Sourav Chatterjee

Sourav Chatterjee

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Sourav Chatterjee Biography

Sourav Chatterjee is an Indian mathematician from Kolkata credited with his work on Stein's method on spin glasses and also the Universality of Lindeberg principle. He specializes in mathematical statistics and probability theory. He is also an academician by profession; a professor of statistics and mathematics who served at various universities. In 2013 he received Loeve Prize in honor of mathematician Michel Loeve (awarded every two years). Sloan Fellowship in 2007 from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Tweedie New Researcher Award in 2008 from the Institute of Mathematical Statistics and Rollo Davidson Prize 2010 are the other major honours received by him. He also received Inaugural Wolfgang Doeblin Prize in Probability in 2012.

 

Sourav completed both graduation and post-graduation in Statistics from Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata. Later he earned a Ph. D from Stanford University in 2005, guided by famous American mathematician Persi Diaconis, known for his unique problem solving methods. He became a visiting professor at University of California, Berkeley and in 2006 he was appointed as Assistant Professor. Three years later he was promoted to Associate Professor of Statistics and Mathematics. After two months, in September 2009 he joined Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University as an Associate Professor of Mathematics.

 

He joined Stanford University as a full professor in 2013, apart from a few other job roles like editor of annuals and publications. He is a Professor of both Statistics and Mathematics at Stanford University. Though he is a permanent resident in US, he holds Indian citizenship. Since 2009, he has delivered lectures at various universities and colleges in Stanford, Berlin, Aalborg, Seoul etc. He has also published Superconcentration and Related Topics – in Springer Monographs in Mathematics in 2014.

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Updated: January 18, 2016

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