumar, C. S & Harisankar. S (2018), On Some Aspects of Modified Zero-Inflated Alternative Yule Distribution, Proceedings of the International Conference on Numerical Analysis, Computing and Application in Science, Engineering and Technology, Mohandas College of Engineering and Technology, Trivandrum, 1:79-88.

Paper Presentation

• Attended National conference on Current Developments in Statistics -2025 (NCCDS-2025) conducted by Department of Statistics, University of Kerala during 26-28, June 2025 and presented a paper titled “Doubly generalized Yule distribution of order k and its applications”.
• Attended 3 day International Conference on Advanced Data Analytics and Statistics-2025 (ICADS 2025) organized by Department of Statistics, Vimala College, Thrissur in conjunction with Kerala Statistical Association (KSA) from 23-25 January, 2025 held at Vimala College, Thrissur and presented a paper titled “On Stuttering Generalized Yule Distribution and Its Properties”.
• Attended Annual conference of International Indian Statistical Association jointly organized by Department of Statistics, Cochin University of Science and Technology and International Indian Statistical Association from 27-31 December, 2024 held at Cochin University of Science and Technology and presented a paper titled “Alpha Generalized Geometric Distribution”.
• Attended an International conference on Advances in Data Analytics & Official Statistics organized by Department of Statistics, Savitribai Phule University from 23rd-26th May 2024 at Pune University and presented a paper titled “Alpha Generalized Geometric Distribution”.
• Attended an International Conference on Recent Trends in Statistics and Data Analytics (RTSD- 2023) jointly organized by the Kerala Statistical Association (KSA) in conjunction with its 44th annual conference and the Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics, Mar Ivanios College (Autonomous) from 31st March to 1st April 2023 at Mar Ivanios College, Trivandrum and presented a paper titled “On Some Properties and Applications of Bivariate Extended Yule Distribution”

Workshop Attended

• Two-day Workshop on Power BI conducted by XIME Kochi on 26th & 27th September 2024.
• National workshop on Sample Size and Power Analysis in Medical Research Organised by the Department of Biostatistics, NIMHANS during 22-24, September 2022

Awards and Achievements

• Won “Prof. Jacob Sundara Raja Best Paper Award” instituted by Department of Statistics, University of Kerala for the year 2025.
• Awarded Prof. A.M. Mathai Best Ph.D Thesis Award for the year 2022 instituted by International Statistics Fraternity (ISF), School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences and Department of Statistics, University of Kerala, Trivandrum. (National Level Award)
• Won “Prof. R. N. Pillai Best Paper Award” instituted by Department of Statistics University of Kerala  for the year 2019.