Dr. Rituparna Sen is Associate Professor at the Applied Statistics Division, Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore.

She worked as Assistant Professor at the University of California at Davis from 2004–2011 after obtaining a Ph.D. in statistics from the University of Chicago, USA. She has also taught courses in Chennai Mathematical Institute and Madras School of Economics.

She has authored over thirty papers and a book on Computational Finance with R. She is the editor of the journal Applied Stochastic Models in Business and Industry and associate editor of several other journals.

Rituparna is an elected member of the International Statistical Institute and a council member of the International Society for Business and Industrial Statistics.

She has been awarded the Young Statistical Scientist Award by the International Indian Statistical Association, the Best Student Paper Award by the American Statistical Association and the Women in Mathematical Sciences award by Technical University of Munich, Germany.