Preface From the Desk of the Director

1

About the Institute

2

Teaching and Training

2.1 Programmes Offered ….. 29
2.2 Admissions ….. 30
Degree, Diploma and Ph.D. Programmes ….. 30
Enrollment in Degree-Diploma Programmes ….. 31
Short-term Training Programmes ….. 32
2.3 Graduating Students ….. 33
Recipients of Prizes ….. 34
PhD Degrees Awarded by ISI ….. 35
PhD Degrees Awarded by Other Academic Bodies ….. 37
2.4 Placement ….. 38
Higher Education ….. 38
Placement in Industry ….. 38
2.5 International Training Programme- International Statistical Education Centre (ISEC) ….. 40

5

Publications

5.1 Books Published ….. 145
5.2 Journal Publications ….. 146
5.3 Publication in Conference Proceedings ….. 170
5.4 Publication in Book Chapters ….. 177
5.5 Sankhyā, the Official Journal of ISI ….. 181

6

Other Academic Activities
6.1 Patents ….. 184
6.2 Memoranda of Understanding ….. 185
6.3 Museums ….. 186
6.3.1 Geology Museum ….. 186
6.3.2 Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis Memorial Museum \& Archives ….. 188
6.4 Scientific Assignments ….. 192
6.5 Visiting Scientists ….. 205
6.6 Research Associates ….. 221

7

Events

7.1 Convocation ….. 223
Indian Statistical Institute ….. 223
International Statistical Education Centre ….. 225
7.2 Conferences, Symposia, Workshops \& Training Programs ….. 226
7.3 Lectures ….. 234
7.4 Outreach Activities ….. 249

3

Research Activities

3.1 Applied Statistics Division (ASD)
3.2 Biological Sciences Division (BSD)
3.3 Computer and Communication Sciences Division (CCSD)
3.4 Physics and Earth Sciences Division (PESD)
3.5 Social Sciences Division (SSD)
3.6 Statistical Quality Control \& Operations Research Division (SQC\&OR)
3.7 Theoretical Statistics and Mathematics Division (TSMD)
3.8 Library Documentation and Information Sciences Division (LDISD)
39 Computer and Statistical Service Centre (CSSC) Kolkata
3.10 Academic Centres
The Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (CAIML)
The Centre for research on the Economics of Climate, Food, Energy and Environment (CECFEE)
The Center for Soft Computing Research (CSCR)
R.C. Bose Centre for Cryptology \& Security (RCBCCS)
Technology Innovation Hub (TIH)

4

Awards and Recognitions
4.1 Science Academy Fellowships 133
4.2 Awards 134
4.3 Honours \& Recognitions 135
4.4 Memberships 137
4.5 Editorial Assignments 140

8

Administration

8.1 Administrative Services Division
8.2 Office Bearers of the Institute Administration during the year
8.3 List of workers joined/ retired/ voluntarily retired/ resigned/ terminated/ died during the year
8.4 Manpower by Gender, Social Category and Disability Group
8.5 Annual Return on Cases of Sexual Harassment
8.6 Applications received and action taken by the Institute under RTI Act, 2005
8.7 Major Constructions / Repair works taken up by the Institute
8.8 Specific Achievements
8.9 Administrative Training programmes
8.10 Brief description of specific achievements and functions related to the implementation of the Official Language Policy
8.11 Reports on various activities of the Institute

Annual Accounts
91 Balance Sheet 277
92 Income \& Expenditure Account 278
93 Capital Utilization Statement 279

PREFACE

The Annual Report 2023-24 endeavours to summarize the salient research, teaching, training and consultancy activities which the ISI faculty members carried out during the period under review. While we celebrate the achievements of the ISI fraternity, we also miss the doyen of statistical world, Prof. C. R. Rao. He left us forever on $22^{\text {nd }}$ August 2023. He was the right-hand man of Prof. Mahalanobis and the Director of the Institute. The Annual Report of this year devotes a few pages to his memory. I am grateful to my colleague Prof. Probal Chaudhuri for readily agreeing to write this piece.

In keeping with the times, this year we have tried to collect most of the relevant information from the faculty on-line. Since this is the first such attempt, there have been some hiccups. We shall take care and the process will hopefully improve next year. We aim to collect all the relevant information on-line next year.

The compilation of this report requires the support and co-operation of not only the scientific workers but also of the nonscientific workers. They are gratefully acknowledged. Our colleagues at the Reprography and Photography Unit deserve special mention for helping the Editorial Committee with the required photographs from their archives. My sincere thanks are due to our colleagues at the Public Relations Unit for tirelessly burning the mid-night oil for its completion. I am also grateful to my colleagues on the Editorial Board for their advice and support. Inadvertent errors and/or omissions are regretted.

M Z Anis
Chairperson

The Editorial Board

It is my privilege to present before you the Annual Report 2023-2024 of the Indian Statistical Institute. Founded in 1931 on the guiding principle of Unity in Diversity, ISI retains its unique interdisciplinary approach, encouraging close interaction between Statistics and the natural and social sciences for mutual development of Statistics and these sciences. The journey of more than ninety-two years has been eventful and fulfilling. Aspirations remain as high as ever as the Institute adjusts to the demands of the changing times, making significant strides in its academic programs, enhancing engagement with government and industry, and focusing on multidisciplinary research in data driven science.

The year 2023-24 saw the Institute continue to flourish under the able leadership and guidance of Prof Sankar Kumar Pal, the President of the Institute, and Dr. Pronab Sen, the Chairman of the ISI Council. The Institute celebrated the $93^{\text {rd }}$ Foundation Day and conducted the $58^{\text {th }}$ Convocation in December 2023. Professor Trevor J. Hastie, John A. Overdeck Professor of Mathematical Sciences, Professor of Statistics, Stanford University, was the Convocation speaker, while Prof. Nilanjan Chatterjee, an ISI alumnus and Professor at Johns Hopkins University, delivered the Foundation Day lecture.

The faculty and students continue to bring recognition to the Institute through their scientific endeavors. I mention some of the recognitions received by faculty members and scholars of the Institute in the past year. Arup Bose of the Theoretical Statistics and Mathematics Unit, Kolkata received the prestigious International Statistical Institute

Mahalanobis International Award 2023. Arup Bose continues his J C Bose Fellowship for the period January 01, 2024-March 31, 2027. Neena Gupta of Theoretical Statistics and Mathematics Unit, Kolkata and B.S. Daya Sagar of Systems Science and Informatics Unit, Bangalore were elected Fellows of Indian National Science Academy (INSA). Neena Gupta has also received the 2023 TWAS-CAS Young Scientist Award in Mathematics. Sushmita Mitra of the Machine Intelligence Unit, Kolkata and Jaydeb Sarkar of Theoretical Statistics and Mathematics Unit, Bangalore were elected Fellows of the Indian Academy of Sciences (IASC). Utpal Garain of Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Unit, Kolkata was elected as Fellow, Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE). Souvik Roy of Applied Statistics Unit, Kolkata was selected for receiving the Social Choice and Welfare Prize for the year 2024 given by the Society for Social Choice and Welfare, France. Raghunath Chatterjee of Human Genetics Unit, Kolkata received the SERB Science and Technology Award for Research (STAR). Kiranmoy Das of the Interdisciplinary Statistical Research Unit, Kolkata is the recipient of IISA Early Career Award in Statistics and Data Science (Application Track). The Chief Librarian Kishor Chandra Satpathy received the Distinguished Alumni Award from Panjab University Alumni Association. Jaydeb Sarkar was also elected Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, India (NASI). CNRS Postes Rouges Visiting Fellowship 2023 was awarded to Yogeshwaran Dhandapani of the Theoretical Statistics and Mathematics Unit, Bangalore. Kanishka Kacker of the Economics and Planning Unit, Delhi received the 2023 EfD Peter Berck best discussion

The faculty and students continue to bring recognition to the Institute through their scientific endeavors. Much to our delight, our alumnus, Sourav Chatterjee, Professor of Statistics and Mathematics, Stanford University was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. Another alumnus, Apoorva Khare, currently Professor at IISc Bangalore, was conferred the SS Bhatnagar Award.
After many years, the Institute is on the verge of launching its third Bachelors program, namely Bachelors of Statistical Data Science (BSDS). In line with the recommendation of the National Education Policy, BSDS is planned to be a fouryear program with an exit option after three years, and an option for a Master’s degree after fifth year of studies.

paper award. Soham Sarkar of the Theoretical Statistics and Mathematics Unit, Delhi received the Inspire Faculty Fellowship for five years starting from September 2023. Abhiroop Mukhopadhyay of the Economics and Planning Unit was elected as a visiting fellow of Institute of Advanced Study, Princeton. Prof. Sankar Kumar Pal, President of the Institute and Emeritus Professor, received the Distinguished Alumni Award 2023 from Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda Centenary College, Calcutta and the $30^{\text {th }}$ Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis Memorial Lecture Award, at the $30^{\text {th }}$ West Bengal State Science \& Technology Congress, Govt. of West Bengal in 2023. Prof. Partha P. Majumder has received the INSA Distinguished Lecture Fellowship (2023). Shri Uddalok Sarkar, JRF of the Advanced Computing and Microelectronic Unit (ACMU) received the prestigious Google PhD Fellowship in 2023. Snehinh Sen, a student of M. Math, secured first position in the CSIR-UGC NET. Students of ISI have performed excellently in the Madhava Mathematics Competition 2024. Much to our delight, our alumnus, Sourav Chatterjee, Professor of Statistics and Mathematics, Stanford University was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. Another alumnus, Apoorva Khare, currently Professor at IISc Bangalore, was conferred the SS Bhatnagar Award. Many other faculty members and students of the Institute have received various recognitions. The full list is included in a part of this Annual Report. We are proud of the achievements of all of them.

As in every year, many workshops, training programs and conferences were conducted round the year. Institute faculty members, scholars and students have published more than

520 journal articles, besides many more in conferences and as book chapters. The institute faculty members have carried out many national and international assignments, including sponsored projects. They are regularly invited to various Universities around the world for research collaborations and for giving lectures and seminars. These are listed in different parts of this report. Several outreach programs were conducted by the Institute in various institutions, including schools and colleges, for popularization of Statistics, Mathematics and the other sciences.

After many years, the Institute is on the verge of launching its third Bachelors program, namely Bachelors of Statistical Data Science (BSDS). In line with the recommendation of the National Education Policy, BSDS is planned to be a four-year program with an exit option after three years, and an option for a Master’s degree after fifth year of studies. Other recently launched programs, like the fully online Post Graduate Diploma in Applied Statistics, are progressing well. The two-year long tri-Institute Post Graduate Diploma in Business Analytics program, organized jointly by ISI, IIT Kharagpur and IIM Calcutta continues to garner deep interest from the students’ community, with the placement record remaining very strong. The $4^{\text {th }}$ ISI Review Committee had submitted its recommendations to the Ministry of Statistics and Program Implementation (MoSPI) in 2022. The administrative ministry has forwarded these to the Council of the Institute for its views. The Council is presently reviewing these recommendations.

The construction works in R. C. Bose Centre for Cryptology and Security and the ISI North East Centre in the North East are now in advanced stages. New academic buildings are also coming up in the Headquarters in Kolkata and the Centre in Bengaluru.

The Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (CAIML) remains engaged in carrying out research in several niche areas of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML). One of these areas addresses advanced ML techniques for cryptanalysis for the Defence Research and Development Organisation. The Centre for research on the Economics of Climate, Food, Energy and Environment (CECFEE) in ISI Delhi has successfully taken up several studies related to the Environment and Climate, and was successful in attracting significant grants, including foreign grants. Other cells like the Cell for Collaboration with Academia, Industry and R\&D labs (CCAIR), the PhD-DSc Cell, the Faculty Recruitment Cell and the Placement Cell have provided exemplary administrative support. Efforts are ongoing to streamline the faculty recruitment process. Several rounds of recruitment including Special Drives have been or are being launched. The Institute has signed/ extended several MoUs with other organizations from the government, industry and academia.

I remain grateful to the President of the Institute, Prof. Sankar K. Pal, the Chairman of the ISI Council, Dr. Pronab Sen, and all members of the ISI Council for their leadership and guidance, which has helped ISI in all its activities in 2023-2024. Thanks are due to the Secretary, Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation and all officials of the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation, Government of India for their strong support. I thank all the scientific and non-scientific workers, students and all well-wishers of the Institute for extending their cooperation for the all-round development of the Institute.

Sanhagholhy

Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay

Chapter

ABOUT THE INSTITUTE

The Indian Statistical Institute, an Institute of National Importance, is a premier and internationally acclaimed research, teaching and training institute.

Founder: Professor Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis

Mission:

• To promote the study and dissemination of knowledge of Statistics, to develop statistical theory and methods, and their use in research and practical applications at large, with special reference to problems of planning for national development and social welfare;
• To undertake research in various fields of natural and social sciences with a view to the mutual development of Statistics and these sciences;
• To provide for, and undertake, the collection of information, investigations, projects, and operational research for purposes of planning and the improvement of efficiency of management and production; and
• To undertake any other ancillary activities in fulfillment of the objectives stated above.

