Arup Bose (born 1 April 1959) is an Indian statistician. He is a Professor of Theoretical Statistics and Mathematics, in

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 ...

Kolkata Kolkata (, or , ; also known as Calcutta , the official name until 2001) is the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal, on the eastern bank of the Hooghly River west of the border with Bangladesh. It is the primary business, comme ...

. Arup Bose obtained his B.Stat, M.Stat and Ph.D (Statistics) degrees from the

where G. Jogesh Babu was his PhD supervisor. He then joined

Purdue University Purdue University is a public land-grant research university in West Lafayette, Indiana, and the flagship campus of the Purdue University system. The university was founded in 1869 after Lafayette businessman John Purdue donated land and mone ...

, USA, as an Assistant Professor. After four years at Purdue, he returned to India in 1991 and joined the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata as an Associate Professor and was promoted to full Professorship in 1995. Most notable areas of his research include, sequential analysis, statistical estimation in diffusion processes, the law of large numbers and central limit theorems, resampling methods, censored data problems, M-estimation, U-statistics, time series, asymptotic properties of estimators and so on. He is a member of Bernoulli Society for Mathematical Statistics and Probability,

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, life member of Calcutta Statistical Association and a life member of

Indian Mathematical Society Indian Mathematical Society (IMS) is the oldest organization in India devoted to the promotion of study and research in mathematics. The Society was founded in April 1907 by V. Ramaswami Aiyar with its headquarters at Pune. The Society started ...

. 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 2004, the highest science award in

India India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the so ...

, in the mathematical sciences category. He was an invited speaker in International Congress of Mathematicians 2010,

Hyderabad Hyderabad ( ; , ) is the capital and largest city of the Indian state of Telangana and the ''de jure'' capital of Andhra Pradesh. It occupies on the Deccan Plateau along the banks of the Musi River, in the northern part of Southern India ...

on the topic of "''Probability and Statistics.''"

Other awards/honours

* Elected Fellow of

Institute of Mathematical Statistics The Institute of Mathematical Statistics is an international professional and scholarly society devoted to the development, dissemination, and application of statistics and probability. The Institute currently has about 4,000 members in all parts o ...

, USA, 2002 * National Award in Statistics in honour of Prof C. R. Rao for the year 2002–03 * Young Researcher Award, International Indian Statistical Association USA 2004 * Fellow of the

Indian Academy of Sciences The Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore was founded by Indian Physicist and Nobel Laureate C. V. Raman, and was registered as a society on 24 April 1934. Inaugurated on 31 July 1934, it began with 65 founding fellows. The first general meet ...

, Bangalore (2006) * Fellow of the

Indian National Science Academy The Indian National Science Academy (INSA) is a national academy in New Delhi for Indian scientists in all branches of science and technology. In August 2019, Dr. Chandrima Shaha was appointed as the president of Indian National Science Acade ...

, New Delhi (2007) * Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, Allahabad (2009) * J. C. Bose Fellow, DST Govt. of India 2009–2013, 2013–2018 * Bernoulli Society Council Member, 2015–2019

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