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C. R. Rao


Calyampudi Radhakrishna Rao, FRS known as C R Rao (born 10 September 1920)
           


Calyampudi Radhakrishna Rao, FRS known as C R Rao (born 10 September 1920) is an Indian American mathematician and statistician. He is currently professor emeritus at Penn State University and Research Professor at the University at Buffalo. Rao has been honored by numerous colloquia, honorary degrees, and festschrifts and was awarded the US National Medal of Science in 2002.[2] The American Statistical Association has described him as "a living legend whose work has influenced not just statistics, but has had far reaching implications for fields as varied as economics, genetics, anthropology, geology, national planning, demography, biometry, and medicine."[2] The Times of India listed Rao as one of the top 10 Indian scientists of all time.[3]
 Born
10 September 1920 (age 92)
Hadagali, Kingdom of Mysore,
British India
Residence
India, United Kingdom, United States
Citizenship
United States[1]
Fields
Mathematics and statistics
Institutions
Indian Statistical Institute
Cambridge University
Penn State University
University at Buffalo, The State University of New York
Alma mater
Andhra University
University of Calcutta
King's College, Cambridge
Thesis
Statistical Problems of Biological Classifications (1948)
Doctoral advisor
Ronald Fisher
Doctoral students
K. R. Parthasarathy
Veeravalli S. Varadarajan
S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan
Known for
Cramér–Rao bound
Rao–Blackwell theorem
Orthogonal arrays
Score test
Notable awards
Padma Vibhushan
National Medal of Science
S. S. Bhatnagar Prize
Guy Medal (Silver 1965, Gold 2011)


Location: Tamil Nadu, India

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