title: Jayanta Kumar Ghosh
text: # Jayanta Kumar Ghosh
  
  Jayanta Kumar Ghosh (Bengali: জয়ন্ত কুমার ঘোষ, 23 May 1937 – 30 September 2017) was an Indian statistician, an emeritus professor at Indian Statistical Institute and a professor of statistics at Purdue University.
  
  ## Education
  
  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
  