Madan Lal Puri

Madan Lal Puri (born February 20, 1929) is a statistician from India who built his career in the United States. He was born on February 20, 1929 in Sialkot, and is known for his work in mathematics which has had profound effects on the way statistics is understood and applied. Due to this his family, including his parents Ganesh Das and S W Puri, fled as refugees to Delhi. Puri continued his studies in one of the new universities: the Panjab University in Chandigarh.

In September 1957, Puri moved the United States as he got appointed as an instructor and graduate student at the University of Colorado, Boulder. In 1958 he moved to the University of California, Berkeley, where he became a research assistant in statistics. His studies were supervised by Erich Lehmann and he was awarded his doctorate in 1962 after submitting a thesis titled Asymptotic Efficiency of a Class of c-Sample Tests. After this, he was appointed as an assistant professor and later associate professor at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences in New York. Kumble Subbaswamy, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Indiana University, Bloomington, said "...it was my great pleasure to honour Madan Lal Puri as College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Research Scholar. This rare designation is reserved for those who have become world leaders in a field while on the College faculty, and whose collected works are published because of their archival value."

He was ranked as the fourth most prolific statistician in the world in a report by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada. Among statisticians in universities which do not have a separate department of statistics, he was ranked number one in the world in the same report. 2014 Wilks Memorial Award 2008 Gottfried E. Noether Senior Scholar Award

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