Subhra Sankar Dhar is a Professor in Statistics in the newly formed Department of Statistics and Data Science (earlier in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics) at the IIT Kanpur, India since January, 2023. Previously, at the same place, he was an Associate Professor in Statistics (from November, 2018 to December, 2022) and an Assistant Professor in Statistics (from July, 2013 to October, 2018). He received PhD in Statistics from Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata in March, 2012 under supervision of Professor Probal Chaudhuri.
He works on Non-parametric Methods and related topics in Statistics/Applied Probability/Econometrics. As of now, he is an author of 31 journal articles (including 2 in Bernoulli (2023, 2014), 3 in Electronic Journal of Statistics (2026, 2026, 2016), 3 in Scandinavian Journal of Statistics (2020, 2018, 2016), 1 in Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics (2021), 1 in Statistica Sinica (2012), 2 in Theory of Probability and Mathematical Statistics (2024, 2022), 1 in Theory of Probability and Its Applications (2026), 1 in IEEE Transaction on Signal Processing (2019), 1 in Annals of Data Science (2025) and 1 in Nature Scientific Reports (2022)) and 10 book chapters. He has already supervised 7 PhD theses (3 completed, 1 thesis submitted and 3 are ongoing). Presently he serves as an Associate Editor of Statistical Analysis and Data Mining, Sankhya, Series A and Journal of the Indian Society for Probability and Statistics.
He is a recipient of Prof. CR Rao National Award in Statistics awarded by the Ministry of Statistics & Programme Implementation, Government of India in 2019 and P K Kelkar Research Fellowship by the IIT Kanpur for a period of three years in 2020 as recognition of excellent professional contributions at IIT Kanpur. For other details including list of publications, research grants, teaching experiences and other academic activities, have a look at various tabs under Homepage (corner of the top right side; last updated on July 21, 2026).