Saralees Nadarajah

Saralees Nadarajah is a British statistician specialising in distribution theory, extreme value theory, nonparametric statistics, and their applications.

Early life and education
Nadarajah was born in Sri Lanka and grew up in Zimbabwe. He obtained his B.Sc. in mathematics from the University of Zimbabwe in Harare. Nadarajah earned his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in statistics from the University of Sheffield in the UK, in 1991 and 1994 respectively.

Career
Nadarajah is a reader at the Department of Mathematics, University of Manchester. He was previously affiliated with the Department of Statistics, University of Nebraska–Lincoln and the University of South Florida.

Nadarajah is the founder of Educate Africa project which he started in 2017.

Research
Nadarajah specializes in statistical fields including extreme value and distribution theory, nonparametric statistics, information theory, and reliability. His expertise also extends to sampling theory, statistical software development, and time series analysis. Nadarajah-Haghighi (UNH) class of distribution is named after him.

Awards and recognition

 * Jacob Wolfowitz Prize (2007)
 * University of Manchester Education Award (2021)

Selected publications

 * Extreme value distributions: theory and applications (2000)
 * Multivariate t-distributions and their applications (2004)
 * Handbook of beta distribution and its applications (2004)
 * A generalized normal distribution (2005)
 * The beta exponential distribution (2006)
 * Lindley distribution and its application (2008)
 * On the inefficiency of Bitcoin (2017)