Mahbanoo Tata

Tata came to Iran after five years of teaching at Michigan State University and spent two years as a statistics professor at Sharif University of Technology. Thereafter, over the course of the following 16 years, she established statistics as a subject at the Institute of Education, Statistics and Informatics, the Higher School of Computer Planning and Application, Iran Azad University, and Allameh Tabatabai University.^[4]

In 1989, she moved to Kerman to work in the statistics department of the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman. She oversaw the same department for many years.^[3]

Tata was a member of scientific organisations including the International Institute of Statistics, the Iranian Society of Mathematicians, and the Iranian Society of Statistics. She was named as "Mother of Statistics of Iran" for all the contributions she made to Iran's statistical expertise.^[3]

Mahbanoo Tata died on 7 August 2023, at the age of 81.^[5]