Jayanta Kumar Ghosh

He obtained a B.S. from Presidency College, then affiliated with the University of Calcutta, and subsequently a M.A. and a Ph.D. from the University of Calcutta under the supervision of H. K. Nandi. He started his research career in the early 1960s, studying sequential analysis as a graduate student in the department of statistics at the University of Calcutta. ==Research==

Among his best-known discoveries are the Bahadur–Ghosh–Kiefer representation (with R. R. Bahadur and Jack Kiefer) and the Ghosh–Pratt identity along with John W. Pratt. His research contributions fall within the fields of: • Bayesian inference • Asymptotics • Modeling and model selection • High dimensional data analysis • Nonparametric regression and density estimation • Survival analysis • Statistical genetics ==Awards and honors==

• Elected member of the International Statistical Institute • Advisory editor, Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference • Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics • Fellow of the Indian National Science Academy • Life member and director of the Calcutta Statistical Association • Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences • Japanese Society for Promotion of Sciences Fellowship, 1978 • Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology, 1981 • President, Statistics Section of the Indian Science Congress Association, 1991 • President, International Statistical Institute, 1993 • Mahalanobis Gold Medal of Indian Science Congress Association, 1998 • Invited speaker of the International Congress of Mathematicians, 1998 • P. V. Sukhatme Prize for Statistics, 2000 • Mahalanobis Memorial Lecture, State Science and Technology Congress, W. Bengal, 2003 • D.Sc. (h.c.), B.C. Roy Agricultural University, W. Bengal, India, 2006 • International Indian Statistical Association (IISA) Lifetime Achievement Award, 2010 • Padma Shree (2014) by the Government of India ==Bibliography==