1.1 LOCATIONS

Campus Locations and Outlying SQC\&OR Units

The Indian Statistical Institute was formally established in 1931. The Institute has its headquarters in Baranagar, Kolkata. It has four other centres at Delhi, Bangalore, Chennai and Tezpur, and a branch at Giridih. The R.C. Bose Centre for Cryptology and Security was created in 2014 and is also located in Kolkata. The various locations are shown on a map of India along with a separate list of units at each campus.

At Kolkata, West Bengal

I) The Head Quarters of ISI

The headquarters of the Institute, which shifted to its present campus in 1953, has a lush green sprawling campus in the northern fringe of the Kolkata metropolis. It has 19 academic units, a large and vibrant library, a computer and statistical services centre, two museums, two centres of excellence, two Associate Institution of ISI and a Technology Hub. They are listed below: –

1. Advanced Computing and Microelectronics Unit (ACMU)
2. Agricultural and Ecological Research Unit (AERU)
3. Applied Statistics Unit (ASU)
4. Biological Anthropology Unit (BAU)
5. Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Unit (CVPRU)
6. Economic Research Unit (ERU)
7. Electronics and Communication Sciences Unit (ECSU)
8. Geological Studies Unit (GSU) and the Geology Museum
9. Human Genetics Unit (HGU)

10. Interdisciplinary Statistical Research Unit (ISRU)

11. International Statistical Education Centre (An Associate Institution of ISI)
12. Linguistic Research Unit (LRU)
13. Machine Intelligence Unit (MIU)
14. Physics and Applied Mathematics Unit (PAMU)
15. Population Studies Unit (PSU)
16. Psychology Research Unit (PRU)
17. Sampling and Official Statistics Unit (SOSU)
18. Sociological Research Unit (SRU)
19. Statistical Quality Control \& Operations Research Unit (SQC\&ORU)
20. Stat-Math Unit (SMU)
21. Library and the PCM Memorial Museum and Archives (PCMMMA)
22. Center for Soft Computing Research (CSCR):

A National Facility (An Associate Institution of ISI)
23. Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (CAIML)
24. Computer and Statistical Services Centre (CSSC)
25. Technology Innovation Hub (TIH)

The TIH centre was established on March 16, 2021 pursuant to the decision of the ISI Council in its meeting held on December 22, 2020

II) The RC Bose Centre

The R.C. Bose Centre for Cryptology and Security at Kolkata was created in 2014 as a national hub for cryptographic requirements. This Centre has only one Unit at present.

• Cryptology and Security Research Unit (CSRU)
  

The Bangalore Centre, Karnataka

The Bangalore Centre was conceived by Professor P.C. Mahalanobis during the 1960s. The Statistical Quality Control Unit had been functioning in Bangalore since 1956 and the Documentation Research and Training Centre was set up in 1962. The activities of the Bangalore Centre started in September 1978 in a rented building and the various units moved to the present campus in May 1985. The Bangalore Centre was formally declared as a Centre of ISI in September 1996. The present campus, full of eucalyptus trees, is located on Mysore Road on the outskirts of the city and is close to the Bangalore University campus. Presently the Centre has six units and a library, namely –

• Applied Statistics Unit (ASU)
• Documentation Research and Training Centre (DRTC)
• Economic Analysis Unit (EAU)
• Statistical Quality Control \& Operations Research Unit (SQC\&ORU)
• Stat-Math Unit (SMU)
• Systems Science and Informatics Unit (SSIU)
• Library
  

The Statistical Quality Control \& Operations Research (SQC \& OR) Units

The Institute has a network of seven Statistical Quality Control \& Operations Research (SQC\&OR) units spread across the country. In addition to the units functioning from its headquarters at Kolkata and from other centres in Delhi, Bengaluru and Chennai, the other three units are located in-

• Hyderabad, Telangana
• Mumbai, Maharashtra
• Pune, Maharashtra

The Delhi Centre, Delhi

The Delhi Centre was established in 1974 within the Planning Commission premises. It shifted to its present campus in 1975. It is located in a part of South Delhi known as the Qutub Institutional Area. The Centre is composed of the following:

• Economics and Planning Unit (EPU)
• Stat-Math Unit (SMU)
• Statistical Quality Control \& Operations Research Unit (SQC\&ORU)
• Library
• Centre for research on the Economics of Climate, Food, Energy and Environment (CECFEE)

The CECFEE centre was established on July 24, 2020 pursuant to the decision of the ISI Council in its meeting held on June 09, 2020.

The Chennai Centre, Tamil Nadu

The Chennai Centre came into existence in 2008 and is presently located at 37, Nelson Manickam Road (First Floor), Aminjikarai, Chennai. The Centre has three units and a library, namely –

• Applied Statistics Unit (ASU)
• Computer Science Unit (CSU)
• Statistical Quality Control \& Operations Research Unit (SQC\&ORU)
• Library

The North-East Centre at Tezpur, Assam

The North-East Centre at Tezpur was established in 2011 and is presently located at Punioni, Solmara which is north of Tezpur and is close to Tezpur University, and the Defence Research Laboratory (DRL) of the Defence Research \& Development Organization (DRDO). The Centre has the following three units and a library-

• Applied and Official Statistics Unit (AOSU)
• Socio-Economic Research Unit (SERU)
• Theoretical and Applied Sciences Unit (TASU)
• Library

The Giridih Branch, Jharkhand

The Giridih branch was started in 1931 and is situated at the heart of Giridih town. The sprawling campus of the Giridih branch includes three land parcels. Besides the office buildings, Giridih has two large agricultural farms adjacent to the river Ushri. The farms with different land situations (high, mid and low) are ideal for conducting agricultural experiments and have well-equipped laboratories as well. The Giridih branch has two operational units functioning under the respective units in Kolkata-

• Agricultural \& Ecological Research Unit (AERU)
• Sociological Research Unit (SRU)

1.2 ORGANIZATIONAL CHART

Academic Divisions

1. Applied Statistics Division (ASD)

• Applied and Official Statistics Unit (AOSU), NorthEast Centre, Tezpur
• Applied Statistics Unit (ASU), Bangalore
• Applied Statistics Unit (ASU), Chennai
• Applied Statistics Unit (ASU), Kolkata
• Interdisciplinary Statistical Research Unit (ISRU), Kolkata

1. Biological Sciences Division (BSD)

• Agricultural \& Ecological Research Unit (AERU), Kolkata \& Giridih
• Biological Anthropology Unit (BAU), Kolkata
• Human Genetics Unit (HGU), Kolkata

1. Computer and Communications Sciences Division (CCSD)

• Advanced Computing and Microelectronics Unit (ACMU), Kolkata
• Computer Science Unit (CSU), Chennai
• Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Unit (CVPRU), Kolkata
• Cryptology and Security Research Unit (CSRU), Kolkata
• Documentation Research and Training Centre (DRTC), Bangalore
• Electronics and Communication Sciences Unit (ECSU), Kolkata
• Machine Intelligence Unit (MIU), Kolkata
• Systems Science and Informatics Unit (SSIU), Bangalore

1. Library, Documentation and Information Sciences Division (LDISD)

• Library, Bangalore
• Library, Chennai
• Library, Delhi
• Library, Kolkata
• Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis Memorial Museum \& Archives
• Library, North-East Centre, Tezpur

5. Physics and Earth Sciences Division (PESD)

• Geological Studies Unit (GSU), Kolkata
• Geological Museum
• Physics and Applied Mathematics Unit (PAMU), Kolkata
• Theoretical and Applied Sciences Unit (TASU), North-East Centre, Tezpur

6. Social Sciences Division (SSD)

• Economic Analysis Unit (EAU), Bangalore
• Economics and Planning Unit (EPU), Delhi
• Economic Research Unit (ERU), Kolkata
• Linguistic Research Unit (LRU), Kolkata
• Population Studies Unit (PSU), Kolkata
• Psychology Research Unit (PRU), Kolkata
• Sampling and Official Statistics Unit (SOSU), Kolkata
• Socio-Economic Research Unit (SERU), NorthEast Centre, Tezpur
• Sociological Research Unit (SRU), Kolkata \& Giridih

7. Statistical Quality Control and Operations Research Division (SQCORD)

• SQC \& OR Unit, Bangalore
• SQC \& OR Unit, Chennai
• SQC \& OR Unit, Delhi
• SQC \& OR Unit, Hyderabad
• SQC \& OR Unit, Kolkata
• SQC \& OR Unit, Mumbai
• SQC \& OR Unit, Pune

8. Theoretical Statistics and Mathematics Division (TSMD)

• Theoretical Statistics and Mathematics Unit (SMU), Bangalore
• Theoretical Statistics and Mathematics Unit (SMU), Delhi
• Theoretical Statistics and Mathematics Unit (SMU), Kolkata

Teaching and Training

1. Dean’s Office
2. Placement Cell

Associate Institutions

1. Center for Soft Computing Research (CSCR): A National Facility, Kolkata
2. International Statistical Education Centre (ISEC), Kolkata

Centres of Excellence

1. Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (CAIML)
2. Centre for Research on the Economics of Climate, Food, Energy and Environment (CECFEE)

Technology Innovations Hub (TIH)

Computer and Statistical Service Centre (CSSC), Kolkata

Administrative Services Division

1. Director’s Office

• Cell for Co-operation with Academia, Industry \& Research labs (CCAIR)
• Faculty Recruitment Cell
• PhD/ DSc Cell
• ST/SC/OBC Liaison Cell

2. CE (A\&F)’s Office

• Accounts Section
• Audio Visual Unit
• Canteen
• Cash Unit
• Central Despatch Unit
• Council Section
• Electrical Maintenance Unit
• Engineering Unit
• Estate Office
• Guest House
• Hostels
• House Building Advance Cell
• Human Resource Development Unit
• Import/ Travel Cell
• Internal Audit Cell
• Legal Cell
• Medical Expenses Reimbursement Unit
• Medical Welfare Unit
• Official Language Cell
• Personnel Unit
• Provident Fund Unit
• Public Relations Unit
• Printing and Publication Unit
• Retirement Benefit Cell
• RTI, Grievance, Complain Cell
• Security Unit
• Stores and Purchase Unit
• Telephone Unit
• Transport Unit

1.3 ISI: Course of Important Events

Snapshots!

1931 – 1980:

• PC Mahalanobis establishes ISI in 1931
• First international journal of Statistics in India, Sankhya, foreword by Rabindranath Tagore in 1933
• Path-breaking discoveries by ISI scientists: Mahalanobis distance, large scale sample survey method – PC Mahalanobis
  Cramer-Rao Bound, Rao-Blackwell Theorem CR Rao
  BCH Error-correcting codes – RC Bose Theory of large deviations – SRS Varadhan Bahadur Efficiency and Basu’s Theorem in Statistics
• National Sample Survey (NSS) was conceived for the collection of socio-economic data in 1950
• UNESCO empowers ISI to train statisticians of developing countries – International Statistical Education Centre (ISEC) established in 1950
• Second Five-Year Plan drafted in 1954
• ISI designs the first analog computer in India in 1954
• ISI imports and instal’s the first digital computer in India, HEC-2M, in 1955
• Dinosaur fossil, Barapasaurus tagorei, discovered by ISI geologists in 1957
• ISI was recognized as an Institute of National Importance by a Central Act in 1959
• First digital computer (ISI-JU-1) built and commissioned (1961-1966)
• Delhi Centre of ISI established in 1974
• Bangalore Centre of ISI established in 1978

$1981-2004$ :

• M. Tech Program in Computer Science (M.Tech (CS)) started in 1981.
• Nodal Centre for a $5^{\text {th }}$ Generation KnowledgeBased Computer Systems (FGCS/ KBCS) in the fields of Pattern Recognition, Computer Vision, Image Processing and Artificial Intelligence established in 1987
• M. Tech Program in Quality, Reliability \& Operations Research (M.Tech (QROR)) started in 1989.
• M. S. Program in Quantitative Economics (MS (QE)) started in 1996.
• Computer-based dictionary in the Indian Language (Bangla) developed for use by blind persons in 1996
• Bachelor’s Program in Mathematics (B.Math) started in 2000
• Master’s Program in Mathematics (M.Math) started in 2003

2005 – till date :

• Introduction of Soft Computing in India and establishment of the first Centre for Soft Computing Research in Asia in 2005
• Outreach program: North-East in 2005
• 29* June declared as the National Statistics Day during the Platinum Jubilee celebrations at ISI by the then Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh in 2006
• Chennai Centre of ISI established in 2008
• M. S. Program in Library \& Information Science [MS (LIS)] started in 2008
• Adoption of IISC faculty pay scale replacing UGC pay scale in 2009
• Pioneering work in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, Bioinformatics, Computational Genetics, Cryptology, Indian Language Technologies, Population Genomics, Soft Computing Technology
• The Center of Soft Computing Research has been declared an “Associate Institution” of ISI in 2010
• North-east Centre of ISI established for the development of the region in 2011
• M. S. Program in Quality Management Science [MS (QMS)] started in 2014.
• RG Rose Centre for Cryptology and Security established in 2014
• Teaching and training in Official Statistics \& Policy Research initiated
• Seminal contributions in Game theory, Algebraic Geometry, Poverty and Inequality measures, Disease Genetics, Granular Computing
• A tri-institute Post-Graduate Program in Business Analytics (PGDBA) started in 2015.
• Discovery of Shringasaurus indicus in 2017
• M. Tech Program in Cryptology \& Security [M. Tech (CrS)] started in 2018.
• Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning established in 2019
• Computational and experimental biology research; cancer, autoimmune and neuro-degenerative diseases
• Centre for Research on the Economics of Climate, Food, Energy and Environment, Delhi recognized as Centre and Technology Innovation Hub, Kolkata established in 2020
• Technology Innovation Hub established in 2020
• Coal Index developed and adopted by Coal Ministry
• Development of an Integrated Solution for Automatic Assessment of Autism using visual attention, facial expression and vocal emotion cues.
• Development of a computer vision-based vehicle type and vehicle number detection system
• Development of National Mineral Index

Thinking ahead of times!

