Rahul Mukerjee

Biography

Rahul Mukerjee earned his BSc (Hons) in Statistics and MSc (Statistics) from the University of Calcutta, with rank first in first class in both examinations. He obtained his PhD degree (1982) from the University of Calcutta, under the supervision of Professor SK Chatterjee for work on asymmetric factorial designs. He held faculty positions at the University of Calcutta (1980-82) and the Indian Statistical Institute (1982-89) where he was awarded an out of turn promotion to full professorship at the age of thirty three. Since 1989, he is a Professor of Statistics at the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta (in the Higher Academic Grade, since its inception in 2009). Mukerjee held visiting positions in many institutions abroad including Harvard University, University of Michigan, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (Berkeley), Pennsylvania State University, Georgia Institute of Technology, University of Toronto, University of Waterloo, Simon Fraser University, Hiroshima University, Academia Sinica (Taipei), Hong Kong Baptist University and National University of Singapore. He is a member of the National Statistical Commission, Government of India, and an adjunct professor of the Indian Statistical Institute.

Research Interest

Statistics (Design of Experiments, Asymptotic Theory, Survey Sampling)