Bimal Kumar Roy is a former Director of the

Indian Statistical Institute Indian Statistical Institute (ISI) is a higher education and research institute which is recognized as an Institute of National Importance by the 1959 act of the Indian parliament. It grew out of the Statistical Laboratory set up by Prasanta C ...

. He is a

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from the Cryptology Research Group of the Applied Statistics Unit of ISI,

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. He received a Ph.D. in

Combinatorics Combinatorics is an area of mathematics primarily concerned with counting, both as a means and an end in obtaining results, and certain properties of finite structures. It is closely related to many other areas of mathematics and has many appl ...

and

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in 1982 from the

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under the joint supervision of Ronald C. Mullin and

Paul Jacob Schellenberg Paul may refer to: *Paul (given name), a given name (includes a list of people with that name) * Paul (surname), a list of people People Christianity *Paul the Apostle (AD c.5–c.64/65), also known as Saul of Tarsus or Saint Paul, early Chri ...

. In June 2015 Roy was removed from his post of director of ISI, just one month before the end of his appointment. This action was harshly criticised by the international academic community. Currently, he is working on Combinatorics, and application of Statistics in Cryptology and Design of Experiments. In 2015, Roy was awarded

Padma Shri Padma Shri (IAST: ''padma śrī''), also spelled Padma Shree, is the fourth-highest Indian honours system, civilian award of the Republic of India, after the Bharat Ratna, the Padma Vibhushan and the Padma Bhushan. Instituted on 2 January 1954, ...

, India's fourth-highest civilian honour, recognizing his accomplishments and contribution to education. In 2019, Roy was appointed as the chairperson of the National Statistical Commission, Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation, Government of India.

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Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Indian statisticians Indian cryptographers Ramakrishna Mission schools alumni Recipients of the Padma Shri in literature & education 20th-century Indian mathematicians {{India-scientist-stub

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