Academic programmes introduced in ISI

• The Institute began offering its internationally-acclaimed UG and PG programmes in Statistics, (B.Stat. and M.Stat.) in 1961, empowered by The Indian Statistical Institute Act of 1959 to award degrees.
• This Act was amended by the Parliament of India in 1995 to empower the Institute to award Degrees/Diplomas not only in Statistics but also in Mathematics, Quantitative Economics, Computer Science and other subjects related to Statistics as may be determined by the Institute from time to time.
• ISI also started awarding Ph.D. degrees in the areas of Mathematics, Quantitative Economics, Computer Science as well as Quality, Reliability and Operations Research, in addition to the original discipline, namely, Statistics.
• Several degree/diploma programmes have been introduced subsequently. A timeline of the innovative programmes introduced in ISI are as follows –
  

PGDSMA program

*The PGDSMA was initially introduced in 2011-12 as PG Diploma in Statistical Methods with Applications at the NorthEast Centre and later renamed in 2013. The programme has been running successfully at Tezpur, with $50 \%$ of its seats reserved for candidates domiciled in the Northeast region. Since 2019, this programme is also being offered simultaneously at the Chennai centre for candidates from all over India.

1.4 A Brief History of the Institute

In the 1920’s, Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis, then a Professor of Physics at Presidency College, Calcutta conducted several studies employing statistical methods with results that vindicated his ideas about the efficacy and possibilities of the emerging science of Statistics.

The Indian Statistical Institute (ISI) was formally established on 17 December 1931 in a meeting presided by Sir R.N. Mukherjee, the first President of the Institute, and Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis was appointed as the Honorary Secretary.

On April 28, 1932, the Indian Statistical Institute was registered as a non-government and non-profit distributing learned society under the Societies Registration Act No. XXI of 1860. The Institute is now registered under the West Bengal Societies Registration Act XXVI of 1961, as amended in 1964.

The Institute started functioning initially from a room of the then Presidency College (now Presidency University) with enduring support from several distinguished personalities
and devoted scholars in Calcutta. Over the first two decades, which turned out to be a glorious chapter in the annals of Indian science and institution building, the ISI embarked upon a series of pioneering programmes involving the application of Statistics in search of solution to the urgent and live problems of the country. Such programmes included innovative projects on sample surveys of yield and land utilization of crops, socio-economic after-effects of the Bengal famine and problems of flood research. These innovations and methodological research have since become classics in Statistics. At the same time, the training of scientific personnel began to grow. This also encouraged high-level research and brought into focus the need for publication of the research results, for which Sankhy, the first international journal of Statistics in the country came into being in 1933.

When India became independent, the Institute played a pivotal role in the task of nation-building through the brilliant choice of the area of surveys, which were socially and nationally relevant. The patronage and invaluable contribution of Sir Ronald A. Fisher played an important role. Led by Professor Mahalanobis and a very capable group of younger statisticians including R.C. Bose, S.N. Roy and C.R. Rao, the Institute was poised to take on the larger role. In 1954 Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, the then

Prime Minister of India, entrusted Professor Mahalanobis and ISI with the responsibility of preparing the draft Second Five-Year Plan for the country. The draft submitted by Professor Mahalanobis and the planning models formulated by him and his colleagues have since been regarded as major contributions to economic planning in India. The formal recognition came in December 1959, when the then Prime Minister, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru himself piloted the enactment of the Indian Statistical Institute Act of 1959 in the Parliament. This Act designated ISI as an ‘Institution of National Importance’. The activities of ISI steadily grew, existing interests became more broad-based and a number of science units were created in the interest of live interaction between Statistics and Natural and Social Sciences. Empowered by the Act to award degrees, the Institute started the B. Stat. and M. Stat. programs. An excellent library was established at

Kolkata and the Documentation Research and Training Centre began functioning in Bangalore. Other developments in infrastructure also began.

The Indian Statistical Institute Act of 1959 was amended by the Parliament in 1995 to empowering the Institute to award Degrees/Diplomas not only in Statistics, but also in Mathematics, Quantitative Economics, Computer Science and such other subjects related to Statistics as may be determined by the Institute from time to time. Several degree/diploma programmes have been introduced subsequently, The detailed list is given on page 29.

On December 24, 2006, during the inauguration of the Platinum Jubilee celebrations of the Institute (200607), Dr. Manmohan Singh, the then Prime Minister of India declared the birth anniversary (29 ${ }^{\text {th }}$ June) of Prof. P.C. Mahalanobis as the National Statistics Day.

Visitors:

The Institute, since its formative period till present times, has had many eminent visitors, some of whom were Nobel Laureates. Besides Ronald A. Fisher, J.B.S. Haldane and Walter A. Shewhart, the luminaries included Frederic and Irene Curie, Neils Bohr, A.N. Kolmogorov, P.M.S. Blackett, J.D. Bernal, Joan Robinson, William Edwards Deming, Joseph M. Juran, Genichi Taguchi and George Akerlof (Nobel prize in economics, 2001). Incidentally, George Akerlof was a visiting professor at ISI during 1967-68. During recent times, the visit of Amartya K. Sen, Robert Aumann, Lotfi A. Zadeh, Roger Penrose, Joseph E. Stiglitz, Sir James A. Mirrlees, Eric Maskin, Ei-ichi Negishi, Ada Yonath, David Jonathan Gross, S.R.S. Varadhan (Winner of Abel Prize, 2007 for his contributions to probability theory and an alumnus of the institute), Leslie Gabriel Valiant, Meghnad Desai and Trevor Hastie may be specially mentioned. The Institute is proud to have C.R. Rao, who was among the world leaders in statistical science, in its list of illustrious alumni.

Niels Bohr with P.C. Mahalanobis at Indian Statistical Instutute on $16^{\text {th }}$ January, 1960.

PCM explaining an exhibit to Mr. Chivu Stoica, Romanian Prime Minister (centre), at the Museum on $21^{\text {st }}$ March, 1958.

Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis and Nirmal Kumari Mahalanobis with the King and Queen of Nepal at Amrapali on $2^{\text {nd }}$ December, 1955

1.5 C.R. Rao: In Memoriam

C.R. Rao was born on $10^{\text {th }}$ September, 1920, in Hoovina Hadagali, now a small town in Karnataka, but originally in the Madras Province of British India. His father CD Naidu was an inspector of police and his mother Lakshikanthamma was a housewife. Rao was the $8^{\text {th }}$ child of his parents and following a general custom in South India, as mentioned by Rao himself in his autobiography, he was named Radhakrishna after Lord Krishna, who, according to the mythology, was the $8^{\text {th }}$ child of his parents.

Rao graduated with a degree in Mathematics from Andhra University in 1940, but failed to obtain a scholarship to do research in the same university because his application came in late. He then came to Kolkata to appear for an interview for the position of a mathematician at the army survey unit, and was not selected for that job either. Later, when Calcutta University started a Master’s degree programme in Statistics in 1941, he joined that as a student. He passed the MA degree examination in 1943 with a first class and secured the first rank. Rao was one of the first five students, who graduated from Calcutta University with a Master’s degree in Statistics.

In one of his autobiographical essays, Rao gave an entertaining description of that postgraduate degree programme that is worth quoting here. “None of the teachers had any experience in teaching Statistics and, further, they were as ignorant as the students in some areas of Statistics. As there were no textbooks on Statistics, the teachers had to learn by reading original papers and then teach. The courses given in the first two years benefitted the faculty as well as the students.”

Rao joined Indian Statistical Institute (ISI) as a statistical apprentice in 1943 and decided to settle down in the city of Kolkata. He started teaching soon after joining the institute, and it was in the course of his interactions with the students that he co-invented his famous Cramér-Rao Lower Bound and Rao-Blackwell Theorem.

At ISI, one of Rao’s several responsibilities was the analysis of anthropometric data on different castes and tribes collected during the decennial census of the Indian population in 1941. In 1946, J.C. Trevor, a Cambridge University anthropologist, requested ISI to depute a scholar, who would analyse some anthropometric data collected by the Cambridge University Anthropological Museum. Rao was deputed, and he arrived in England in August 1946. According to Rao, he sailed for England by a steamship named Andes that was carrying mostly Italian prisoners of the Second World War from Mumbai to Naples. The Italian soldiers were captured in Africa and detained in India.

Soon after arriving in Cambridge, Rao took admission as a research scholar at King’s College. This was in addition to Rao’s assignment at the Anthropological Museum at Duckworth Laboratory at Cambridge. Ronald Fisher was the Balfour Professor of Genetics at Cambridge at that time. Rao requested Fisher, whom he met in 1944, to accept him as a PhD student. Fisher agreed and suggested that he should work in the genetics laboratory to gain experience with breeding of mice for linkage studies. On the other hand, Rao’s assignment at the Anthropological Museum involved analysis of measurements taken of skeletal materials excavated by a British expedition in the ancient graves in Jebel Moya in North Africa.

The general theme of Rao’s PhD research was discriminant analysis using multivariate data, and it was deeply connected with Fisher’s work on discriminant analysis. Towards the end of his two-year-long stay at Cambridge, Rao met H.E. Daniels, who asked him to submit a discussion paper to the Royal Statistical Society based on his PhD research. The paper that was submitted by Rao was titled “The Utilization of Multiple Measurements in Problems of Biological Classification”. Rao’s paper was accepted for a discussion at the Royal Statistical Society, and it was read before the Research Section of the society in 1948. It was also published in the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series B (Methodological) in the same year.

Rao extended Fisher’s discriminant analysis for more than two populations. He also established the Bayes risk optimality of Fisher’s linear discriminant function for multivariate Gaussian populations. Another significant part of Rao’s paper is the development of a graphical tool for visual representation of multivariate populations by projecting them into some appropriate lower dimensional spaces so that observations from different populations cluster into groups of similar populations.

Rao’s 1948 paper is a fundamental contribution in discriminant analysis that has influenced several generations of research in multivariate statistics. While discussing

his PhD research, Rao once wrote, “For my PhD thesis, I wanted a theoretical topic. I asked Fisher to suggest some problem on which I could work. He said: ‘Problem must be yours and I shall help you if I can’. I wrote my PhD thesis on classification problems extending Fisher’s work on the discriminant function to more than two populations, which arose in my work at the museum. I did not take much help from Fisher. Finally, when I showed him the thesis, he said, ‘The problem was worth investigating’.”
After returning to India from Cambridge in the August of 1948, Rao joined the Indian Statistical Institute as a professor, when he was only 28 years old. At that time, ISI was getting reorganised as the Government of India agreed to give a recurring grant to support the research and training activities of the Institute. Prior to this government grant, ISI depended mainly on money earned through project work involving large scale sample surveys. Rao was appointed the Head of the Research and Training School of ISI, and he created an internationally renowned teaching and research programme in statistics. After the death of Mahalanobis, Rao was made the Director and Secretary of ISI, a designation which Mahalanobis had as the Chief of the Institute. He gave up that position in 1976 and was appointed as the Jawaharlal Nehru Professor of ISI. Rao gave up this professorship and retired from ISI in 1984. In 1985, he became a National Professor.

Other distinguished positions that C.R. Rao held included Distinguished Professorship at University of Pittsburgh and the Eberly Professorship at Pennsylvania State University, both in the US. In 2002, Rao established the C.R. Rao Advanced Institute of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science in Hyderabad.

Rao’s contributions to statistical theory and applications have become part of the undergraduate and postgraduate

curricula in statistics, econometrics, electrical engineering, and many other disciplines at most universities worldwide. His work has had a profound influence on the theory and application of statistics in diverse fields.

Rao was the recipient of many prestigious awards, including the US National Medal of Science awarded by the President of the US, and the Padma Vibhushan awarded by the Government of India. He was a Fellow of the Royal Society, and served as the President of the International Statistical Institute, the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, and the International Biometric Society.

Rao passed away in Buffalo, New York on $22^{\text {nd }}$ August, 2023.

