Malay Ghosh
{{Short description|Statistician and professor}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=June 2023}}
{{Use Indian English|date=June 2023}}
{{Infobox scientist
| name = Malay Ghosh
| image = Malay Ghosh.jpg
| caption = Professor Malay Ghosh
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1944|4|15}}
| birth_place = Calcutta, Bengal Province, British India
| citizenship = United States
| death_date =
| death_place =
| field = Statistics
| work_institution = University of Florida
| alma_mater = University of Calcutta (B.A., M.A.)
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Ph.D.)
| doctoral_advisor = Pranab K. Sen
| doctoral_students =
| known_for =
| prizes =
| footnotes =
}}
Malay Ghosh (Bengali: মলয় ঘোষ) is an Indian statistician and currently a Distinguished Professor at the University of Florida.{{cite web|url=https://archived.stat.ufl.edu/_personnel/usrpages/ghosh.shtml|title=Malay Ghosh|website=archived.stat.ufl.edu}} He obtained a B.S. in 1962 from the University of Calcutta, and subsequently a M.A. in 1964 from the University of Calcutta. Then he moved to the United States to pursue higher academic studies and obtained his Ph.D. degree in 1969 from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, under the supervision of Pranab K. Senhttps://genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=46725
Career
Ghosh was a faculty member at the Indian Statistical Institute in the 1970s before briefly joining Iowa State University.
In 1982 he joined the University of Florida.
Ghosh is well known for his research in nonparametric inference, sequential analysis, decision theory, Bayesian statistics{{cite book | title = Bayesian Methods for Finite Population Sampling |author=Malay Ghosh |author2=Glen Meeden | publisher = Chapman and Hall/CRC | year = 1997 | isbn = 978-0412987717 | page = 296 }} and small-area estimation.RRC09 Recent Advances in Small Area Estimation http://www.uni-trier.de/index.php?id=25359
As a recognition of his seminal contributions, Ghosh served from 1996 to 2001 in the United States Census Advisory Committee.{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov/cac|title=Census Advisory Committees (CAC) |website=The United States Census Bureau}} He has co-authored two books and more than 250 research publications and is the advisor of over 40 Ph.D. students, including Nitis Mukhopadhyay, Parthasarathi Lahiri and Gauri Sankar Datta.{{cite web|url=http://www.genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=46725&fChrono=1 |title=Info |website=The Mathematics Genealogy Project |date= |access-date=2021-03-18}}
Honors
In College Park, Maryland, a conference was held in May 2014 honoring Professor Ghosh.{{cite web|url=http://www.jpsm.umd.edu/ghosh|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130626183149/http://www.jpsm.umd.edu/ghosh|title=Invited Speakers |website=The Joint Program in Survey Methodology |archive-date=26 June 2013}}
- Samuel S. Wilks Memorial Award, 2020. American Statistical Association{{cite web | title=Samuel S. Wilks Memorial Award | website=American Statistical Association (ASA) | url=https://www.amstat.org/ASA/Your-Career/Awards/Samuel-S-Wilks-Memorial-Award.aspx | access-date=2021-03-18}}
- Elected Fellow of Institute of Mathematical Statistics{{cite web |title=IMS Fellows: Honored IMS Fellows |website=Institute of Mathematical Statistics |url=http://imstat.org/awards/honored_fellows.htm |access-date=2013-02-16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161019175343/http://imstat.org/awards/honored_fellows.htm |archive-date=2016-10-19 }}
- Elected Fellow of American Statistical Association, 1984{{cite web|url=https://www.amstat.org//ASA/Your-Career/Awards/ASA-Fellows-list.aspx|title=ASA Fellows List|website=www.amstat.org|access-date=2021-03-18|archive-date=2016-06-16|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160616161612/https://www.amstat.org/awards/fellowslist.cfm}}
- Lukacs Distinguished Professor 1993-1994
References
{{Reflist}}
External links
- [https://archived.stat.ufl.edu/_personnel/usrpages/ghosh.shtml Dr. Ghosh's profile at University of Florida]
{{Authority control}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Ghosh, Malay}}
Category:American statisticians
Category:Presidency University, Kolkata alumni
Category:University of Calcutta alumni
Category:Academic staff of the University of Calcutta
Category:University of Florida faculty
Category:University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill alumni
Category:Fellows of the American Statistical Association