Calyampudi Radhakrishna Rao was an Indian-American mathematician and statistician. He was professor emeritus at Pennsylvania State University and research professor at the University at Buffalo. Rao was honoured by numerous colloquia,honorary degrees,and festschrifts and was awarded the US National Medal of Science in 2002. The American Statistical Association has described him as "a living legend" whose work has influenced not just statistics,but has had far reaching implications for fields as varied as economics,genetics,anthropology,geology,national planning,demography,biometry,and medicine." The Times of India listed Rao as one of the top 10 Indian scientists of all time.
Chintamani Nagesa Ramachandra Rao,,is an Indian chemist who has worked mainly in solid-state and structural chemistry. He has honorary doctorates from 86 universities from around the world and has authored around 1,800 research publications and 56 books. He is described as a scientist who had won all possible awards in his field except the Nobel Prize.
David Harold Blackwell was an American statistician and mathematician who made significant contributions to game theory,probability theory,information theory,and statistics. He is one of the eponyms of the Rao–Blackwell theorem. He was the first African American inducted into the National Academy of Sciences,the first African American full professor at the University of California,Berkeley,and the seventh African American to receive a Ph.D. in mathematics. In 2012,President Barack Obama posthumously awarded Blackwell the National Medal of Science.
Peter Whittle was a mathematician and statistician from New Zealand,working in the fields of stochastic nets,optimal control,time series analysis,stochastic optimisation and stochastic dynamics. From 1967 to 1994,he was the Churchill Professor of Mathematics for Operational Research at the University of Cambridge.
Craig Jon Hawker is an Australian-born chemist. His research has focused on the interface between organic and polymer chemistry,with emphasis on the design,synthesis,and application of well-defined macromolecular structures in biotechnology,microelectronics,and surface science. Hawker holds more than 45 U.S. patents,and he has co-authored over 300 papers in the areas of nanotechnology,materials science,and chemistry. He was listed as one of the top 100 most cited chemists worldwide over the decade 1992–2002,and again in 2000–2010.
Kantilal Vardichand "Kanti" Mardia is an Indian-British statistician specialising in directional statistics,multivariate analysis,geostatistics,statistical bioinformatics and statistical shape analysis. He was born in Sirohi,Rajasthan,India in a Jain family and now resides and works in Leeds. He is known for his series of tests of multivariate normality based measures of multivariate skewness and kurtosis as well as work on the statistical measures of shape.
Lawrence David (Larry) Brown was Miers Busch Professor and Professor of Statistics at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia,Pennsylvania. He is known for his groundbreaking work in a broad range of fields including decision theory,recurrence and partial differential equations,nonparametric function estimation,minimax and adaptation theory,and the analysis of census data and call-center data.
David Victor Hinkley was a statistician known for his research in statistical models and inference and for his graduate-level books.
Manchanahalli Rangaswamy Satyanarayana Rao was an Indian scientist. He was awarded the fourth-highest civilian award,the Padma Shri,for Science and Engineering in 2010. From 2003 to 2013 he was president of Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR) in Bangalore,India.
Anil kumar Bhattacharyya was an Indian statistician who worked at the Indian Statistical Institute in the 1930s and early 40s. He made fundamental contributions to multivariate statistics,particularly for his measure of similarity between two multinomial distributions,known as the Bhattacharyya coefficient,based on which he defined a metric,the Bhattacharyya distance. This measure is widely used in comparing statistical samples in biology,genetics,physics,computer science,etc.
Jianqing Fan is a statistician,financial econometrician,and data scientist. He is currently the Frederick L. Moore '18 Professor of Finance,Professor of Operations Research and Financial Engineering,Professor of Statistics and Machine Learning,and a former Chairman of Department of Operations Research and Financial Engineering (2012–2015) and a former director of Committee of Statistical Studies (2005–2017) at Princeton University,where he directs both statistics lab and financial econometrics lab since 2008.
Pranab Kumar Sen was an Indian-American statistician who was a professor of statistics and the Cary C. Boshamer Professor of Biostatistics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Narinder Kumar Gupta is a research scientist,educator,and engineer. Born 22 August 1942 in Mirpur,Jammu and Kashmir,India,is Professor of Mechanics at the Indian Institute of Technology in Delhi. Gupta works in the area of large deformations of metals and composites at low,medium and high rates of loading. His research stimulates the development of constitutive behaviour of materials,understanding of the basic mechanics of large deformation,design for crashworthiness of road and air vehicles,design for safety in defence applications and in design of metal forming processes.
Bhagavatula Lakshmi Surya Prakasa Rao is an Indian statistician. He was born on 6 October 1942 in Porumamilla,Andhra Pradesh. 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).
Raymond James Carroll is an American statistician,and Distinguished Professor of statistics,nutrition and toxicology at Texas A&M University. He is a recipient of 1988 COPSS Presidents' Award and 2002 R. A. Fisher Lectureship. He has made fundamental contributions to measurement error model,nonparametric and semiparametric modeling.
Arup Bose is an Indian statistician. He is a Professor of Theoretical Statistics and Mathematics,in Indian Statistical Institute,Kolkata.
Probal Chaudhuri is an Indian statistician. He is a professor of theoretical statistics and mathematics in the Indian Statistical Institute,Kolkata.
Priscilla E. (Cindy) Greenwood is a Canadian mathematician who is a professor emeritus of mathematics at the University of British Columbia. She is known for her research in probability theory.
Constance van Eeden was a Dutch mathematical statistician who made "exceptional contributions to the development of statistical sciences in Canada". She was interested in nonparametric statistics including maximum likelihood estimation and robust statistics,and did foundational work on parameter spaces.
Rabindra Nath Bhattacharya is a mathematician/statistician at the University of Arizona. He works in the fields of probability theory and theoretical statistics where he has made fundamental contributions to long-standing problems in both areas. Most notable are (1) his solution to the multidimensional rate of convergence problem for the central limit theorem in his Ph.D. thesis published in the Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society and further elaborated in a research monograph written jointly with R. Ranga Rao and (2) the solution of the validity of the formal Edgeworth expansion in collaboration with J.K. Ghosh in 1978. He has also contributed significantly to the theory and application of Markov processes,including numerous co-authored papers on problems in groundwater hydrology with Vijay K. Gupta,and in economics with Mukul Majumdar. Most recently his research has focused on nonparametric statistical inference on manifolds and its applications. He is a co-author of three graduate texts and four research monographs. A comprehensive selection of Bhattacharya's work is available in a special 2016 Contemporary Mathematicians volume published by Birkhäuser. He is married to Bithika Gouri Bhattacharya,with a daughter,a son,and four grandchildren.
