A Tribute to the Legend of Professor C. R. Rao / Indian Statistical Institute Series (PDF)

(1977). Earlier, he served as Professor of Statistics at the University of Southern Maine, USA. He has published over 130 journal articles and has several edited book volumes to his credit including one with Professor C. R. Rao. He has provided research guidance to students at all levels from undergraduate to doctorate, including 20 graduate students, 8 undergraduate students, and 10 Ph.D. students. His research has been funded by major US funding agencies like the National Science Foundation, National Institute of Health, Mathematical Association of America, American Statistical Association, and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Fellow of the American Statistical Association, Prof. Gupta has bagged several awards in his illustrious career, including the Senior University-wide Research Excellence Award; Senior College of Arts and Sciences Teaching Excellence Award at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro, USA; Outstanding Faculty Award and the Outstanding Teacher/Scholar Award from theUniversity of Southern Maine, USA; Distinguished Service Award for the Cause of Statistics given by the North Carolina Chapter of the American Statistical Association; and the Sankhyiki Bhushan Award from the Indian Society of Agricultural Statistics. He is Founding Editor-in-Chief of the prestigious Journal of Statistical Theory and Practice (Springer) since 2007.

RAJKUMAR ROYCHOUDHURY is former Professor at the Physics and Applied Mathematics Unit of the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata. He holds a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Durham, England (1970). He completed his M.Sc. in Applied Mathematics from the University of Calcutta, Kolkata, India, in 1965. He was awarded the President's Gold Medal in 1963 for obtaining the highest marks among all B.Sc. students and went to England on a state scholarship for a higher education in 1966. His areas of research are quantum mechanics, plasma physics, nonlinear dynamics, and quantitative linguistics. After a stint with theWest Bengal Education Service, Prof. Roychoudhury joined Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), Kolkata, in 1977. He retired from ISI in 2006 as Professor and Head at the Physics and Applied Mathematics Unit. He has visited universities and institutions around the world, including in Canada, Taiwan, China, and Europe, as a visiting scientist and an invited speaker. He has more than 250 publications in international journals of repute to his credit.