A. N. Kolmogorov with C. R. Rao and P. C. Mahalanobis at the Special Convocation on 28.04.1962

1.6 Distinguished scientists and statesmen who have served the Institute since inception

Presidents

Chairpersons

Directors

D.Sc. (Honoris Causa) awardees

1.7 THE COUNCIL \& KEY COMMITTEES

Council

President

Prof. Sankar K. Pal
National Science Chair, SERB-DST
Govt. of India

Chairman

Dr. Pronab Sen

Director

Prof. Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay

Representatives of the Government of India

Shri Alok Shekhar

Additional Secretary
Government of India, Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation, New Delhi

Shri Jayant Sinha

Additional Secretary \& Financial Advisor
Government of India,
Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation, New Delhi

Ms. Hema Jaiswal

Dy. Director General
Government of India, Ministry of Finance

Dr. O.P. Mall

Executive Director,
Reserve Bank of India, Mumbai

Smt. Puja Singh Mandol

Additional Secretary
Government of India, Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation, New Delhi

Shri Deepak Narain

Additional Secretary \& Financial Advisor
Government of India,
Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation, New Delhi

Dr. Manoranjan Mohanty

Scientist – F and Head Autonomous Institute Division
Ministry of Science and Technology, New Delhi

Shri R. Rajesh

Deputy Director General
Ministry of Education, New Delhi

Representative of the ICSSR

Prof. Satish Jain

Indian Council of Social Science Research, New Delhi (01.04.2023 – 30.08.2023)

Representatives of the INSA

Prof. Kapil H. Paranjape

Department of Mathematical Sciences
Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, (IISER), Mohali

Prof. Rohini M. Godbole, FNA

Centre for High Energy Physics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

Dr. Anurag Agarwal

Former Director, CSIR -Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology (IGIB)
Dean Biosciences and Health Research, Ashoka University

Prof. Rahul Mukherjee, FNA

National Science Chair, Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta

Representative of the University Grants Commission

Prof. Kolin Paul

Microsoft Chair Professor
Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
Scientists co-opted by the Council

Prof. Saibal Chattopadhyay

Professor and Former Director, IIM Calcutta

Prof. Asis Kumar Chattopadhyay
Pro-Vice-Chancellor
Academic Affairs, Calcutta University

Elected representatives of the Institute members not employed in the Institute

Shri Rabindra Narayan Das

Kolkata

Prof. B. Mohan Reddy

Hyderabad

Elected representatives of the employees of the Institute

Dr. Utsav Chowdhury

Representative of the Scientific Workers
(01.04.2023 – 06.08.2023)

Shri Swarup Ghara

Representative of the Non-Scientific Workers

Officers of the Institute

Prof. Pradipta Bandyopadhyay
Professor-in-Charge,
Theoretical Statistics and Mathematics Division

Dr. Abhishek Mukherjee

Professor-in-Charge,
Biological Sciences Division

Prof. Rajat Kumar De

Professor-in-Charge,
Computer and Communication Sciences Division

Prof. Biswabrata Pradhan

Head, SQC \& OR Division

Prof. B.S. Daya Sagar

Head, Bangalore Centre

Prof. Gopal Krishna Basak

Dean of Studies

Non-Member Secretary

From $1^{\text {st }}$ April 2023 – $2^{\text {nd }}$ April 2023
Lieutenant Colonel Sandeep Pal
Chief Executive (Administration \& Finance) – Officiating

Prof. Smarajit Bose

Professor-in-Charge,
Applied Statistics Division

Prof. Niladri Sekhar Dash

Professor-in-Charge,
Social Sciences Division

Prof. Parthasarathi Ghosh

Officiating Professor-in-Charge (01.04.2023-13.12.2023)
Professor-in-Charge (from 14.12.2023)
Physics and Earth Sciences Division

Prof. Antar Bandyopadhyay

Head, Delhi Centre

Prof. G. Ravindran

Head, Chennai Centre

Shri Ravinder Kumar

Chief Executive (Administration \& Finance)

Academic Council

Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay
Director (Chairperson)
\section*{Gopal Krishna Basak}
Dean of Studies (Convener)

Applied Statistics Division

• Amita Pal
• Anup Dewanji
• Atanu Biswas
• Ayanendranath Basu
• Bimal Kr. Roy
• Debapriya Sengupta
• Debasis Sengupta
• Debashis Paul
• Kishan Chand Gupta
• Mridul Nandi
• Palash Sarkar
• Smarajit Bose
• Subhamoy Maitra
• Souvik Ray
• Subir Kumar Bhandari
• Sumitra Purkayastha
• Tapas Samanta
• Abhik Ghosh
• Arnab Chakraborty

Biological Sciences

Division

• Arunava Goswami
• Joydev Chattopadhyay
• Pabitra Banik
• Rabi Ranjan Chattopadhyay
• Sabyasachi Bhattacharya
• Pradip Bhattacharyya
• Suparna Mandal Biswas

Computer and

Communication Sciences Division

• Ansuman Banerjee
• Arijit Bishnu
• Ashish Ghosh
• B.S. Daya Sagar
• B. Uma Shankar
• Devika P. Madalli
• Dipti Prasad Mukherjee
• Kausik Kumar Majumdar
• Krishnendu Mukhopadhyaya
• Mandar Mitra
• Nikhil Ranjan Pal
• Pradipta Maji
• Rajat Kumar De
• Sandip Das
• Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay
• Sasthi Charan Ghosh
• Sourav Chakraborty
• Srimanta Pal
• Subhas Chandra Nandy
• Sushmita Mitra
• Susmita Sur-Kolay
• Umapada Pal
• Utpal Garain
• Mathew C. Francis
• Sabyasachi Karati

Physics and Earth Sciences

Division

• Dhurjati Prasad Sengupta
• Guruprasad Kar
• B. Ramakrishnan
• Partha Sarathi Ghosh
• Preeti Parashar
• Subir Ghosh
• Amlan Banerjee
• Dibakar Ghosh

Social Sciences Division

• Abhiroop Mukhopadhyay
• Chetan Ghate
• Debasis Mishra
• Diganta Mukherjee
• E. Somanathan
• Farzana Afridi
• Indraneel Dasgupta
• Madhura Swaminathan
• Manipushpak Mitra
• Niladri Sekhar Dash
• Prabal Roy Chowdhury
• Samarjit Das
• Tridip Ray
• Anuj Bhowmik
• Kanishka Kacker

Statistical Quality Control and Operations Research Division

• A.L.N. Murthy
• Abhijit Gupta
• Arup Kumar Das
• Arup Ranjan Mukhopadhyay
• Ashis Kr. Chakraborty
• Ashok Sarkar
• Biswabrata Pradhan
• Boby John
• Dipak Kr. Manna
• E.V. Gijo
• G. Murali Rao
• G. Ravindran
• G.S.R. Murthy
• Md. Zafar Anis
• Nandini Das
• Prasun Das
• Ranjan Sett
• Sanjit Ray
• Surajit Pal
• Susanta Kr. Gauri
• U. Haridas Acharya
• S. M. Subhani
• Sagar Sikder

Theoretical Statistics and Mathematics Division

• Abhay Gopal Bhatt
• Amartya Kumar Dutta
• Anil Kumar Ghosh
• Anish Sarkar
• Antar Bandyopadhyay
• Arup Bose
• Arup Kumar Pal
• B. Sury
• B.V. Rajarama Bhat
• Debashish Goswami
• Gopal Krishna Basak
• Isha (Bagai) Dewan
• Jaydeb Sarkar
• Mahuya Datta
• Mohana Delampady
• Mrinal Kanti Das
• Neena Gupta

• Partha Sarathi Chakraborty
• Parthanil Roy
• Pradipta Bandyopadhyay
• Probal Chaudhuri
• Rahul Roy
• Raja C. Edward Robinson
• Ritabrata Munshi
• Rudra Pada Sarkar
• Shanta Laishram
• Siva Athreya
• Swagata Nandi
• Swagato Kumar Ray
• Arijit Chakrabarty
• Issan Patri

Computer and Statistical Service Centre

• Ujjwal Bhattacharya

Library, Documentation and Information Sciences Division
– Kishor Chandra Satpathy
Member-Secretary, International Statistical Education Center
– Amita Pal

Finance Committee

• Director (Chairperson);
• Government Representative (MOS\&PI);
• Government Representative (Ministry of Finance);
• Deputy Director, ISI;
• Subhamoy Maitra, ISI, Kolkata;
• E.V. Gijo, ISI Bangalore;
• Pradipta Bandyopadhyay, ISI, Kolkata;
• Subir Ghosh, ISI, Kolkata;
• Kuntal Ghosh, ISI, Kolkata;
• Rabindra Narayan Das, Representative, General Body, ISI Council;
• Utsav Choudhury, ISI, Kolkata;
• Head, Delhi Centre;
• Head, Bangalore Centre;
• Head, Chennai Centre;
• Chief Executive (A\&F);
• Amitava Mukherjee, (Convener)

Works Advisory Committee

Bangalore

• S.V. Venkatesh (Chairperson)
• B.K. Keshavan, External Expert (Electrical Engineering)
• P. Raghuveer Rao, External Expert (Civil Engineering)
• Head, ISI, Bangalore
• Head, Theoretical Statistics and Mathematics Unit, ISI, Bangalore or his/her nominee
• Head, Documentation Research and Training Centre, ISI, Bangalore or his/her nominee
• Head, SQC \& OR Unit, ISI, Bangalore or his/her nominee
• Head, Systems Science and Informatics Unit, ISI, Bangalore or his/her nominee
• Sr. Accounts Officer, ISI, Bangalore
• Deputy Chief Executive (A), ISI, Bangalore
• Sr. Administrative Officer, ISI, Bangalore (Convener)

Delhi

• B. Bhattacharjee, Civil Engineering department, IIT, Delhi (Chairman)
• G.K. Taneja, Executive Engineer, IIT, Delhi, Expert (Electrical)
• R. Upadhyay, Executive Engineer (Civil), Shri Lal Bahadur National Sanskrit University, Expert (Civil)
• Madhav Naik (Architect)
• Head, ISI, Delhi
• Anish Sarkar, ISI, Delhi
• Moni Shankar Bishnu, ISI, Delhi
• Mr. Parama Gogoi, ISI, Delhi
• Deputy Chief Executive (A), ISI, Delhi (Convener)

Kolkata

• Debashis Bandyopadhyay, Jadavpur University (Chairperson)
• Anandapran Gupta (Special Advisor)
• Ranjan Sett (Vice-Chairperson)
• Indranil Dasgupta, ISI, Kolkata
• Amartya Kumar Dutta, ISI, Kolkata
• Hari Charan Behera, ISI, Giridih
• Sankar Sarkar, ISI, Kolkata
• Dilip Saha
• Srikumar Bhattacharya (External Expert) (Retd. Chief Engineer\& Ex. Officio Secy., PWD, GoWB)
• Bhaskar Sengupta (External Expert (Civil))
• Siddhartha Datta (External Expert (Architecture))
• Asim Sinha (External Expert (Electrical))
• Chief Executive (A\&F)
• Swarup Ghara, ISI, Kolkata
• Amitava Mukherjee, Deputy Chief Executive (F)
• In-Charge, Electric Maintenance Unit, ISI, Kolkata
• In-Charge, Engineering Unit, ISI, Kolkata (Convener)

Infrastructure Development Committee, North-East Centre

• Chair, External from Tezpur University, External experts
• Nityananda Sarkar, External Expert
• Darpa Saurav Jyethi, ISI NE Centre
• Isha Dewan, ISI Delhi
• Smarajit Bose, ISI Kolkata
• Avijit Ganguly, Sr. Engineer, ISI Kolkata
• Sukhendu Majumdar, Accounts Officer (ISI NE)
• Amitava Mukherjee, DCE(F)
• Head, North-East Centre
• Rimlee Bardhan (Convener)

Infrastructure Development Committee, Chennai

• R.L. Karandikar (Chairperson)
• T.V. Prabhakaran, Retired Architect, Chennai (External Expert)
• K. Premalatha, Head, Civil Engg. Dept., Anna Univ. (External Expert)
• ipti Prasad Mukherjee, ISI, Kolkata
• Abhay G. Bhatt, ISI, Delhi
• Avijit Ganguly, Sr. Engineer, ISI Kolkata
• Amitava Mukherjee, DCE(F)
• Biju Mathew, Sr. Admn. Officer, ISI, Chennai
• Head, Chennai Centre

Ph.D. / D.Sc. Committees

Computer Science

• Director or his/her nominee (Chairperson)
• Dean of Studies or his/her nominee
• Sarbani Palit
• Pradipta Maji
• Dipti P. Mukherjee
• Subhamoy Maitra
• B. S. Dayasagar
• Mathew C. Francis
• Ansuman Banerjee
• Krishnendu Mukhopadhyaya (Convener)

Mathematics

• Director or his/her nominee (Chairperson)
• Dean of Studies or his/her nominee
• Arijit Chakraborty (TSMUK)
• Jaydeb Sarkar
• Mahuya Datta
• Mrinal K Das
• Parthasarathi Chakraborty
• Samik Basu
• Satadal Ganguly
• Suresh Nayak
• Tanvi Jain
• Maneesh Thakur (Convener)

