Rahul Mukerjee is an eminent Indian academic and statistician.
Education
Mukerjee completed his Bachelor of Science (Honours) and Master of Science degrees in Statistics at the University of Calcutta in 1975 and 1977 respectively, with rank first in the first class in each case. He later received his Doctor of Philosophy in Statistics in 1982 from the University of Calcutta.
Career
He is a professor of statistics, in the higher academic grade, at Indian Institute of Management Calcutta. After completing his education, Mukerjee taught briefly at University of Calcutta and then at the Indian Statistical Institute, where he was awarded an out-of-turn promotion to full professorship at the age of thirty three. He joined Indian Institutes of Management Calcutta as a full professor in 1989.
At Indian Institutes of Management-C, Mukerjee teaches courses in the fields of Statistics and Mathematics.
In addition to his full-time position at Indian Institutes of Management Calcutta, he has held shortor long-term visiting positions in many institutions around the world, including Harvard University, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Berkeley, University of Michigan, Pennsylvania State University, Georgia Institute of Technology, University of Georgia, University of Florida, University of Toronto, University of Waterloo, Simon Fraser University, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Hiroshima University, University of Hong Kong, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Nankai University, Seoul National University, National University of Singapore, University of Malaya, Kuwait University and University of São Paulo. Mukerjee is or has been on the editorial boards of such major international journals as The Annals of Statistics, Biometrika, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B, and Statistica Sinica.
Membership
He is also a J.C. Bose National Fellow, and a member of the National Statistical Commission, Government of India. Appointed as a member of the National Statistical Commission, Government of India, for a period of three years starting 2013.