Biography

Ajay Jasra was born in Bristol, United Kingdom. He received his BSc (Hons, 1st Class) in Mathematics & Statistics from the University of Exeter 2001 and his MSc in Applied Statistics from the University of Oxford in 2002. He completed his PhD in statistics from Imperial College London in 2005. Prof Jasra held several postdoctoral appointments: University of Oxford (2005), University of Cambridge (2006), Chapman Fellow of Mathematics, Imperial College London (2006-2008) and the Institute of Statistical Mathematics, Japan (2008).

Prof Jasra held his first faulty position at Imperial College London (2008-2011) as assistant professor (lecturer) in the statistics section of the Department of Mathematics. He then moved as Associate Professor (with tenure) at the National University of Singapore (NUS) (2011-2019), in what was then Department of Statistics and Applied Probability (*). At NUS, he held a Deans’ chair associate professor position and was also deputy head of department. From 2019-2024 he was at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) as Professor of Applied Mathematics and Computational Science and Statistics. 2021-2024 Prof Jasra was the Associate Dean for Faculty at the CEMSE division, KAUST. Since January 2024 Prof Jasra is a Presidential Chair Professor of Data Science (with tenure) at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen.

His research interest lies on the interface of modern applied mathematics and statistics, including Monte Carlo, Markov chains and applications in biology and finance.

Prof Jasra has over 100 publications in peer-reviewed journals and conferences. He has over 7000 citations and an H-Index of 33. He has graduated over 15 PhD students and has advised more than 10 postdocs, several of which hold/held faculty positions at: Harvard, Edinburgh, and Warwick. Prof Jasra is the editor in chief of Statistics and Computing. Prof Jasra was the co-editor in chief at the AIMS journal: Foundations of Data Science. He is also associate editor at several journals including Annals of Applied Probability and SIAM/ASA Journal of Uncertainty Quantification. Prof Jasra is currently the chair of the Bernoulli East Asia Pacific Regional Committee and member of the Bernoulli Council.

(*) it is now the Department of Statistics and Data Science. 

Last updated June 2024