Ramanathan Gnanadesikan
| Ramanathan Gnanadesikan | |
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| Born |
November 2, 1932 Madras, British India |
| Died | July 6, 2015 (aged 82) Vineyard Haven, Massachusetts, United States |
| Residence | United States |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | Bell Labs, Bellcore, Rutgers |
| Alma mater |
University of Madras University of North Carolina |
| Doctoral advisor | Samarendra Nath Roy |
| Notable awards | 2009 Jerome Sacks Award for Cross-Disciplinary Research |
Ramanathan Gnanadesikan (November 2, 1932 – July 6, 2015) was an Indian statistician, known for his work in multivariate data analysis and leadership in the field. He received his Ph.D. at the University of North Carolina and headed research groups in Statistics at Bell Laboratories and Bellcore. He was a fellow of American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Statistical Association, Institute of Mathematical Statistics and Royal Statistical Society, and Elected Member of the International Statistical Institute. He served as President of Institute of Mathematical Statistics and the International Association for Statistical Computing, the latter of which he helped found.
He was born in Madras (now Chennai, India). His father A. Ramanathan Pillai, was a zoologist and university vice-chancellor. As a 12-year old boy, he sympathized with the Indian Independence movement and spent two weeks at the ashram founded by Mahatma Gandhi. He credited this experience for inspiring a lifelong concern with social justice. He attended the University of Madras from which he received both bachelor's and master's degrees in statistics. The latter of these was based on work done at the Indian Statistical Institute in Calcutta.
At the age of 20, he came to the United States to work on his Ph.D. at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. While there he was involved with the civil rights movement and participated in lunch counter protests. When the first African-American undergraduates were admitted to the university, he helped arrange their accommodation in the International Student House. For his contributions to the university he was elected to the Order of the Golden Fleece.
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