Jayanta Kumar Ghosh

Jayanta Kumar Ghosh (Bengali: জয়ন্ত কুমার ঘোষ, 23 May 1937 – 30 September 2017) was an Indian statistician, an emeritus professor at Indian Statistical Institute and a professor of statistics at Purdue University.

Education He obtained a B.S. from Presidency College, then affiliated with the University of Calcutta, and subsequently a M.A. and a Ph.D. from the University of Calcutta under the supervision of H. K. Nandi. He started his research career in the early 1960s, studying sequential analysis as a graduate student in the department of statistics at the University of Calcutta.

Research Among his best-known discoveries are the Bahadur–Ghosh–Kiefer representation (with R. R. Bahadur and Jack Kiefer) and the Ghosh–Pratt identity along with John W. Pratt.

His research contributions fall within the fields of: Bayesian inference Asymptotics Modeling and model selection High dimensional data analysis Nonparametric regression and density estimation Survival analysis Statistical genetics

Awards and honors Elected member of the International Statistical Institute Advisory editor, Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics Fellow of the Indian National Science Academy Life member and director of the Calcutta Statistical Association Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences Japanese Society for Promotion of Sciences Fellowship, 1978 Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology, 1981 President, Statistics Section of the Indian Science Congress Association, 1991 President, International Statistical Institute, 1993 Mahalanobis Gold Medal of Indian Science Congress Association, 1998 Invited speaker of the International Congress of Mathematicians, 1998 P. V. Sukhatme Prize for Statistics, 2000 Mahalanobis Memorial Lecture, State Science and Technology Congress, W. Bengal, 2003 D.Sc. (h.c.), B.C. Roy Agricultural University, W. Bengal, India, 2006 International Indian Statistical Association (IISA) Lifetime Achievement Award, 2010 Padma Shree (2014) by the Government of India