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|name = Rajeeva Laxman Karandikar<br />
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|birth_date = 11 June 1956<br />
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'''Rajeeva Laxman Karandikar''' (born 1956) <ref>{{cite web|title=Indian Fellow|url=http://insaindia.org/detail.php?id=P06-1412|publisher=[[Indian National Science Academy]]|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20151001004851/http://insaindia.org/detail.php?id=P06-1412|archivedate=1 October 2015|df=mdy-all}}</ref> is an Indian mathematician, statistician and psephologist. He is the director of [[Chennai Mathematical Institute]], Chennai since 2010. He is a Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences and Indian National Science Academy.<br />
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==Academic life==<br />
He received his B.Sc. degree in Mathematics from [[Holkar Science College]], [[University of Indore]], Indore in June 1976 and his M.Stat. from [[Indian Statistical Institute]] in July 1978. He later obtained his PhD degree from ISI, Calcutta in December 1981.<ref>{{MathGenealogy|id=103848|title=Rajeeva L. Karandikar}}</ref> He went for his [[postdoctoral research]] to [[University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill]] to work under [[Gopinath Kallianpur]]. He spent three years as a visiting professor at [[University of North Carolina]] at Chapel Hill and returned to Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi in 1984 as an associate professor. He became a full professor in 1989. In 2006, he moved to Cranes Software International Limited as executive vice president for analytics. He moved to [[Chennai Mathematical Institute]] in 2010.<br />
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==Research==<br />
His research interests include several areas of probability theory, Finitely addtive probability measures, stochastic calculus, martingale problems and Markov processes, Filtering theory, option pricing theory, psephology in the context of Indian elections and cryptography, among others.<ref>{{cite web|last=Karandikar|first=Rajeeva Laxman|title=Curriculum Vitae|url=http://www.cmi.ac.in/~rlk/RajeevaKarandikarCV.pdf|publisher=[[Chennai Mathematical Institute]]}}</ref><br />
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==Other activities==<br />
He has conducted opinion polls for Indian Parliamentary elections and state assembly polls for [[Doordarshan]], [[Aaj Tak/T V Today]], [[CNN-IBN|Network 18]], ''[[Hindustan Times]]'', ''[[Indian Express]]'', etc. Currently he is associated with [[ABP News]]. He has also conducted training programmes on [[Stochastic Calculus]] for [[ICICI Bank]] and other financial organizations. He served as the Executive Vice President for Cranes Software International Limited from 2006 to 2010.<ref>{{cite news|title=A family tradition|url=http://www.newindianexpress.com/education/edex/2013/jan/02/a-family-tradition-439347.html|newspaper=[[The Indian Express]] | date=2 January 2013 | first=Nithya | last=Caleb | accessdate=12 October 2018 }}</ref><br />
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==Books==<br />
* {{cite book|author1=Gopinath Kallianpur|author2=Rajeeva L. Karandikar|title=White Noise Theory of Prediction, Filtering and Smoothing|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Lk4ymaacno8C|date=1 January 1988|publisher=CRC Press|isbn=978-2-88124-685-2}}<br />
* {{cite book|author1=Gopinath Kallianpur|author2=Rajeeva L. Karandikar|title=Introduction to Option Pricing Theory|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7jNxkQEACAAJ|date=6 October 2012|publisher=Birkhäuser Boston|isbn=978-1-4612-6796-6}}<br />
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[[Category:1956 births]]<br />
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[[Category:20th-century Indian mathematicians]]<br />
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[[Category:Indian Statistical Institute alumni]]<br />
[[Category:Recipients of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award in Mathematical Science]]<br />
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