Balakrishnan Narayanaswamy

Background

Narayanaswamy was born on June 1, 1956, in Tamilnadu, India. He is the son of R. Narayanaswamy, an accountant, and N. (Lakshmi) Balakrishnan, homemaker.

Education

Balakrishnan graduated from the University of Madras with a Bachelor of Science degree in 1976 and with Master of Science degree two years later. He studied at Indian Institute of Technology and finished it in 1982.

Balakrishnan is a recipient of the doctoral degree from Punjab Technical University.

Career

Balakrishnan is a writer of a big amount of works, books and researches. During his life he has been working at several positions in McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.

In McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada he was a research fellow from 1985 to 1986. He took a position of assistant professor in 1986, and stayed there for 3 years, becoming an associate professor that year, he held this post till 1995. He has been working as a professor of mathematics and statistics from 1995 till present. He held the Satish Dhawan chair professorship of the Division of Information Sciences of IISc from 2003 to 2006.

Nowadays he is also a sole proprietor in Statpro Consulting.

He is also a visiting professor of Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research and the Institute for Software Research International, Carnegie Mellon University and works as a director of the Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management, Industrial Finance Corporation of India, Bharat Sanchar Nigam and the Data Security Council of India.

Currently he is heading the National Supercomuting Mission of India approved by Government of India as 7-year project. He works on researches on order statistics, outliers, multivariate distribution theory, reliability, and quality control.

Achievements

• Balakrishnan is known as a contributor to the establishment of the National Centre for Science Information and Supercomputer Education Research Centre at the Indian Institute of Science.
  
  His scientific achievements and observations have been recorded in over 230 articles, which were published in many peer reviewed national and international journals. Google Scholar, an online repository of scientific articles, listing 216 of them.
  
  He received many awards during his career.
  
  He received the UNESCO/ROSTSCA Young Scientist Award in 1985 and the J. C. Bose Memorial Award of the Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers (IETE) in 1987.
  
  Balakrishnan won Sri Hari Om Prerit Dr. Vikram Sarabhai Research Award in 1995 and two years later, he received the Platinum Jubilee lecture Award from the Indian Science Congress.
  
  He received two awards in 1998, the Institute for the Future Award and the Aeronautical Society of India Aerospace Education Excellence Award.
  
  He received the Millennium Medal from The Indian National Science Congress in 2000 and he also received the J. C. Bose Memorial Award for a second time in 2001, which was followed by the Alumni Award for Excellence from the Indian Institute of Science.
  
  The Government of India honoured him with the civilian award of Padma Shri in 2002. Balakrishnan won the Homi J. Bhabha Award from The Hari Om Ashram Trust in 2004, as well as the Outstanding Alumnus Medal from Coimbatore Institute of Technology in 2006.
  
  He received the Academy Excellence Award from the Defence Research and Development Organization in 2009 and Prof. S. N. Mitra Memorial Award from the Indian National Academy of Engineering in 2013.

Works

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  • Relations, Bounds and Approximations for Order Statistics (Lecture Notes in Statistics)

    (Bounds on moments of order statistics have been of intere...)

    1989
  • Order Statistics & Inference: Estimation Methods 1991

Views

Quotations: "My primary motivation for writing is a desire to collect and synthesize all published results in a specific area. I choose a topic of current interest that does not have a consolidated volume. First I do an exhaustive search of the literature. Then I present the results in a coherent and logically organized form. I enjoy writing. I enjoy taking up such a task and facing the challenge that it poses.”

Membership

Balakrishnan, a 2007 J. C. Bose National Fellow of the Department of Science and Technology, is an elected Fellow of Third World Academy of Sciences, Indian National Science Academy, Indian Academy of Sciences, Indian National Academy of Engineering, National Academy of Sciences, India and Institution of Electronic and Telecommunication Engineers.

He is a member of Royal Statistical Society, American Society for Quality Control, American Statistical Association and Statistical Society of Canada.

Interests

• Stamp collecting

• Music & Bands

  Classical Indian music

Connections

Balakrishnan married Colleen D. Cutler on December 15, 1985, they have 2 children - Sarah Malathy and Julia Lakshmi.

Mother:

N. (Lakshmi) Balakrishnan

Wife:

Colleen D. Cutler

Daughter:

Sarah Malathy

Daughter:

Julia Lakshmi

fathter:

R. Narayanaswamy