Shyamaprasad Mukherjee

He was born in Kidderpore, Kolkata, India. In 1954 he appeared in his school final (10th grade) examination and was ranked second in the state of West Bengal. He received an M.Sc. in Statistics in 1960 and Ph.D. in Statistics in 1967 from University of Calcutta. After a short stint of teaching in the Presidency College, Calcutta, he joined the University of Calcutta as a lecturer in Statistics in 1964.

Prof Mukherjee has done extensive research work in Applied Probability, Parametric and Bayesian Estimation, Reliability Analysis, Quality Management, and Operations Research; published more than sixty research papers and review and expository articles; and supervised twenty one Ph. D. students. He was the President of the Operational Research Society of India as well as of the Association of Asian-Pacific Operational Research Societies (APORS).^[5] He was also a Vice-President of the International Federation of Operational Research Societies (IFORS).^{[citation needed]} He has been the President ^[6] of the Calcutta Statistical Association. He was the Chairman of the Committee on Statistical Methods for Quality and Reliability of the Bureau of Indian Standards. He is the president of the Indian Association for Productivity, Quality and Reliability (IAPQR) ^[7] as well as the editor of IAPQR Transactions and is associated with the editorial work of several other journals.

• Applied probability
• Parametric and Bayesian estimation
• Reliability
• Quality management
• Operations research

• Graduate Employment and Higher Education in West Bengal^[8]
• Frontiers in Probability and Statistics^[9]
• Quality: Domains and Dimensions^[10]
• Statistical Methods in Social Science Research^[11]
• A Guide to Research Methodology: An Overview of Research Problems, Tasks and Methods^[12]
• Decision-making: Concepts, Methods and Techniques^[13]

• Prof P V Sukhatme Award for Senior Statisticians June 2012^[14][15]
• P C Mahalanobis Birth Centenary Award January 2000^[3]
• Fellow of ISPS 2012^[3]