The academic year 2018-2019 started with the celebration of “ National Statistics Day “ held on June 29, 2018. This was attended by all students of B.Sc. (CMS and EMS) and Dr. Vinod Kumar Murti, Country Head-India, Institute of Analytics, U.K  gave a talk on “ Career in Analytics” .  A session on six-sigma was conducted for final year EMS and CMS students on 14 July 2018 to enable to grasp quality control concepts in a practical way. The resource person was Mr. Mohit Gupta, who is a certified sigma black belt. Dr. R Venugopal spoke to the students on “ Application of Statistical methods in Biological Sciences: Road ahead” which gave a detailed insight to how statistics is being used in agriculture and horticulture. This talk, held on 11 December 2018 was significant as it was aimed at graduating students of B.Sc. (CMS and EMS). Mr. Stebin Xavier, a Biostatistician in GSK India is an alumnus of CHRIST and he visited the department on 15 December, 2018 and gave a talk on “ Application of Bio Statistics in Pharmaceutical Industry”. This talk, aimed at first year students of B.Sc (CMS and EMS) also emphasized the use of Statistics and its tools in solving real life problems. In addition, he also spoke to second year students on “ Ethics In Pharmaceutical Research” wherein procedures and ethical issues were discussed.

The important fests of the department, namely “INFERENCE” (Inter Collegiate) and “MOMENTS” (Intra class) were held as part of National Science fest, organized by the Deanery of Sciences and by the Department respectively. Mr. Ganesh, spoke on a data scientist in IQVIA spoke to students about application and importance of Statistics and gave real world examples. The fests involved a lot of events like DATA BOT, DATA RELAY, DATA ANALYSIS etc. and students actively participated in all events.

In all, the year was highly student-oriented as they were engaged in varied activities throughout the year.