Quantitative Economics

• Director or his/her nominee (Chairperson)
• Dean of Studies or his/her nominee
• Samarjit Das
• Manipushpak Mitra
• Prabal Roy Chowdhury
• Madhura Swaminathan
• Debasis Mishra
• Abhiroop Mukhopadhyay
• Indraneel Dasgupta (Convener)

Statistical Quality Control and Operations Research

• Director or his/her nominee (Chairperson)
• Dean of Studies or his/her nominee
• Prasun Das
• Susanta K. Gauri
• Md. Zafar Anis
• G. Ravindran
• Biswabrata Pradhan
• Debasis Sengupta
• Arup Ranjan Mukhopadhyay (Convener)

Statistics

• Director or his/her nominee (Chairperson)
• Dean of Studies or his/her nominee
• Arijit Chakrabarti (ASUK)
• Ayanendranath Basu
• Deepayan Sarkar
• Indranil Mukhopadhyay
• Kiranmoy Das
• Parthanil Roy
• Anil K Ghosh
• Rituparna Sen (Convener)

Policy Planning and Evaluation Committee (PPEC)

• Chairman of ISI Council (Chairperson)
• Director, ISI (Vice-Chairperson)
• Director General, CSO
• Financial Advisor, MOS \& PI
• Professor Amitabha Ghosh, Former Director, IIT Kharagpur, Former Professor, IIT Kanpur, Hony. Distinguished Prof. of IIEST
• Professor Partha P. Majumder, National Science Chair, NIBMG
• Professor Partha Pratim Chakrabarti, Professor and former Director, IIT, Kharagpur

• Dr. Shekhar C. Mande, Former DG, CSIR
• Professor Bharat Ramaswamy, Ashoka University, Haryana
• Professor Debasis Sengupta, ISI, Kolkata
• Professor Abhiroop Mukhopadhyay, ISI, Delhi
• Professor B.V. Rajarama Bhat, ISI, Bangalore
• Professor Dipti P. Mukherjee, Dy. Director, ISI (Member-Convener)

Technical Advisory Committees (TAC)

Applied Statistics Division

• Director, ISI (Chairperson)
• Professor R.L. Karandikar
• Professor Kalyan Das
• Professor Sahadeb Sarkar
• Professor Arnab Laha
• Professor-in-Charge, Applied Statistics Division (Convener)

Biological Sciences

Division

• Director, ISI, Chairperson
• Professor Gaurangadeb Chattopadhyay
• Dr. Santasabuj Das
• Professor Tapas Kumar Das
• Dr. Sanjay K. Ray
• Professor-in-Charge, Biological Sciences Division (Convener)

Computer and
Communication Sciences
Division

• Director, ISI (Chairperson)
• Professor P. Nagabhushan
• Professor Santanu Chaudhury
• Professor Chiranjib Bhattacharyya
• Professor Pijushkanti Panigrahi
• Professor Arobinda Gupta
• Professor N. S. Narayanswamy
• Professor-in-Charge, Computer \& Communication Sciences Division (Convener)

Library, Documentation and Information Sciences Division

• Director, ISI (Chairperson)
• Gurdish Sandhu
• Dr. K. Rama Patnaik
• Prof. Prabir Ghosh Dastidar
• Dr. Nabi Hasan
• Dr. Venkat Srinivasan
• Chief Librarian (Convener)

Physics and Earth Sciences Division

• Director, ISI (Chairperson)
• Professor Archan S. Majumda
• Professor Suman Chakraborty
• Professor Joydip Mukhopadhyay
• Professor Tapas Bhattacharyya
• Professor Manju Mohan
• Professor-in-Charge, Physics \& Earth Sciences Division (Convener)
• Social Sciences Division
• Director, ISI (Chairperson)
• Professor Awadesh Kumar Mishra
• Professor Manas Kumar Mandal
• Professor Kamal Kant Misra
• Professor Saikat Sinha Roy
• Professor Tathagata Bandyopadhyay
• Professor-in-Charge Social Sciences Division (Convener)

Statistical Quality Control and Operations Research Division

• Director, ISI (Chairperson)
• Professor Debasis Kundu
• Professor Asok K. Nanda
• Professor Anand G.
• Mr. Rajaram Majali
• Head, SQC \& OR Division (Convener)

Theoretical Statistics and Mathematics Division

• Director, ISI (Chairperson)
• Professor Saibal Chattopadhyay
• Professor Gourangadeb Chattopadhyay
• Professor V. S. Borkar
• Professor Mahan Maharaj
• Professor Jugal Verma
• Professor-in-Charge, Statistics \& Mathematics Division (Convener)

1.8 Funding

The Ministry of Statistics \& Programme Implementation, Government of India provides full funding to the Institute. Their support and constant encouragement are among the major factors that help the Institute to sustain its academic growth and excellence.

Chapter

Teaching and Training

Dean of Studies:
No of Scientific Staff:
No of non-scientific staff:

Gopal Krishna Basak
Office: $5^{\text {th }}$ floor, S.N. Bose Bhawan, ISI, Kolkata-700 108
up to January 2024 – 3 (Male)
February – March 2024- 2 (Male)
12 (Male- 10 and Female-2)

Admission across programmes

Human Resources Generated

2.1 Programmes Offered

ISI, a premier institute in India, is renowned for its first internationally acclaimed undergraduate and postgraduate degree programmes in Statistics introduced by its founder, Prof. P.C. Mahalanobis in 1961. Over the years, more academic programmes have been added.

The following academic programmes were offered during the academic session 2023-24:

This training is provided to UG/PG students from other reputed Universities/Institutions as part of their curriculum requirements/ for enhancement of knowledge and application skills, under the guidance of faculty members of the Institute.

2.2 Admissions

Degree, Diploma and Ph.D. Programmes

An all-India entrance examination is conducted annually by the Dean’s Office for all programmes (except Post Graduate Diploma in Business Analytics).

The two-year Post Graduate Diploma in Business Analytics (PGDBA) programme, jointly offered with IIM Calcutta and IIT Kharagpur, aims to deliver a cutting-edge interdisciplinary educational experience to graduates aspiring to build a career in the rapidly expanding field of business analytics. The first semester of this programme is conducted every year in ISI. The selection and admission process for the programme is carried out by the three institutes on a rotation basis.

Date of ISI Admission test: 14 May 2023
Date of PGDBA Admission test: 26 March 2023

Enrollment in Degree-Diploma Programmes

Short-term Training Programmes

2.3 Graduating Students

The number of students graduating, under the different programmes, are as follows-

Recipients of Prizes

During the $58^{\text {th }}$ Convocation of the Indian Statistical Institute was held on $19^{\text {th }}$ December, 2023, students were felicitated with medals and prizes in recognition of their outstanding performance for the session ending 2024, under the following programmes –

Undergraduate

Aytijhya Saha
B.Stat.

ISIAA – Mrs. M. R.
lyer Memorial Gold Medal for outstanding overall performance

Aytijhya Saha
B.Stat.

Nikhilesh Bhattacharya
Memorial Gold Medal for best performance in Statistics

Aytijhya Saha
B.Stat.

Usri Gangopadhyay Memorial
Medal for the best female student in B. Stat. (Hons.) Programme

Arunav Bhowmick
B.Stat.
D. Basu Memorial Gold Medal for outstanding performance

Rupsa Ray

B.Stat.

Mukul Chaudhuri Cash Award for the best female student in the first year (2022-23)
Mukul Chaudhuri Cash Award for the best female student in the second year

Aprameya Girish Hebbar
B.Math.
S. H. Aravind Gold Medal for outstanding performance

Postgraduate

Anvit Garg

M.Stat.

ISIAA – J. K. Ghosh Memorial Gold Medal for outstanding performance

Sreejit Roy

M.Stat.

Sabyasachi Roy Memorial Gold Medal for doing the best project work in second year

Tathagata Sadhukhan

M.Stat.

Certificate of Honourable Mention in connection with Sabyasachi Roy Memorial Gold Medal for doing an excellent project work in the second year

Aritra C Bhattacharya

M. Math.

ISIAA – P. C. Panesar Memorial Gold Medal for outstanding overall performance

Manit Paul

M.Stat.

P. C. Mahalanobis Memorial Gold Medal for outstanding performance

Tathagata Sadhukhan
M.Stat.

Certificate of Honourable Mention in connection with Sabyasachi Roy Memorial Gold Medal for doing an excellent project work in the second year

Kaustav Sen

MS (QE)
Dr. N. S. Iyenger Award for best student of Econometrics

PhD Degrees Awarded by ISI

The following students were conferred PhD degrees after having successfully completed their requirements for the award of PhD degree –

PhD Degrees Awarded by Other Academic bodies

A. Research Fellows (with ISI-fellowships) who have been awarded Ph. D degree by Academic Bodies other than ISI for work done in ISI.

B. Research Fellows (with other fellowships)/Personnel who have been awarded Ph. D degree by Academic Bodies other than ISI for work done in ISI.

2.4 PLACEMENT

During 2023-24 Indian Statistical Institute had offered the following degree and diploma courses B. Stat, B. Math, M. Stat, M. Math, MS(QE), MSQMS, MSLIS, M. Tech (CS), M. Tech (C/S), M. Tech (QROR), PGDBA, PGDSMA, and PGDARSMA. ISI also offers PhD programs in various disciplines. All the PhD scholars are fully absorbed in various institutes, universities and other sectors. Generally, students of B. Stat and B. Math programs do not opt for jobs but enrol into M. Stat and M. Math programs respectively. Some students after completion of their programs, opt for higher education and enrol at the PhD programs in the country or foreign universities or institutes. All the other remaining students go for jobs through the ISI placement cell (or otherwise). Some students during master and diploma programs work as interns in various companies for a short- or medium-term period. Tables with course-wise information about placements and corresponding salary offered are given subsequently.

Higher Education

Given the excellent education that students receive under the well-designed, modern curriculum at ISI, a majority of them opt for higher education by joining PhD programmes in world-renowned universities and institutions (national and international), after completing their post-graduate education in ISI.

At the conclusion of the academic year 2022-23, a large number of students completing various Master’s degree programmes at ISI, secured admission to PhD programmes conducted by prestigious national and international universities, very often after a highly competitive selection process.

The Universities/ Institutions in which these students joined PhD programmes in 2023-24 are listed below:
National Institutes/Universities: Indian Institute of Management Bangalore; Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University, Lucknow; Indian Statistical Institute. Total (56)

Placement in Industry

Course-wise Recruitments and Salary

Name of some companies who recruited

Diploma Course-wise Recruitments and Salary

Name of some companies who recruited

2.5 International Training Programme International Statistical Education Centre (ISEC)

Member Secretary: Prof. Amita Pal (1 ${ }^{\text {st }}$ April – $31^{\text {st }}$ December 2023
Dr. Md. Zafar Anis (1st January – 31st March 2024)
Office: C.D. Deshmukh Bhawan, 202, B.T. Road, ISI, Kolkata

No of Scientific Staff: One (1)
No of non-scientific staff: Four (4)
The International Statistical Education Centre (ISEC) was founded in 1950 at Kolkata through the initiative of Professor P.C. Mahalanobis, based on an agreement between the International Statistical Institute and the Indian Statistical Institute (ISI). It is an Associate Institution of ISI as per Regulation no. 14 of the Institute. It functions under a Board of Directors, which has members from ISI, MoSPI and the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA), and whose current Chairman is Professor S. P. Mukherjee. The centre aims to provide training in theoretical and applied statistics at various levels to selected participants from countries of the Middle East, the Far East, South and South-East Asia, as well as the Commonwealth countries of Africa. The primary training programme is a 10 -month regular course in Statistics (titled Statistical Theory and

Applications) leading to a Diploma. In addition, special courses on different topics of varying duration are also organized for international participants. In the current financial year (2023-24), two such short-duration courses were organized.

Regular Course

The $75^{\text {th }}$ term of the regular course titled Statistical Theory and Applications commenced on $1^{\text {st }}$ September, 2023 with 14 trainees. The trainees are from thirteen different countries, namely Burundi, Bangladesh, Botswana, Ivory Coast, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Fiji, Gambia, Kenya, Madagascar, Myanmar, Malawian, Niger.

Special Course

Chapter

Research Activities

Research Activities

The major thrust of the Institute is on research in various disciplines and the activities of the Institute are organized into Divisions. These Divisions have multi-locational units (vide the Locations page, Chapter 1). Scientists of the Institute carry out independent research in their own basic discipline and also undertake interdisciplinary research in collaboration with other units within the Institute and also with other organizations. The Institute also takes up various internally and externally funded projects in diverse fields on challenging problems of national and international importance. As a part of research activities, the scientists of the Institute are also involved in consultancy work.

The Institute has a network of units under the Statistical Quality Control and Operations Research Division which, in addition to research and training activities, also specialize in providing technical consultancy to a wide range of public and private organizations for developing quality management systems and in solving critical problems of quality, reliability and productivity.
This chapter provides the principal areas of work and the projects undertaken by the faculty, of the different Divisions, during 2023-2024.

