Citizenship United States Fields Statistician Education University of Calcutta | Name Malay Ghosh Doctoral advisor Pranab K. Sen | |
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Born April 15, 1944 (age 79)
Kolkata, India ( 1944-04-15 ) Alma mater University of Calcutta, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Residence Gainesville, Florida, United States Books Bayesian Methods for Finite Population Sampling, Sequential estimation | ||
Institutions University of Florida | ||
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Malay Ghosh (Bengali: মলয় ঘোষ) is an Indian statistician and currently a Distinguished Professor at the University of Florida. He obtained a B.S. in 1962 from the University of Calcutta, and subsequently a M.A. in 1964 from the University of Calcutta. Then he moved to the United States to pursue higher academic studies and obtained his Ph.D. degree in 1969 from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, under the supervision of Pranab K. Sen.
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Career
Ghosh was a faculty member at the Indian Statistical Institute in the 1970s before briefly joining Iowa State University. In 1982 he joined the University of Florida. Ghosh is well known for his research in nonparametric inference, sequential analysis, decision theory, Bayesian statistics and small-area estimation. As a recognition of his seminal contributions, Ghosh served from 1996 to 2001 in the United States Census Advisory Committee. He has co-authored two books and more than 250 research publications and is the advisor of over 40 Ph.D. students, including Nitis Mukhopadhyay, Parthasarathi Lahiri and Gauri Sankar Datta.
Honors
In College Park, Maryland, a conference will be held in May 2014 honoring Professor Ghosh.