Rahul Mukerjee

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Rahul Mukerjee
Born (1956-02-09) 9 February 1956 (age 67) [1]
Kolkata, West Bengal, India
NationalityFlag of India.svg  India
CitizenshipFlag of India.svg  India
Awards Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award (2000)

J.C. Bose National Fellowship (2010–15, 2015-20)

Mahalanobis International Award (2017)

P.V. Sukhatme National Award in Statistics (2018)

National Science Chair (2021-24)
Scientific career
FieldsStatistics
Institutions IIM Calcutta

Rahul Mukerjee is an Indian academic and statistician. He is a National Science Chair of the Government of India, hosted by the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, [1] after his superannuation from the same institute in 2021 as a professor in the higher academic grade.

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Biography

Mukerjee completed his BSc (Hons) and MSc degrees in Statistics at the University of Calcutta, with rank first in the first class in each case. [2] He received his PhD in Statistics in 1982 from the University of Calcutta. [2]

Career

After completing his education, Mukerjee taught briefly at University of Calcutta and then at the Indian Statistical Institute, where he was awarded an out-of-turn promotion to full professorship at the age of thirty three. He joined IIM Calcutta as a full professor in 1989. [3] He has also held short- or long-term visiting positions in many institutions around the world, including Harvard University, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Berkeley, Rutgers University, University of Michigan, Pennsylvania State University, Georgia Institute of Technology, University of Georgia, University of Florida, University of Toronto, University of Waterloo, Simon Fraser University, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Hiroshima University, University of Hong Kong, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Nankai University, Seoul National University, National University of Singapore, University of Malaya, Kuwait University and University of São Paulo. [3]

Mukerjee has been on the editorial boards of such major international journals as The Annals of Statistics , Biometrika , Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B, and Statistica Sinica .

Achievements

Selected bibliography

Rahul Mukerjee has authored or co-authored 5 books and over 240 papers. [9]

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  2. 1 2 3 4 5 "IIM-C Faculty Information: Rahul Mukerjee – Academics". iimcal.ac.in. Retrieved 20 February 2010.
  3. 1 2 "IIM-C Faculty Information: Rahul Mukerjee – Experience". iimcal.ac.in. Retrieved 20 February 2010.
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