Saralees Nadarajah

Saralees Nadarajah is a British statistician and researcher specialising in distribution theory, extreme value theory, nonparametric statistics, and their applications. He is also a professor at the Department of Mathematics, University of Manchester and has worked at the Department of Statistics at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and the University of South Florida.

Early life and education Nadarajah was born in Sri Lanka and grew up in Zimbabwe. He obtained his B.Sc. in mathematics from the University of Zimbabwe in Harare. Nadarajah earned his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in statistics from the University of Sheffield in the UK, in 1991 and 1994 respectively.

Career As of April 2025, Nadarajah is a professor at the Department of Mathematics, University of Manchester. He was previously affiliated with the Department of Statistics, University of Nebraska–Lincoln and the University of South Florida.

Nadarajah is the founder of Educate Africa project which he started in 2017.

Research Nadarajah specializes in statistical fields including extreme value and distribution theory, nonparametric statistics, information theory, and reliability. His expertise also extends to sampling theory, statistical software development, and time series analysis.

Awards and recognition Jacob Wolfowitz Prize (2007) University of Manchester Education Award (2021)

Selected publications

Extreme value distributions: theory and applications (2000) Multivariate t-distributions and their applications (2004) Handbook of beta distribution and its applications (2004) A generalized normal distribution (2005) The beta exponential distribution (2006) Lindley distribution and its application (2008) On the inefficiency of Bitcoin (2017)