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Nationality
  
Indian

Name
  
Rajeeva Karandikar


Role
  
Mathematician

Fields
  
Mathematics

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Institutions
  
Chennai Mathematical Institute

Notable awards
  
Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology

Institution
  
Chennai Mathematical Institute

Alma mater
  
Indian Statistical Institute, Devi Ahilya Vishwavidyalaya

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Rajeeva Laxman Karandikar (born 1956) is an Indian mathematician, statistician and psephologist. He is the director of Chennai Mathematical Institute, Chennai since 2010. He is a Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences and Indian National Science Academy.

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Academic life

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He received his B.Sc. degree in Mathematics from Holkar Science College, University of Indore, Indore in June 1976 and his M.Stat. from Indian Statistical Institute in July 1978. He later obtained his PhD degree from ISI, Calcutta in December 1981. He went for his postdoctoral research to University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill to work under Gopinath Kallianpur. He spent three years as a visiting professor at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and returned to Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi in 1984 as an associate professor. He became a full professor in 1989. In 2006, he moved to Cranes Software International Limited as executive vice president for analytics. He moved to Chennai Mathematical Institute in 2010.

Research

His research interests include several areas of probability theory, Filtering theory, option pricing theory, psephology in the context of Indian elections and cryptography, among others.

Other activities

He has conducted opinion polls for Indian Parliamentary elections and state assembly polls for Doordarshan, Aaj Tak/T V Today, Network 18, Hindustan Times, Indian Express, etc. Currently he is associated with ABP News. He has also conducted training programmes on Stochastic Calculus for ICICI Bank and other financial organizations. He served as the Executive Vice President for Cranes Software International Limited from 2006 to 2010.

Books

  • Gopinath Kallianpur; Rajeeva L. Karandikar (January 1, 1988). White Noise Theory of Prediction, Filtering and Smoothing. CRC Press. ISBN 978-2-88124-685-2. 
  • Gopinath Kallianpur; Rajeeva L. Karandikar (October 6, 2012). Introduction to Option Pricing Theory. Birkhäuser Boston. ISBN 978-1-4612-6796-6. 
  • References

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