Staff Profile
Dr Kiran Prajapat
Lecturer in Mathematical Sciences
- Email: kiran.prajapat@ncl.ac.uk
- Personal Website: https://sites.google.com/view/kiran-prajapat/home
- Address: Room 4.15a, Herschel Building
School of Mathematics, Statistics, and Physics
Newcastle University
Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
NE1 7RU
Background
Education
- PhD in Statistics, IIT Kanpur, India
- MSc in Statistics (Specialization in Actuarial Science), CURaj, Rajasthan, India
- BSc in Physics, Chemistry, and Mathematics, MDSU, Rajasthan, India
Postdoc
- RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany
- Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore Centre, Karnataka, India
Teaching
Modules (2024/25)
- Module leader, Professional Skills for Accounting and Finance/Introductory Quantitative Methods & Principles Of Taxation - ACC1012/ACC1053
- Module leader, Clinical Research Statistics (E-Learning) - MCR8019
- Lecturer, Data-Centric Ground Engineering - CEG8220
- Supervisor, Research Methods - NBS8062
Research
Research Interests
Lifetime data analysis, likelihood-based inference, non-regular families of distributions, statistical quality control, and optimal planning of accelerated life-testing experiments.
For more details: Google Scholar
PhD Supervision
Juliana Okodoa (2025-present). Bayesian assurance methods to design the reliability demonstration tests. Supervision jointly with Kevin Wilson.
Publications
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Articles
- Prajapat K, Mitra S, Kundu D. Optimal Hybrid Censoring Scheme for a Two-parameter Exponential Distribution based on a Constrained Multi-Criteria Optimization. 2024.
- Prajapat K, Mondal S, Mitra S, Kundu D. Meta-analysis of exponential lifetime data from Type-I hybrid censored samples. Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods 2024, 53(11), 3973-3991.
- Prajapat K, Kateri M. Bayesian Planning under Step-stress Accelerated Life-testing. 2024. In Preparation.
- Prajapat K, Mitra S, Kundu D. A Consistent Method for Modeling Three-Parameter Generalized Exponential Distribution with Applications to COVID-19 and Electrical Lifetime Data. 2024.
- Prajapat K, Koley A, Mitra S, Kundu D. An Optimal Bayesian Sampling Plan for Two-Parameter Exponential Distribution Under Type-I Hybrid Censoring. Sankhya A 2023, 85, 512-539.
- Prajapat K, Mitra S, Kundu D. A consistent method of estimation for three-parameter generalized exponential distribution. Communications in Statistics - Simulation and Computation 2021, 52(6), 2471-2487.