Jayanta Kumar Ghosh or Jaẏanta Kumāra Ghosha is an Indian statistician, currently emeritus professor at Indian Statistical Institute and a professor of statistics at Purdue University.
Education
He obtained a Bachelor of Surgery from Presidency College, then affiliated with the, and subsequently a Master of Arts and a Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Calcutta. 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.
Career
He obtained a Bachelor of Surgery from Presidency College, then affiliated with the University of Calcutta, and subsequently a Master of Arts 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 West. 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 P. V.
Achievements
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
P. V. Sukhatme Prize for Statistics, 2000
Mahalanobis Memorial Lecture, State Science and Technology Congress, W. Bengal, 2003
Doctor of Science (hc), British Columbia Roy Agricultural University, W. Bengal, India, 2006
Padma Shree (2014) by the Government of India.