Sourav Chatterjee (born November 1979) is an Indian

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, specializing in

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and

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. Chatterjee is credited with work on the study of fluctuations in random structures, concentration and super-concentration inequalities, Poisson and other non-normal limits, first-passage percolation, Stein's method and

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. He has received a

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in mathematics, Tweedie Award,

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, Doeblin Prize,

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, and

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in mathematical sciences. He was an invited speaker at the

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in 2014.

Career

Chatterjee received a Bachelor and Master of Statistics from

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, Kolkata, and a

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from

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in 2005, where he worked under the supervision of

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. Chatterjee joined

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, as a visiting assistant professor, then received a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in 2006. In July 2009 he became an

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of Statistics and Mathematics at

. Then in September 2009, Chatterjee became an associate professor of mathematics at the

Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences The Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences (commonly known as Courant or CIMS) is the mathematics research school of New York University (NYU), and is among the most prestigious mathematics schools and mathematical sciences research cente ...

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.CV at Berkeley
He spent the academic year 2012–2013 as a visiting associate professor of mathematics and statistics at

. Since autumn 2013 he has joined the faculty of Stanford University as a full professor with joint appointments in the departments of Mathematics and Statistics."About me"
Sourav Chatterjee homepage at Stanford University. He has served as an associate editor of ''Annals of Probability'', ''Annales de l'

Institut Henri Poincaré The Henri Poincaré Institute (or IHP for ''Institut Henri Poincaré'') is a mathematics research institute part of Sorbonne University, in association with the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS). It is located in the 5th arrond ...

'' (B) ''Probabilities et Statistiques'', "Probability Theory and Related Fields". He currently serves as an editor of ''Communications in Mathematical Physics''.

Awards and honours

*2008 Tweedie New Researcher Award, from the Institute of Mathematical Statistics. *Sloan Research Fellowship in Mathematics, 2007–2009 *

2010 *IMS Medallion Lecture, 2012. *Inaugural Wolfgang Doeblin Prize in Probability, 2012 *

2013 *ICM Invited talk, 2014. *

2020

References

External links

Sourav Chatterjee's homepage (Department of Statistics - Stanford University)
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