Shailaja Deshmukh is a Professor of Statistics at the University of Pune, India. Her areas of interest are inference in stochastic processes, applied probability and analysis of microarray data. She has authored three books - Microarray Data: Statistical Analysis Using R, (jointly with Dr. Sudha Purohit), Statistics Using R (jointly with Dr. Sudha Purohit and Prof. Sharad Gore) and Actuarial Statistics: An Introduction Using R. She has a number of research publications in various peer-reviewed journals.