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His first post was as a statistician with the [[United Nations]], a post he held from 1954 until 1962. One of his achievements at that post was the founding of the Statistical Center of the [[University of the Philippines]]. He was a visiting Professor and Advisor to the University of Philippines for a number of years and supervised graduate students there. In 1962 Pillai was appointed Professor of Statistics and Mathematics at [[Purdue University]]. Pillai's research was in [[statistics]], in particular in multivariate statistical analysis. Pillai was honoured by being elected a Fellow of the [[American Statistical Association]] and a Fellow of the [[Institute of Mathematical Statistics]]. He was an elected member of the [[International Statistical Institute]]. | His first post was as a statistician with the [[United Nations]], a post he held from 1954 until 1962. One of his achievements at that post was the founding of the Statistical Center of the [[University of the Philippines]]. He was a visiting Professor and Advisor to the University of Philippines for a number of years and supervised graduate students there. In 1962 Pillai was appointed Professor of Statistics and Mathematics at [[Purdue University]]. Pillai's research was in [[statistics]], in particular in multivariate statistical analysis. Pillai was honoured by being elected a Fellow of the [[American Statistical Association]] and a Fellow of the [[Institute of Mathematical Statistics]]. He was an elected member of the [[International Statistical Institute]]. | ||
He was a keen golfer too. | He was a keen [[Golf|golfer]] too. | ||
He died on 5 June 1985 in Lafayette, Indiana, USA. | He died on 5 June 1985 in Lafayette, Indiana, USA. | ||