Welcome to my St. Petersburg College website.

At the outset, I thank you for visiting the website and take this opportunity to introduce myself. My name is Lakshminarayan Rajaram.

As of today, January 1, 2024, I started my 25th year of teaching at the St. Petersburg College, Tarpon Springs Campus.

EDUCATION AND PAST POSITIONS:
My graduate education is in theoretical and applied mathematics as well as applied statistics. My Ph.D. degree is in mathematics with concentration being applied statistics. I truly enjoy teaching, and hope to continue teaching for many years to come.

Before coming to St. Petersburg College in January 2000, I held the following positions in the pharma industry and the universities where I extensively applied the principles and techniques of statistics to model and analyze the data from the biomedical research and epidemiological studies:

• Statistician, Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, The Johns Hopkins University Medical School, Baltimore
• Biostatistician/Data Manager, Clinical Research Division of TheraTech Inc. (pharmaceutical company), Salt Lake City
• Data managment associate in the Biometric Division of Baker Norton Pharmaceuticals (Ivax Corporation), Miami
• Biostatistician, Institute of Aging and Epidemiology/Biostatistics Department, College of Public Health at the University of South Florida, Tampa
• Consulting Data Manager/Biostatistician, Lawton Rhea Chiles Center for Healthy Mothers and Babies, University of South Florida, Tampa

EXPERIENCE

My experience includes teaching both undergraduate and graduate courses in statistics and mathematics, mathematical modeling, pharmacokinetics and bioequivalence, and statistical evaluation of the clinical data from multi-center clinical trials and epidemiological studies.

CURRENT ACADEMIC POSITIONS OUTSIDE OF SPC

In addition to being a Professor of Mathematics & Statistics in St. Petersburg College, I hold the Affiliate Assistant Professor position in the College of Public Health at the University of South Florida.

STATISTICAL ADVISORY MEMBER OF PHD COMMITTEES AT THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA

I have served as a statistical advisory member of the Ph.D. committee in the Departments of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, Global Health, and Civil & Environmental Engineering. 

INTERNATIONAL TEACHING
During my time off from St. Petersburg College, I travel abroad and present workshops, presentions and lectures in conferences as well as short courses in such diverse areas as:

RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS
(To know more about my research publications, please click on the following link:
www.researchgate.net/profile/Lakshminarayan_Rajaram

As a clinical biostatistician, I have been doing collaborative research/consulting with scientific researchers, physicians and doctoral students in engineering and public health, leading to publications in the following journals of:

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP
Global Advisory Board: The Journal of Emergencies, Trauma, Shock, Synergizing Basic Science, Clinical Medicine & Global Health.