Presentation of National Awards in Statistics to Prof. Arup Bose and Prof. B.K. Kale

           

In recognition of their outstanding contribution to statistics Prof. Arup Bose, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata and Prof. B.K. Kale, Retired Head of the Deptt. of Statistics, University of Pune were presented National Awards in Statistics by Shri Oscar Fernandes ,  Minister of State for Statistics & Programme Implementation (Independent Charge)  in an award presentation  ceremony held on 23^rd August, 2004 at  Scope Complex, New Delhi.

 

Ministry of Statistics & Programme Implementation has instituted two National Awards in Statistics for outstanding contribution in the field of Statistics.   One award is given to senior statisticians in the memory of Prof. P.V. Sukhatme and the other award is given to young statisticians in honour of Prof. C.R. Rao.   These awards are given in alternate years and each award carries a cash prize of Rs. one lakh.

 

The first National Award in Statistics in the memory of Prof. P. V. Sukhatme was given in 1999-2000 to Prof. J. K. Ghosh, distinguished statistician and former Director, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata followed by the National Award in Statistics, for the young statistician category, given for the year 2000-2001 jointly to Dr. Rahul Mukerjee, Professor, Indian Institute of Management, Kolkata and Dr. Rajeeva Laxman Karandikar, Professor, Indian Statistical Institute, New Delhi for their outstanding contribution to Statistics .  For the year 2001-2002, the National Award in Statistics in the memory of Prof. P.V. Sukhatme was given to Prof. Prem Narain, former Director of Indian Agricultural Statistics Research Institute, New Delhi. 

 

Shri Oscar Fernandes, Minister of State for Statistics & Programme Implementation (Independent Charge) presented the National Awards in Statistics to Professor Arup Bose and Prof. Balvant Keshav Kale for their  outstanding contribution to statistics.  Prof. Bose received the National Award in Statistics for the year 2002-03, for young statisticians category, instituted in honour of Prof.  C.R. Rao and Prof. B.K. Kale received  the National Award in Statistics for the year 2003-2004, for senior statisticians category, instituted in the memory of Prof. P.V. Sukhatme.

Dr. Bose receiving the National Award in Statistics for the year    2002-03, for young statisticians category

 

Dr. Arup Bose has made significant research contributions in diverse areas, including resampling plans, sequential analysis and asymptotics.   He has also made substantial contributions to statistics of diffusion processes, rates of convergence, multinomial selection problems, strong laws, U statistics and M_m estimates.   Dr. Bose’s work in resampling provides a deep and powerful understanding of the subject from the applied as well as the theoretical point of view.   This work has had significant impact on areas such as time series, linear models, general dependent models and nonparametric estimates.

 

Dr. Bose is a dedicated teacher. He is a fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS), USA, which is one of the world’s leading international societies of statistics.   He is also an Editor of the prestigious statistics journal Sankhya.  

           

Professor B.K. Kale has served as Head, Department of Statistics, University of Pune, besides serving as Visiting Professor at the University of Waterloo, Canada. He carried out fundamental research in the areas of statistical inference such as solutions of likelihood equations, analysis of outliers, estimating equations and reliability and life testing. His work on detection of outliers, testing for outliers and masking effects of outliers is considered an important methodological contribution in addition to clarification of theoretical issues.  Prof. Kale has written two books, published 70 papers in reputed statistical journals and guided 15 Ph.D. students.  His book titled “Life Testing and Reliability Estimation” has been translated into Japanese.  Professor Kale is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association.   He was awarded the Principal V.K. Jog Best Teacher Award in February 1993 by the University of Pune.