Rahul Mukerjee

Rahul Mukerjee
Born	(1956-02-09) 9 February 1956 Kolkata, West Bengal, India
Residence	Kolkata, West Bengal, India
Citizenship	India
Nationality	India
Fields	Statistics
Institutions	IIM Calcutta
Notable awards	Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award (2000) J C Bose National Fellowship (2010–15)

Rahul Mukerjee is an eminent Indian academic and statistician. He is a professor of statistics, in the higher academic grade, at Indian Institute of Management Calcutta. He is also a J.C. Bose National Fellow, and a member of the National Statistical Commission, Government of India.

Biography

Mukerjee completed his BSc (Hons) and MSc 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 PhD in Statistics in 1982 from the University of Calcutta.

Career

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 IIM Calcutta as a full professor in 1989. At IIM-C, Mukerjee teaches courses in the fields of Statistics and Mathematics. In addition to his full-time position at IIM Calcutta, he has held short- or 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.

Achievements

• Recipient of Indian Science Congress Association Young Scientists' Award, 1985.
• Honored Fellow, Institute of Mathematical Statistics, USA, 1999.
• Recipient of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award, India's highest award in Science, for outstanding contributions to mathematical sciences, 2000.
• Recipient of the National Award in Statistics in honour of C.R. Rao, 2001, from the Government of India.
• Fellow, Indian Academy of Sciences, 2001.
• Fellow, Indian National Science Academy, 2003.
• Fellow, National Academy of Sciences, India, 2003.
• Recipient, J C Bose National Fellowship, 2010–15.
• Appointed as a member of the National Statistical Commission, Government of India, for a period of three years starting 2013.

Selected bibliography

Rahul Mukerjee has authored or co-authored 5 books and over 240 papers.

• "Randomized Response: Theory and Techniques" (1988, with A. Chaudhuri), Marcel Dekker.
• "A Calculus for Factorial Arrangements" (1989, with S. Gupta), Springer-Verlag.
• "Fractional Factorial Plans" (1999, with A. Dey), John Wiley & Sons.
• "Probability Matching Priors: Higher Order Asymptotics" (2004, with G.S. Datta), Springer-Verlag.
• "A Modern Theory of Factorial Design" (2006, with C.F. Jeff Wu), Springer-Verlag.

External links

• Indian Institute of Management Calcutta – Faculty Information
• Indian Institute of Management Calcutta – Operations Management Group Faculty
• Indian Institute of Management Calcutta