Sourav Chatterjee

Sourav Chatterjee
Sourav Chatterjee, 2010
Born	November 1979 (1979-11) (age 37) Kolkata
Nationality	Indian
Fields	Mathematics
Institutions	Stanford University University of California at Berkeley New York University (Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences)
Alma mater	Indian Statistical Institute B.Stat. (2000) M.Stat. (2002) Stanford University PhD. (2005)
Doctoral advisor	Persi Diaconis
Doctoral students	Partha Sarathi Dey

Sourav Chatterjee (born November 1979) is a mathematician, specializing in mathematical statistics and probability theory. Chatterjee is credited with work on Stein's method on spin glasses and also the Universality of Lindeberg principle. For these achievements, he was awarded a Sloan Fellowship in 2007 from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and the Tweedie New Researcher Award in 2008 from the Institute of Mathematical Statistics.

Chatterjee received a Bachelor and Master of Statistics from Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, and a Ph.D from Stanford University in 2005, where he worked under the supervision of Persi Diaconis. Chatterjee joined University of California, Berkeley, as a Visiting Assistant Professor, then received a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in 2006. In July 2009 he became an Associate Professor of Statistics and Mathematics at University of California, Berkeley. Then in September 2009, Chatterjee became an Associate Professor of Mathematics at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University. He spent the academic year 2012-2013 as a Visiting Associate Professor of Mathematics and Statistics at Stanford University. Since autumn 2013 he has joined the faculty of Stanford University as a full professor with joint appointments in the departments of Mathematics and Statistics.