Swagata Nandi is currently an Associate Professor at the Theoretical Statistics and Mathematics Unit of the Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi Center. She received her M.Sc. and Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. In her Ph. D, she worked under the guidance of Professor Debasis Kundu and Professor S. K. Iyer. Before joining Indian Statistical Institute in 2005, she was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Heidelberg and at the University of Mannheim, Germany. Her research interests include statistical signal processing, nonlinear regression, analysis of surrogate data, EM algorithms and survival analysis. She has published more than 35 research papers in various national and international journals and co-authored a monograph on Statistical Signal Processing. She is the recipient of the Indian Science Congress Association Young Scientist award and the C.L. Chandana Award for Students.