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| name = Rabindra N. Bhattacharya<br />
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| fields = [[Mathematics]] <br /> [[Statistics]]<br />
| workplaces = [[University of California, Berkeley]] <br /> [[University of Arizona]] <br />[[Indiana University Bloomington|Indiana University]]<br />
| education = [[Presidency College Calcutta|Presidency College]]<br>[[Calcutta University]]<br>[[University of Chicago]]<br />
| doctoral_advisor = [[Patrick Billingsley]]<br />
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| awards = [[Humboldt Prize]] (1993) <br /> [[Guggenheim Fellowship]] (2000)<br />
| thesis_title = Berry-Esseen Bounds for the Multi-Dimensional Central Limit Theorem<br />
| thesis_year = 1967<br />
| website = {{URL|http://math.arizona.edu/~rabi/}}<br />
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'''Rabindra Nath Bhattacharya''' (born January 11, 1937) is a mathematician/statistician at the [[University of Arizona]]. He works in the fields of probability theory and theoretical statistics where he has made fundamental contributions to long-standing problems in both areas. He is married to Bithika Gouri Bhattacharya, with a daughter, a son, and four grandchildren.<br />
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== Early life and education ==<br />
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Bhattacharya was born January 11, 1937, in his ancestral home Porgola, [[Barisal District]], in the present country of Bangladesh. He received his [[B.S.]] and [[M.S.]] degree in 1956 and 1959 respectively from [[Presidency College Calcutta|Presidency College]] and [[Calcutta University]]. He completed his [[Ph.D.]] under direction of [[Patrick Billingsley]] at the [[University of Chicago]] in 1967.<br />
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== Academic career ==<br />
His first academic position was as assistant professor in the Department of Statistics at the [[University of California, Berkeley]]. In 1972, he accepted a position as associate professor in the Department of Mathematics at the [[University of Arizona]] in Tucson, and was promoted to full professor in 1977. In 1982, he moved to [[Indiana University Bloomington|Indiana University]], where he remained until his retirement in 2002. Upon retirement from [[Indiana University]], he was re-appointed as a tenured full professor at the [[University of Arizona]], retiring in May, 2018.<br />
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== Awards and honors ==<br />
Bhattacharya has received many awards and honors, including Special Invited Papers in the [[Annals of Probability]] (1977) and the [[Annals of Applied Probability]] (1999). He is a Fellow of the [[Institute of Mathematical Statistics]] (1978). In 1988, he and [[:de:Manfred Denker|M. Denker]] were invited by the German Mathematical Society to give DMV Seminar, Band 14, published by Birkhäuser as ″Asymptotic Statistics″.<ref name="monograph1">{{cite book |last1=Bhattacharya |first1=Rabi |last2=Denker |first2=Manfred |title=Asymptotic Statistics |date=1990 |publisher=Birkhäuser Basel |isbn=978-3-0348-9964-2 |doi=10.1007/978-3-0348-9254-4 }}</ref> He received the prestigious [[Humboldt Prize]] (1993) and the [[Guggenheim Fellowship]] (2000). He also gave an invited talk, now referred to as a Medallion Lecture<ref>{{cite web |title=List of Repecients of Medallion Lectures |url=https://www.imstat.org/ims-special-lectures/honored-special-lecturers-recipient-list/ |access-date=2018-07-19 |archive-date=2018-07-02 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180702121945/https://www.imstat.org/ims-special-lectures/honored-special-lecturers-recipient-list/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> at the [[Institute of Mathematical Statistics|IMS]] Annual Meeting in Chicago (1996).<br />
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== References ==<br />
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== External links ==<br />
* [http://math.arizona.edu/~rabi/ Bhattacharya's web page at University of Arizona]<br />
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