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