The eight Divisions for research, development and consultancy activities are

One Division providing services –

Computer and Statistical Services Centre (CSSC), Kolkata

Additionally, there are five national facilities

3.1 Applied Statistics Division (ASD)

Professor In-Charge: SMARAJIT BOSE, ISRU, Kolkata
Office: $4^{\text {th }}$ floor, R.A. Fisher Bhavan, ISI, Kolkata 700108

Applied Statistics Unit (ASU), Bangalore

• Head of Unit: Rituparna Sen
• Number of Faculties: 1 (Female: 1)
• Number of Scientific Worker: 1 (Female: 1)
• Number of Research Scholar: 1 (Female: 1)
• Office: $8^{\text {th }}$ Mile, Mysore Rd, RVCE Post, ISI, Bengalore, Karnataka 560059

Applied Statistics Unit (ASU), Kolkata

• Head of Unit: Subhamoy Maitra
• Number of Faculties: 15 (Male: 15)
• Number of Scientific Worker: 2 (Male: 2)
• Number of Non-Scientific Worker: 2 (Male: 2)
• Number of Research Scholar: 48 (Male: 40, Female: 8)
• Office: 203 B.T. Road, $8^{\text {th }}$ Floor, S.N. Bose Bhavan, ISI, Kolkata 700108

Applied Statistics Unit (ASU), Chennai

• Head of Unit: Sudheesh Kumar Kattumannil
• Number of Faculties: 1 (Male: 1)
• Office: 37, Nelson Manickam Road, Aminjikarai, ISI, Chennai, Tamilnadu -600029

Interdisciplinary Statistical Research Unit (ISRU), Kolkata

• Head of Unit: Amita Pal
• Number of Faculties: 9 (Male: 8, Female: 1)
• Number of Scientific Worker: 1 (Male: 1)
• Number of Non-Scientific Worker: 3 (Male: 1, Female: 2)
• Number of Research Scholar: 14 (Male: 13, Female: 1)
• Office: $4^{\text {th }}$ Floor, R A Fisher Bhavan, ISI, Kolkata – 700108

1. Applied Statistics Unit (ASU), Bangalore

RESEARCH

The unit carries out research in applied statistics especially in the area of financial statistics and risk management. In addition it participates in consulting and teaching.

Current Areas of Research

Projects

Externally Funded Projects

ONGOING PROJECTS

2. Applied Statistics Unit (ASU), Chennai

RESEARCH

The faculty member is doing research in the area of Reliability and Survival Analysis, Non-parametric inference and empirical likelihood inference. Helping IIT Tirupati with teaching activities.

Current Areas of Research

3. Applied Statistics Unit (ASU), Kolkata

RESEARCH

Cryptology, and Security, Digital Watermarking, Sensor Networks, Quantum Information, Combinatorics, Theoretical Computer Science, Discrete Logarithm Problem, Computation using Kummer Line, Lattice Based Cryptography, Symmetric Key Cryptography.
Problems related to Discrete-Valued Time Series, Sequential Analysis and Clinical Trials, among others Multivariate Analysis, Inference, Bio-Statistics, Signal Processing, Big Data Analysis, Regression and Data Science.
Copula based Methods and Inference with focus on Multivariate Longitudinal Models.
High-Dimensional Statistics, Model Selection, Multiple Hypothesis Testing.
Applied Statistics, Pattern Recognition, E M Algorithm.
Game Theory, High dimensional Inference, Change-point Detection in Random Networks, Large-Scale Multiple Testing for Sequential Data

Current Areas of Research

Projects

Externally Funded Projects
NEW PROJECTS

ONGOING PROJECTS

4. Interdisciplinary Statistical Research Unit (ISRU), Kolkata

RESEARCH

This unit was formed in 2006, and was known as BIRU until 2015. The unit had 9 faculty members during this period. The research areas covered by the unit include robust inference, machine learning, pattern recognition, classification and clustering, Bayesian inference, spatio-temporal data analysis, high dimensional statistics, multiple hypothesis testing, statistical image analysis, directional data analysis, big data analytics, bioinformatics, computational neuroscience and many others. The faculty maintain research collaborations with scientists from various national and international organizations. Each and every faculty member of the unit take regular part in teaching — not only in the courses under the curriculum of the Institute as approved by the Academic Council — but also in Summer/Winter Schools, Workshops and ISEC courses. The faculty members are also active in supervising doctoral and master’s degree programs, and serve in the editorial board of several international journals.

Current Areas of Research

Projects

Internally Funded Projects

ONGOING PROJECTS

Externally Funded Projects

NEW PROJECTS

COMPLETED PROJECTS

3.2 Biological Sciences Division (BSD)

Professor In-Charge: ABHISHEK MUKHERJEE, AERU, Giridih
Office: Rose Villa, New Barganda, ISI, Giridih, Jharkhand – 815301

Agricultural \& Ecological Research Unit (AERU), Giridih \& Kolkata

• Head of Unit: Suparna Mandal Biswas
• Number of Faculties: 8 (Male: 7, Female: 1)
• Number of Scientific Worker: 3 (Male: 2, Female: 1)
• Number of Non-Scientific Worker: 5 (Male: 5)
• Number of Research Scholar: 31 (Male: 16, Female: 15)
• Office: 203, B. T. Road, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata 700108 and AERU Giridih Branch, Indian Statistical Institute, Rose Villa, New Barganda, Giridih, Jharkhand – 815301

Human Genetics Unit (HGU), Kolkata

• Head of Unit: Raghunath Chatterjee
• Number of Faculties: 2 (Male: 2)
• Number of Scientific Worker: 1 (Male: 1)
• Number of Non-Scientific Worker: 2 (Male: 2)
• Number of Research Scholar: 11 (Male: 7, Female: 4)
• Office: $2^{\text {nd }}$ floor, A.N. Kolmogorov Bhavan, 203, B. T. Road, ISI, Kolkata 700108
  

1. Agricultural \& Ecological Research Unit (AERU), Kolkata

RESEARCH

The Agricultural and Ecological Research Unit (AERU) belongs to the Biological Sciences division. AERU is based in Kolkata and has its branch at Giridih, Jharkhand State. The Unit is comprised of eight faculty members and three Associate Scientists. The primary focus of the Unit is to conduct research in agricultural and ecological sciences with special emphasis on enhancing agricultural productivity, promoting environmental sustainability, and addressing ecological challenges. Our unit is also involved in developing various ecological models using advanced mathematical and statistical tools. This is a powerful approach in better understanding of complex ecological interactions. It helps to build strategies for sustainable ecological management and conservation. Our faculty members take classes for B. Stat and M. Stat courses of ISI and also in other Universities. AERU is conducting Post Graduate Diploma in Agricultural and Rural Management with Statistical Methods and Analytics in the Giridih Branch.

Current Areas of Research

Projects

Internally Funded Projects

NEW PROJECTS

ONGOING PROJECTS

COMPLETED PROJECTS

Externally Funded Projects

NEW PROJECTS

ONGOING PROJECTS

COMPLETED PROJECTS

2. Human Genetics Unit (HGU), Kolkata

RESEARCH

1. Genetic and epigenetic association in Human Health and Diseases
2. To identify the role of genetic and epigenetic alterations in epidermal keratinocytes in the pathogenesis of Psoriasis
3. Genomic data integration
4. Development of single-cell data analysis methods
5. Genetic Association Mapping Of Comorbid Phenotypes
6. Combining Family-based Controls with Unrelated Cases In Genetic Mapping

Current Areas of Research

Projects

Internally Funded Projects

NEW PROJECTS

COMPLETED PROJECTS

Externally Funded Projects

NEW PROJECTS

ONGOING PROJECTS

3.3 Computer and Communication Sciences Division (CCSD)

Professor In-Charge: RAJAT KUMAR DE, MIU, Kolkata
Office: $4^{\text {th }}$ floor, Platinum Jubilee Building, ISI, Kolkata-700 108

Advanced Computing and Microelectronics Unit (ACMU), Kolkata

• Head of Unit: Sandip Das
• Number of Faculties: 10 (Male: 9, Female: 1)
• Number of Scientific Worker: 2 (Male: 2)
• Number of Non-Scientific Worker: 4 (Male: 3, Female: 1)
• Number of Research Scholar: 40 (Male: 24, Female: 16)
• Office: $5^{\text {th }}$ floor, P.J.A. Building, 203, B. T. Road, ISI, Kolkata – 700 108.

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Unit (CVPRU), Kolkata

• Head of Unit: Sarbani Palit
• Number of Faculties: 6 (Male: 5, Female: 1)
• Number of Scientific Worker: 1 (Male: 1)
• Number of Non-Scientific Worker: 1 (Male: 1)
• Number of Research Scholar: 17 (Male: 14, Female: 3)
• Office: $8^{\text {th }}$ floor, S.N. Bose Bhavan, 203 B T Road, ISI, Kolkata 700108

Computer Science Unit (CSU), Chennai

• Head of Unit: T. Karthick
• Number of Faculties: 4 (Male: 3, Female: 1)
• Number of Scientific Worker: 1 (Female: 1)
• Number of Research Scholar: 3 (Male: 3)
• Office: 37, Nelson Manickam Road, Aminjikarai, ISI, Chennai-600029.

Cryptology and Security Research Unit (CSRU),
Kolkata

• Head of Unit: Goutam Kumar Paul
• Number of Faculties: 5 (Male: 5)
• Number of Non-Scientific Worker: 3 (Male: 3)
• Office: $3^{\text {rd }}$ floor, C.D. Deshmukh Bhavan, 203, B.T. Road, ISI, Kolkata 700108

Documentation Research and Training Centre (DRTC), Bangalore

• Head of Unit: Biswanath Dutta
• Number of Faculties: 3 (Male: 2, Female: 1)
• Number of Scientific Worker: 1 (Male: 1)
• Number of Non-Scientific Worker: 1 (Male: 1)
• Number of Research Scholar: 5 (Male: 1, Female: 4)
• Office: $8^{\text {th }}$ Mile, Mysore Road, ISI, Bengaluru- 560059

Machine Intelligence Unit (MIU), Kolkata

• Head of Unit: Bulusu Uma Shankar
• Number of Faculties: 10 (Male: 8, Female: 2)
• Number of Non-Scientific Worker: 4 (Male: 2, Female: 2)
• Number of Research Scholar: 12 (Male: 5, Female: 7)
• Office: $4^{\text {th }}$ floor, Platinum Jubilee Building, 203, B.T. Road, ISI, Kolkata-700 108
  
  (ECSU) Kolkata
• Head of Unit: Pinakpani Pal
• Number of Faculties: 7 (Male: 6, Female: 1)
• Number of Scientific Worker: 1 (Male: 1)
• Number of Non-Scientific Worker: 5 (Male: 5)
• Number of Research Scholar: 16 (Male: 15, Female: 1)
• Office: $9^{\text {th }}$ floor, S.N. Bose Bhavan, 203, B.T. Road, ISI, Kolkata 700108

Systems Science and Informatics Unit (SSIU), Bangalore

• Head of Unit: Prabuddha Chakraborty
• Number of Faculties: 4 (Male: 4)
• Number of Non-Scientific Worker: 1 (Female: 1)
• Number of Research Scholar: 2 (Male: 1, Female: 1)
• Office: $8^{\text {th }}$ Mile, Mysore Road, RVCE Post ISI, Bengaluru – 560059

1. Advanced Computing and Microelectronics Unit (ACMU), Kolkata

RESEARCH

The focus of the faculty/scientific members of the ACM Unit (ACMU) is in the core areas of Computer Science and Engineering, broadly spanning topics in Theoretical Computer Science and High Performance Computing Systems.

TEACHING AND TRAINING :-

(a) Degree and Training Courses: During 2023 -2024, all the faculty members of the Unit taught a significant number of courses in the M.Tech (Computer Science) program, along with those in other degree programs such as B. Stat., M. Stat. and PGDBA of the Institute. Five research courses were also taught for Ph.D. scholars.

Current Areas of Research

Projects

Internally Funded Projects

ONGOING PROJECTS

COMPLETED PROJECTS

Externally Funded Projects

ONGOING PROJECTS

2. Computer Science Unit (CSU), Chennai

RESEARCH

The main research activities of the unit are in the following topics: (a) Reasoning in games on graphs (b) Complexity of logics of knowledge, games and protocols (c) Logics for distributed games (d) Reasoning in individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder (e) Game-theoretic empirical studies (f) Learning how to negotiate. (g) Coloring of some special classes of graphs (h) Design of efficient MDS matrices of order 8 (i) Graph coloring and its variants (j) Algorithmic graph theory (k) Structure of some graph classes

Current Areas of Research

Projects

Externally Funded Projects

ONGOING PROJECTS

COMPLETED PROJECTS

3. Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Unit (CVPRU), Kolkata RESEARCH

The faculty members of the Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Unit (CVPRU) are actively engaged in research activities in various areas of Computer Science and Information Technology like Document Processing, Handwriting Analysis, Video Text Analysis, Information Retrieval, Sentiment Analysis, Natural Language Processing, Data Mining, Biometrics, Medical Image/Signal Processing, Machine Learning, Computer Vision, Image and signal processing applications etc. The faculty members of CVPRU are also engaged in teaching various courses of the Institute such as Operating Systems, Compiler Construction, Data Structures, Programming Languages, Image Processing, Pattern Recognition, Document Processing, Information Retrieval, Natural Language Processing, Digital Signal Processing etc.

