Jyotiprasad Medhi Award in Mathematical Sciences

Jyotiprasad Medhi Award in Mathematical Sciences 

Jyotiprasad Medhi Award in Mathematical Sciences has been set up in his memory on the occasion of his 100th birth anniversary. It is planned that this award will be given every three years with the first one in 2024 through an application process. Professor Jyotiprasad Medhi was born in Ramdia, Assam on 1 July 1924 and did his matriculation from Dibrugarh Govt. Boys High School in 1940. He then studied at Cotton College, Guwahati for I.Sc. and  B.Sc. (Hons.) in Mathematics. After that, he went to Calcutta University to obtain his M.Sc. in Mathematics. He returned to Guwahati to join Cotton College as Lecturer of Mathematics in 1947 and then joined newly established Gauhati University (GU) as Lecturer of Mathematics in 1948. In 1952, he went to the University of Manchester, UK to pursue M.Sc. in Statistics and from there he went to the University of Paris (Sorbonne), France to obtain his D.Sc. in Probability and Statistics in 1956. He was believed to be the first Assamese to obtain a doctorate in Statistics. He returned to GU in 1956 to continue his teaching and research until his retirement while serving as the Head of the Department of the Statistics Department and also as Dean, Faculty of Sciences and Acting Vice-Chancellor of GU.  He was bestowed with Professor Emeritus status by GU. His research areas were on queueing theory and time series analysis, making fundamental contributions to bulk queueing theory. His textbooks on Stochastic Processes and Queueing Theory are widely used for teaching in many academic institutions around the world. See his Google Scholar page for the list of his publications. Also, see his wiki page for additional information.

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