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Malay Ghosh
Distinguished Professor

Malay Ghosh

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Distinguished Professor
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Place of birth
Kolkata, West Bengal, India
Age
87 years
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Biography

Malay Ghosh (Bengali: মলয় ঘোষ) is an Indian statistician and currently a Distinguished Professor at the University of Florida. He obtained a B.S. in 1962 from the University of Calcutta, and subsequently a M.A. in 1964 from the University of Calcutta.

Then he moved to the United States to pursue higher academic studies and obtained his Ph.D. degree in 1969 from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, under the supervision of Pranab K. Sen.

Career

Ghosh was a faculty member at the Indian Statistical Institute in the 1970s before briefly joining Iowa State University. In 1982 he joined the University of Florida. Ghosh is well known for his research in nonparametric inference, sequential analysis, decision theory, Bayesian statistics and small-area estimation. As a recognition of his seminal contributions, Ghosh served from 1996 to 2001 in the United States Census Advisory Committee.

He has co-authored two books and more than 250 research publications and is the advisor of over 40 Ph.D. students, including Nitis Mukhopadhyay, Parthasarathi Lahiri and Gauri Sankar Datta.

Honors

In College Park, Maryland, a conference will be held in May 2014 honoring Professor Ghosh.

  • Elected Fellow of Institute of Mathematical Statistics
  • Elected Fellow of American Statistical Association, 1984
  • Lukacs Distinguished Professor 1993-1994
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