Career
He is a past president of the Indian Mathematical Society. He received his B.Sc and M.Sc degrees from Madras University. He worked on “Minimax Theorems and Product solutions for simple games” under the guidance of the eminent C. R. Rao and received Doctor of Philosophy during 1967 from the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata.
He was elected as Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences (1988) and Indian National Science Academy (1995).
He has advised about 10 doctoral students over his career spanning the University of Illinois, the Indian Statistical Institute and the Chennai Mathematics Institute.