Bhagavatula Lakshmi Surya Prakasa Rao is an Indian statistician. He was born on 6 October 1942 in

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. He completed his B.A. (Honours) course in

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from

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in 1960 and moved 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 C ...

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, where he completed his M.Stat in

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in 1962. He graduated with a Ph.D in

in 1966 from

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under

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. He won the

Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize 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 science, applied or Fundamenta ...

for Science and Technology in Mathematical Sciences in 1982 from the Government of India, the Outstanding Alumni award from the Michigan State University in 1996, and the National Award in memory of P V Sukhatme in 2008 from the Government of India. The Indian Society for Probability and Statistics awarded him the C R Rao Lifetime Achievement Award in 2022. He is an elected Fellow of the

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(1983),

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 Academ ...

(1984),

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 ...

(1992), and

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(1993).

Academic life

He worked at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur at the beginning of his career and later moved to

, New Delhi. He was a Distinguished Scientist and Director of the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata from 1992 to 1995. He also held visiting professorships at the

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and

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. He has held the Jawaharlal Nehru Chair Professorship (2006–08), Dr. Homi J. Bhabha Chair Professorship (2008–12) at the University of Hyderabad, and the Ramanujan Chair Professorship (2012–17) at CR Rao Advanced Institute of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science. Professor Prakasa Rao served as an

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Senior Scientist at the CR Rao Advanced Institute of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science (CR Rao AIMSCS) from 2018 to 2023. He is currently an Emeritus Professor of the Indian Statistical Institute, and an

Honorary Scientist at the CR Rao AIMSCS.

Books

Among the books he has written are: * ''Associated Sequences, Demimartingales and Nonparametric Inference'', Birkhauser, Springer, Basel (2012), ix +272 pp. * ''Statistical Inference for Fractional Diffusion Processes'', John Wiley, Chichester (2010), xii +252 pp. * ''A First Course in Probability and Statistics'', World Scientific, Singapore,(2009). Reprinted by Cambridge University Press India Private Limited, Delhi (2010), xii + 317pp. * ''Statistical Inference for Diffusion Type Processes'', Arnold, London and Oxford University press, New York (1999), xvi+ 349pp. * ''

Semimartingale In probability theory, a real valued stochastic process ''X'' is called a semimartingale if it can be decomposed as the sum of a local martingale and a càdlàg adapted finite-variation process. Semimartingales are "good integrators", forming the l ...

s and Their Statistical Inference'', Chapman and Hall, London and CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida (1999), xi+532 pp. * ''Identifiability in Stochastic Models: Characterization of Probability Distributions'', Academic Press, Cambridge Mass. (1992). xiii + 253 pp. * ''Asymptotic Theory of Statistical Inference'', Wiley, New York (1987). Reprinted by World Publishing Corporation, Beijing, China (1990). xiv + 438 pp. * ''Non-Parametric Functional Estimation'', Academic Press, Orlando, Florida (1983). xiv + 522 pp. * ''Statistical Inference for Stochastic Processes'' (jointly with I. V. Basawa), Academic Press, London (1980). xiii + 433 pp.

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B. L. S. Prakasa Rao
{{DEFAULTSORT:Prakasa Rao, B. L. S. 1942 births Living people 20th-century Indian mathematicians Probability theorists Indian Statistical Institute alumni Academic staff of the Indian Statistical Institute Scientists from Andhra Pradesh People from Kadapa district Indian statisticians Indian scientific authors Writers from Andhra Pradesh Recipients of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award in Mathematical Science