Rabi Bhattacharya

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Rabindra N. Bhattacharya
Humboldt Prize (1993)
Guggenheim Fellowship (2000)
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
Statistics
InstitutionsUniversity of California, Berkeley
University of Arizona
Indiana University
Thesis Berry-Esseen Bounds for the Multi-Dimensional Central Limit Theorem  (1967)
Doctoral advisorPatrick Billingsley
Websitemath.arizona.edu/~rabi/

Rabindra Nath Bhattacharya (born January 11, 1937) 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[1] published in the Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society[2] and further elaborated in a research monograph[3] 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.[4] 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. [5] He is a co-author of three graduate texts[6][7][8] and four research monographs.[5][9][10][11] A comprehensive selection of Bhattacharya's work is available in a special 2016 Contemporary Mathematicians volume published by Birkhäuser.[12] He is married to Bithika Gouri Bhattacharya, with a daughter, a son, and four grandchildren.

Early life and education

Bhattacharya was born January 11, 1937, in his ancestral home Porgola,

Ph.D. under direction of Patrick Billingsley at the University of Chicago
in 1967.

Academic career

His first academic position was as assistant professor in the Department of Statistics at the University of California, Berkeley. In 1972, he accepted a position as associate professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Arizona in Tucson, and was promoted to full professor in 1977. In 1982, he moved to Indiana University, where he remained until his retirement in 2002. Upon retirement from Indiana University, he was re-appointed as a tenured full professor at the University of Arizona, retiring in May, 2018.

Awards and honors

Bhattacharya has received many awards and honors, including Special Invited Papers in the

Humboldt Prize (1993) and the Guggenheim Fellowship (2000). He also gave an invited talk, now referred to as a Medallion Lecture[13] at the IMS
Annual Meeting in Chicago (1996).

References

  1. ^ Bhattacharya, Rabindra N. (1967). Berry-Esseen Bounds for the Multi-Dimensional Central Limit Theorem (PhD). University of Chicago.
  2. doi:10.1090/S0002-9904-1968-11923-8
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  3. MR 0436272
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  4. JSTOR 2958887
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  5. ^
    ISBN 9781107019584
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  6. ISBN 978-0-387-71939-9
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  7. ISBN 978-0-89871-689-4
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  8. ISBN 978-1-4939-4032-5
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    ISBN 978-3-0348-9964-2
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  10. ISBN 978-0521532723
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  11. ISBN 978-0-89871-897-3
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  12. ISBN 978-3-319-30190-7
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  13. ^ "List of Repecients of Medallion Lectures".

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