B. L. S. Prakasa Rao | |
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Born | 6 October 1942 82) | (age
Nationality | Indian |
Alma mater | Michigan State University Indian Statistical Institute Andhra University |
Awards | Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award (1982) P. V. Sukhatme Prize (2008) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Mathematics Statistics |
Doctoral advisor | Herman Rubin |
Bhagavatula Lakshmi Surya Prakasa Rao is an Indian statistician. He was born on 6 October 1942 in Porumamilla, Andhra Pradesh. [1] He completed his B.A. (Honours) course in Mathematics from Andhra University in 1960 and moved to the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, where he completed his M.Stat in Statistics in 1962. He graduated with a Ph.D in Statistics in 1966 from Michigan State University under Herman Rubin. He won the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology in Mathematical Sciences in 1982 from the Government of India, the Outstanding Alumni award from the Michigan State University in 1996, and the National Award in memory of P V Sukhatme in 2008 from the Government of India. The Indian Society for Probability and Statistics awarded him the C R Rao Lifetime Achievement Award in 2022. He is an elected Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (1983), Indian National Science Academy (1984), Indian Academy of Sciences (1992), and National Academy of Sciences (1993).
He worked at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur at the beginning of his career and later moved to Indian Statistical Institute, New Delhi. He was a Distinguished Scientist and Director of the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata from 1992 to 1995. He also held visiting professorships at the University of California, Berkeley, University of Illinois, University of Wisconsin, Purdue University, University of California, Davis and University of Iowa. He has held the Jawaharlal Nehru Chair Professorship (2006–08), Dr. Homi J. Bhabha Chair Professorship (2008–12) at the University of Hyderabad, and the Ramanujan Chair Professorship (2012–17) at CR Rao Advanced Institute of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science. Professor Prakasa Rao served as an INSA Senior Scientist at the CR Rao Advanced Institute of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science (CR Rao AIMSCS) from 2018 to 2023. He is currently an Emeritus Professor of the Indian Statistical Institute, and an INSA Honorary Scientist at the CR Rao AIMSCS.
Among the books he has written are: [2]
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