Current Areas of Research

Projects

Internally Funded Projects

ONGOING PROJECTS

COMPLETED PROJECTS

Externally Funded Projects

NEW PROJECTS

ONGOING PROJECTS

COMPLETED PROJECTS

Projects done for Govt. of India/State Govt.
ONGOING PROJECTS

4. Cryptology and Security Research Unit (CSRU), Kolkata

RESEARCH

CSRU is a part of the Computer and Communication Sciences Division (CCSD) of Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata. It is an integral component of R C Bose Centre for Cryptology and Security, a national hub for cryptographic requirements, cutting-edge research activities and indigenous capacity building in all relevant fields of study. The Unit aims at the promotion of interdisciplinary research in Mathematics, Computer Science and Statistics towards furtherance of teaching, research as well as training and development in Cryptology and Cyber Security.

Major activities of CSRU include teaching, training and research in Cryptology and Security. The Unit promotes sustained collaboration in focused research areas, and serves as a meeting point for eminent scholars. It also conducts internship and training programs targeted to produce a critical mass of experts to cater to the national and international requirements in this niche area.

Current Areas of Research

Projects

Internally Funded Projects

NEW PROJECTS

COMPLETED PROJECTS

5. Documentation Research and Training Centre (DRTC), Bangalore

RESEARCH

The Documentation Research and Training Centre (DRTC), established in 1962 by Prof. S. R. Ranganathan is an internationally recognized centre for advanced training and research in Library and Information Science. DRTC is a unit under the Computers and Communication Science Division of the Indian Statistical Institute. DRTC unit is located at the Bengaluru centre of the institute. Since its foundation, the Documentation Research and Training Centre (DRTC), Bangalore, has played a major role in almost all pedagogical and research advances in the Indian LIS milieu. Additionally, The DRTC researchers have worked with UNESCO, IFLA, Library of Congress, European Union, European Commission and other apex bodies. DRTC has taken the lead in adopting, integrating, and popularising the most recent technological developments that are altering library and information services in India.

Current Areas of Research

Projects

Internally Funded Projects

COMPLETED PROJECTS

Externally Funded Projects

ONGOING PROJECTS

6. Electronics and Communication Sciences Unit (ECSU) Kolkata

RESEARCH

The Electronics and Communication Sciences Unit (ECSU) is the oldest unit within the Computer and Communication Sciences Division (CCSD) of the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata. This unit is deeply involved in cutting-edge research in diverse areas including deep generative models, large language models, medical informatics, statistical theory of deep learning, image and video analytics, computational intelligence, information theory, quantum information processing, Cyber-Physical Systems, Formal Verification of AI-assisted Systems, Cryptology and Software Engineering. Faculty members actively participate in various governmental and industrial projects and consultancies that address significant real-life challenges of national importance. ECSU regularly hosts international conferences and workshops featuring esteemed researchers from around the globe. Faculty members have received numerous national and international awards and honors in recognition of their research excellence. They are also dedicated to knowledge dissemination through teaching, training, and research guidance. The unit is supported by a dynamic team of junior and senior research fellows, project-linked personnel, and both scientific and non-scientific staff, all of whom contribute significantly to the unit’s accomplishments.

Current Areas of Research

Projects

Internally Funded Projects

NEW PROJECTS

ONGOING PROJECTS

Externally Funded Projects

NEW PROJECTS

ONGOING PROJECTS

COMPLETED PROJECTS

Projects done for Govt. of India/State Govt.

NEW PROJECTS

7. Machine Intelligence Unit (MIU), Kolkata

RESEARCH

The objective of the unit is to carry out fundamental research concerning certain aspects of machine intelligence. Machine intelligence signifies the work associated with attempting to make a machine behave like a human being, and conveys the core concept of pattern recognition and machine learning with the advanced technologies like fuzzy logic, artificial neural networks, evolutionary computing, granular computing and rough sets. These tools provide efficient theories of flexible information processing, can tackle real-life ambiguous situations in an efficient manner like human beings, and therefore form the basis of future generation computing systems. The faculty members of the unit have also started working in the area of deep learning, both from the perspectives of theory and applications. Applications include bioinformatics, personalized medicine, computer vision, medical image processing and network analysis, while theoretical study deals with developing novel deep models with optimized architecture and appropriate learning algorithms for solving certain problems.

Current Areas of Research

Projects

Internally Funded Projects

NEW PROJECTS

ONGOING PROJECTS

COMPLETED PROJECTS

Externally Funded Projects

ONGOING PROJECTS

8. Systems Science and Informatics Unit (SSIU), Bangalore

RESEARCH

Research activities: Machine learning and data analysis, Mathematical morphology, Data analysis in neuroscience, theoretical condensed matter physics and quantum computing

Current Areas of Research

Projects

Externally Funded Projects

ONGOING PROJECTS

3.4 Physics and Earth Sciences Division (PESD)

Professor In-Charge: PARTHASARATHI GHOSH, GSU, Kolkata
Office: $2^{\text {nd }}$ floor, Platinum Jubilee Building, ISI, Kolkata-700 108

Geological Studies Unit (GSU), Kolkata

• Head of Unit: Shiladri Shekhar Das
• Number of Faculties: 7 (Male: 5, Female: 2)
• Number of Scientific Worker: 2 (Male: 2)
• Number of Non-Scientific Worker: 4 (Male: 2, Female: 2)
• Number of Research Scholar: 12 (Male: 6 , Female: 6)
• Office: $2^{\text {nd }}$ floor, Platinum Jubilee Building, 203 B. T. Road, ISI, Kolkata 700108

Theoretical and Applied Sciences Unit (TASU), North-

East Centre, Tezpur

• Head of Unit: Darpa Saurav Jyethi
• Number of Faculties: 3 (Male: 3)
• Office: Punioni, Solmara, ISI, Tezpur, Assam – 784501

Physics and Applied
Mathematics Unit (PAMU), Kolkata

• Head of Unit: Santanu K. Maiti
• Number of Faculties: 10 (Male: 9, Female: 1)
• Number of Scientific Worker: 2 (Male: 2)
• Number of Non-Scientific Worker: 3 (Male: 3)
• Number of Research Scholar: 41 (Male: 29, Female: 12)
• Office: $7^{\text {th }}$ floor, A.N. Kolmogorov Bhavan, 203, B.T. Road, ISI, Kolkata 700108

1. Geological Studies Unit (GSU), Kolkata

RESEARCH

Presently, research works in the GSU covers several different aspects of Earth Sciences:

1) Crustal Geodynamics:

• Structural, stratigraphic and metamorphic evolution of the Proterozoic mobile belts of India, with geochemical and geochronological constraints.
• Geodynamicand metamorphic evolution of the Precambrian crationic basins of the Indian shield.

2) Evolution of Sedimentary Basins with their sedimentology, paleoclimate and depositional history:

• Proterozoic Basins of India.
• Gondwana Basins of Peninsular India
• Mesozoic and Cenozoic Basins of Kutch, Sourastra, Dwarka, Jaisalmer etc.
• Neogene Siwalik Basin of Northeast India.

3) Phanerozoic Faunal Record as widows to Evolutionary and Developmental Paleobiology as observed in the –

• Mesozoic non-marine Gondwanatetrapods of India
• Cenozoic marine gastropod fauna of India
• Tertiary marine invertebrates, vertebrates of Kutch, Sourastra, Dwarka and Jaisalmer Basins of India
• Tertiary foraminifera of Kutch Basin India

4) Numerical analysis and modelling of geological data and geological systems in domains like-

• GIS based analysis of geospatial data
• Morphometric and shape analyses of fossils and other geological objects
• Evolutionary taxonomy

Patterns of the Proterozoic carbonate cycles to understand the relations between climatic change and eustatic sea-level variation

GSU offers an elective course along with field study to the B.Stat students, which encompasses basic ideas of Earth System Science. The scientists also conduct Ph.D course work for research students of the Institute, train B.Sc./M.Sc./M.Tech and B.Tech students either from the Institute or from other Universities/Institutes during their postgraduate dissertations or summer internships.

Current Areas of Research

Projects

Internally Funded Projects

NEW PROJECTS

ONGOING PROJECTS

COMPLETED PROJECTS

Externally Funded Projects

ONGOING PROJECTS

2. Physics and Applied Mathematics Unit (PAMU), Kolkata

RESEARCH

The main areas of research in PAMU are Theoretical Physics and various areas related to Applied Mathematics. Additionally, some experimental works are also being done in the Fluvial Mechanics Laboratory of this Unit. In a nutshell, the areas of Physics in which Scientists of PAMU have been working, are Astrophysics \& Astrophysics related Data Science, Cosmology \& Astroparticle Physics, High Energy Physics \& Particle Physics, Condensed Matter Physics, Mesoscopic Physics and Nanoelectronics, Physics of Complex Phenomena, Quantum Field Theory, Quantum Information Theory, Foundation of Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Thermodynamics, and many more. The areas of Applied Mathematics in which Scientists of PAMU have been working, are Nonlinear Dynamical Systems, active matter physics, Temporal Networks, Quantum Coherence as Resource Theory, Study of Quantum Channel and Quantum Cryptography. Experimental works are performed in the Fluvial Mechanics Laboratory of this Unit.

Current Areas of Research

Projects

Internally Funded Projects

ONGOING PROJECTS

Externally Funded Projects

ONGOING PROJECTS

3. Theoretical and Applied Sciences Unit (TASU), North-East Centre, Tezpur

RESEARCH

The Theoretical and Applied Sciences Unit (TASU) was established in August 2018 at the North East Centre of the Institute. The goal of the Unit is to pursue research in (a) basic theoretical sciences and (b) emerging interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary applied sciences.

The Unit is involved in research on:
Explicit evaluation of higher order convolution sums of the divisor functions; Properties of the Shimura map on some classes of modular forms of half-integral weight; Simultaneous non-vanishing of central L-values of modular forms with large level.

Bankline detection and monitoring technique near Kaziranga National Park, Crop Health Monitoring.
Air quality, Atmospheric sciences, and Climate change.

Current Areas of Research

Projects

Internally Funded Projects

ONGOING PROJECTS

Externally Funded Projects

NEW PROJECTS

3.5 Social Sciences Division (SSD)

Professor In-Charge: NILADRI SEKHAR DASH, LRU, Kolkata
Office: Ground floor, R. A. Fisher Bhavan, ISI, Kolkata-700 108

Economic Analysis Unit (EAU), Bangalore

• Head of Unit: Madhura Swaminathan
• Number of Faculties: 1 ( Female: 1)
• Number of Scientific Worker: 1 (Male: 1)
• Number of Non-Scientific Worker: 1 (Male: 1)
• Number of Research Scholar: 2 (Male: 2)
• Office: $8^{\text {th }}$ Mile, Mysore Road, RVCE Post, ISI, Bengaluru – 560059

Economic Research Unit (ERU), Kolkata

• Head of Unit: Anuj Bhowmik
• Number of Faculties: 10 (Male: 9, Female: 1)
• Number of Scientific Worker: 3 (Female: 3)
• Number of Non-Scientific Worker: 4 (Male: 3, Female: 1)
• Number of Research Scholar: 13 (Male: 10, Female: 3)
• Office: $6^{\text {th }}$ floor, S.N. Bose Bhavan, 203, B.T. Road, ISI, Kolkata-700 108

Economics and Planning Unit (EPU), Delhi

• Head of Unit: Abhiroop Mukhopadhyay
• Number of Faculties: 11 (Male: 10, Female: 1)
• Number of Scientific Worker: 1 (Male: 1)
• Number of Non-Scientific Worker: 1 (Male: 1)
• Number of Research Scholar: 31 (Male: 21, Female: 10)
• Office: Room No. 201, Faculty Block, Economics \& Planning Unit, ISI, Delhi Centre 7 SJS Sansanwal Marg Katwaria Sarai, New Delhi-110016

Linguistic Research Unit (LRU), Kolkata

• Head of Unit: Niladri Sekhar Dash
• Number of Faculties: 1 (Male: 1)
• Office: Ground floor, R. A. Fisher Bhavan, 203, B.T. Road, ISI, Kolkata-700 108

Population Studies Unit (PSU), Kolkata

• Head of Unit: Niladri S Dash
• Number of Scientific Worker: 1 (Male: 1)
• Number of Non-Scientific Worker: 2 (Male: 2)
• Office: $5^{\text {th }}$ floor, R. A. Fisher Bhavan, 203, B.T. Road, ISI, Kolkata-700 108

Sampling and Official Statistics Unit (SOSU), Kolkata

• Head of Unit: Nachiketa Chattopadhyay
• Number of Faculties: 4 (Male: 3, Female: 1)
• Number of Scientific Worker: 1 (Male: 1,)
• Number of Non-Scientific Worker: 4 (Male: 4)
• Office: $3^{\text {rd }}$ floor, C.D. Deshmukh Bhavan, 202 B.T. Road, ISI, Kolkata-700 108

Socio-Economic Research Unit (SERU), North-East Centre, Tezpur

• Head of Unit: Souvik Roy
• Number of Faculties: 2 (Male: 2)
• Office: Punioni, Solmara, ISI, Tezpur, Assam- 784501

Sociological Research Unit (SRU), Kolkata

• Head of Unit: Niladri S. Dash
• Number of Faculties: 1 (Male: 1)
• Number of Scientific Worker: 2 (Male: 2)
• Number of Non-Scientific Worker: 1 (Male: 1)
• Number of Research Scholar: 1 (Male: 1)
• Office: $5^{\text {th }}$ floor, R. A. Fisher Bhavan, 203, B.T. Road, ISI, Kolkata-700 108

1. Economic Analysis Unit (EAU), Bangalore

RESEARCH

Research Students and faculty of EAU continue to work on contemporary problems of development, especially pertaining to the rural economy. Using secondary and primary data, we have examined issues of women’s work in agriculture, impact of climate change on agricultural yields and input use, problems of incomes from rice cultivation in India and Vietnam, features of Scheduled Caste majority villages, access to rural energy and understanding tenancy. Our concerns are with understanding the overreaching problems of poverty, inequality and food insecurity in the context of the pandemic and identifying suitable policy approaches.

