Siva Ramachandran Athreya (born 1971) is an Indian probability theorist specialising in

statistical physics Statistical physics is a branch of physics that evolved from a foundation of statistical mechanics, which uses methods of probability theory and statistics, and particularly the mathematical tools for dealing with large populations and approxim ...

and

population biology The term population biology has been used with different meanings. In 1971 Edward O. Wilson ''et al''. used the term in the sense of applying mathematical models to population genetics, community ecology, and population dynamics. Alan Hastings ...

. He graduated in mathematics from St Stephen's College, Delhi, went to 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 ...

in Kolkata and Bangalore where he completed his master's, and obtained his PhD degree from the

University of Washington The University of Washington (UW, simply Washington, or informally U-Dub) is a public research university in Seattle, Washington. Founded in 1861, Washington is one of the oldest universities on the West Coast; it was established in Seattl ...

in 1998 under the supervision of Krzysztof Burdzy. He was awarded the

Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology The Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology (SSB) is a science award in India given annually by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) for notable and outstanding research, applied or fundamental, in biology, ...

in 2012, the highest science award in India, in the mathematical sciences category.

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1971 births Living people Indian statisticians 21st-century Indian mathematicians Recipients of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award in Mathematical Science {{India-scientist-stub