Jyoti Prasad Medhi

Jyotiprasad Medhi was a professor of statistics at Gauhati University and Institute of Advanced Study in Science and Technology.

Work and education Medhi started his schooling in Dibrugarh and in 1940 he passed matriculation from Dibrugarh Government High School. After matriculation, he did his graduate studies in Cotton College, Guwahati in 1946 and was a gold medalist in BSc with Honours in mathematics. There he received the Sudmerson Gold Medal and Rajanikant Barat Gold Medal. Thereon Medhi moved to France to complete his DSc at the University of Paris in 1956 under the supervision of Robert Fortet, while Georges Darmois and Daniel Dugué served on his thesis examination committee. He had also taken a diploma in French Language with mention 'Honorable'. Its worthy to mention that he had written his doctoral thesis in French Language. Earlier in Gauhati University, both mathematics and statistics were in a common department, however, under the able leadership of Prof Medhi, statistics became a full-fledged individual department. In 1987, two years after retirement, he was entitled the honour of professor emeritus at the same university and remained so until his death in 2017. He also published two books on stochastic processes each with over 500 citations. In 2016, Medhi was conferred an Honorary doctorate DSc by Tezpur University.