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2. Economics and Planning Unit (EPU), Delhi

RESEARCH

Economics and Planning Unit at Delhi comes under the Social Sciences Division of ISI. We carry out research in the areas of economic theory, applied economics and econometrics, macroeconomics, growth theory, econometric methods, time series analysis and economic statistics. Some specific areas are: welfare economics, industrial economics, game theory and applications, international economics, public economics, financial economics, agricultural economics, development economics, environmental economics, issues on living standards, gender studies and labour economics. While the quantitative and applied work involves extensive application of existing statistical and mathematical tools, substantial contribution is being made in econometric and time series methods in the areas of macro-econometrics, micro-econometrics and financial econometrics.

Economics and Planning Unit has a doctoral program in Economics and a Master’s program called Masters in Science in Quantitative Economics (MSQE). We offer courses in Microeconomics, Macroeconomics, Statistics and Econometrics, Mathematics for Economists, Economic Development, Game Theory, Macro Dynamics, International Economics, Finance, Industrial Organization, Dynamic Programming, Applied Econometrics, Time Series Econometrics, Social Choice and Political Economy, Public Economics, Intertemporal Economics, and Environmental Economics, and many more. Details about courses and our Masters and doctoral program can be found under the Academics link.

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3. Economic Research Unit (ERU), Kolkata

RESEARCH

Throughout the period, ERU has been actively involved in teaching, research and other academic activities. The scientists of the Unit participate in various teaching programs like B.Stat., M.Stat., MS(QE), ISEC and Post-Graduate Diploma programs over the year. They also teach PhD courses and supervise research of the PhD scholars. They publish their research works in various internationally acclaimed journals, conference proceedings and as book chapters. Some scientists also publish books. Their brought research areas are: Applied Econometrics, Financial Econometrics, Mechanism Design, Lexicographic Preferences, Inequality Measures, R \& D and Technology Licensing, Economics of Terrorism, Political Economy, Economics of Conflict, Gender Studies, Women Empowerment, Child Labor, Healthcare, Econophysics, General Equilibrium Theory, Public Economics, Game theory \& Decision Theory etc. The scientists also engage in internally and externally funded projects. Some lectures and seminars were organized during 2023-24.

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4. Linguistic Research Unit (LRU), Kolkata

RESEARCH

During this Academic Year (April 2023- March 2024), the Linguistic Research Unit (LRU) of the Institute has been working in the areas of Corpus Linguistics, Language processing, Computational Lexicography, Language Documentation \& Digitization, Digital Ethnography, Cognitive Linguistics, Clinical Linguistics, and Descriptive Linguistics. During this academic year (2023-2024), the LRU has published one (1) research monograph, three (3) book chapters, six (6) journal papers, and seven (7) conference papers. The faculty member has also delivered several keynote speeches, invited plenary talks, taught as guest faculty, acted as an expert in several committees and meetings conducted by govt departments, academic institutions and research organizations as well as worked as a Visiting Scientist in two universities in India and abroad. Also, he has served the different ministries and departments of the Govt. of India on several occasions. The LRU has undertaken 1 (one) external project funded by the MeitY, Govt. of India, and has collaborated with two institutions across the world for joint collaborative research and publication. It has trained several research interns in various areas of corpus linguistics, language technology, language documentation, computational lexicography, and clinical neurolinguistics. Ten (10) scholars from India and abroad visited LRU this academic year.

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5. Population Studies Unit (PSU), Kolkata

RESEARCH

RESEARCH

The department is engaged in research on various issues of demography and public health. Scientific workers of this unit are involved in various teaching, training and research activities. Some of the research areas are: fertility, mortality, migration, maternal and child health and nutrition, ageing, population projection, survival analysis in health care perspective, economic efficiency in the provision of health care, and inequality in health.

Current Areas of Research

6. Psychology Research Unit (PRU), Kolkata

RESEARCH

Unit has research, teaching and symposium activities.

Current Areas of Research

7. Sampling and Official Statistics Unit (SOSU), Kolkata

RESEARCH

Government of India and other apex organisations of Government (like Reserve Bank of India) have been sending officers for general and specialised training in regular intervals to SOSU. The research on methodologies have prompted Government to revisit the existing method of data collection in some sectors. The policy research undertaken at this department have been acclaimed highly in international forums. The publications of the scientists in reputed academic journals has earned international reputation in a very short period of time. Along with this, SOSU has been engaged in disseminating the knowledge of Statistics and promote Official Statistics teaching/training and research in backward areas of North Eastern India in the form of training programmes and workshops with the help of local Institutions.

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8. Socio-Economic Research Unit (SERU), North-East Centre, Tezpur

RESEARCH

Faculty members of SERU teach PGDSMA students and do research in Social Choice Theory, Social Choice Theory, Auction Theory, Macroeconometrics, Time Series Modeling and Panel Data Analysis

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9. Sociological Research Unit (SRU), Kolkata

RESEARCH

Sociological Research Unit (Kolkata \& Giridih) deals with multiple external and internal research projects and organized several symposia/seminars during 2023-24. Besides, the faculty member of SRU has been a resource person of the MMTTP, UGC and delivered lectures in multiple forums during the year 2023-24. Scientific Staff of SRU has been designated as a Member of the Ph.D. Advisory Committee of RKMVERI, Narendrapur, West Bengal, since 2022 till the date. The scientific staff also have been supervising the PG Students of ISI and other universities/institutes. Besides, there are scientific publications by the faculty and Non-faculty Scientific staff of SRU in 2023.

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3.6 Statistical Quality Control \& Operations Research Division (SQC\&OR)

Head: BISWABRATA PRADHAN, SQC \& OR Kolkata
Office: $7^{\text {th }}$ floor, Platinum Jubilee Building, ISI, Kolkata-700 108

Statistical Quality Control \& Operations Research Division, Bangalore

• Head of Unit: Somnath Ray
• Number of Faculties: 6 (Male: 5, Female: 1)
• Number of Non-Scientific Worker: 2 (Male: 1, Female: 1)
• Number of Research Scholar: 2 (Male: 2)
• Office: $8^{\text {th }}$ Mile, Mysore Road, ISI, Bengaluru – 560059

Statistical Quality Control \& Operations Research Division, Delhi

• Head of Unit: Samir K. Neogy (Till Feb 2024)
• Number of Faculties: 2 (Male: 1, Female: 1)
• Number of Non-Scientific Worker: 1 (Male: 1)
• Number of Research Scholar: 2 (Male: 2)
• Office: 7, S.J.S. Sansanwal marg, ISI, New Delhi – 110016

Statistical Quality Control \& Operations Research Division,
Hyderabad

• Head of Unit: S M Subhani
• Number of Faculties: 5 (Male: 5)
• Number of Scientific Worker: 1 (Female: 1)
• Number of Non-Scientific Worker: 4 (Male: 3, Female: 1)
• Office: Street No.8, Habsiguda, ISI, Hyderabad -500007

Statistical Quality Control \& Operations Research Division, Kolkata

• Head of Unit: Md. Zafar Anis
• Number of Faculties: 11 (Male: 10, Female: 1)
• Number of Non-Scientific Worker: 3 (Male: 2, Female: 1)
• Number of Research Scholar: 8 (Male: 8)
• Office: $6^{\text {th }}$ Floor, ANK Bhavan, 203 B. T. Road, ISI, Kolkata – 700108

Statistical Quality Control \& Operations Research Division, Pune

• Head of Unit: Subrata Rath
• Number of Faculties: 1 (Male: 1)
• Number of Non-Scientific Worker: 2 (Male: 2)
• Office: B-Wing, $3^{\text {rd }}$ Floor, B-9, Anandavan Co-op. Hsg. Soc. Near Gandhi Bhavan, S. No: 36, Kothrud, ISI, Pune- 411038

Statistical Quality Control \& Operations Research Division, Mumbai

• Head of Unit: Sagar Sikdar
• Number of Faculties: 2 (Male: 2)
• Number of Non-Scientific Worker: 1 (Male: 1)
• Office: $3^{\text {rd }}$ Floor, Pratishtha Bhavan (Old CGO Building), 101, Maharshi Karve Road, ISI, Mumbai – 400020

1. Statistical Quality Control \& Operations Research Unit (SQC\&OR), Bangalore

RESEARCH

This unit concentrates on

• Teaching
• Training, and
• Consultancy
  in the areas of Statistics and Statistical Quality Control

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2. Statistical Quality Control \& Operations Research Unit (SQC\&OR), Chennai

RESEARCH

Research areas are in Stochastic games, Linear Complementarity and Completely Mixed games, Process Control and Evaluation for Univariate and Bivariate Zero-inflated Processes. The unit also carries out training and consultancy activities in MRF Limited and Training at Apollo tyres.

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3. Statistical Quality Control \& Operations Research Unit (SQC\&OR), Delhi

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4. Statistical Quality Control \& Operations Research Unit (SQC\&OR), Hyderabad

RESEARCH

SQC \& OR Unit, Hyderabad has conducted various training programs such as Six Sigma Green Belt, Six Sigma Black Belt, Business Analytics, Optimization Tools, etc. to the industrial executives as well as individual aspirants. Three research papers were published by Dr. Sujeet Kumar Singh in the reputed journals like Annals of Operations Research, Benchmarking, etc. Number of research papers were submitted for publication awaiting for acceptance. Some of our faculty members have delivered invited talks/lectures at various institutions like IITs, VIT, etc.

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5. Statistical Quality Control \& Operations Research Unit (SQC\&OR), Kolkata RESEARCH

The faculty members of SQC\&OR unit, Kolkata are engaged in teaching in M. Tech (QROR), B. Stat and MS(QE) programs, research in various topics of quality, reliability and operations research and providing consultancy in different industries in India and overseas. During April 2023 – March 2024 there are 32 journal publications (some of which were collaborative works with other SQC \& OR units). Five book chapters were also published. The research topics include statistical process control of zero-inflated process data and ordinal data, process capability indices, reliability, extropy of coherent and mixed systems, lean supply chain management, PCI for auto correlated data, reverse logistic process/ operations, zero-sum stochastic games, complementary problems, among others.

During the period under review, two internally funded projects and eight externally funded projects have been completed or are in progress; eight Research Scholars were working under guidance of the faculties or undergoing course works; three Research Associates and one Visiting Scientist carried out research works with the faculties. During the period, Dr. M. Z. Anis was elected as a member of the International Statistical Institute; Prof. B. Pradhan continued to be Associate Editor of the Journal of the Indian Society for Probability and Statistics; Dr. P. Das worked as panel member in a conference; Dr. P. Das and Dr. B. Pradhan chaired two sessions in two conferences; Dr. A. K. Das and Dr. B. Pradhan delivered three invited talks.

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6. Statistical Quality Control \& Operations Research Unit (SQC\&OR), Mumbai

RESEARCH

SQC \& OR Unit, ISI, Mumbai commenced its operations from 1965. It has served a wide variety of organizations, both Manufacturing and Service, across the country through training and consultancy in the fields of Statistics and Operations Research.

The unit activities can be described in the following categories.

• Consultancy and project assignments
• Conducting in plant and general Training

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7. Statistical Quality Control \& Operations Research Unit (SQC\&OR), Pune RESEARCH

The unit activities can be described in the following categories;
Consultancy and project assignments
Conducting in-plant and general Training
Teaching and training.
SQC \& OR Unit, ISI, Pune has served a wide variety of organizations, both Manufacturing and Service, across the country through training and consultancy in the fields of Statistics and Operations Research like Six Sigma, Lean Six Sigma, Design of Experiment, Statistical Process Control etc.

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