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Twenty-Third Pfizer Colloquium Guest of Honor & Featured Speaker Professor Pranab K. Sen |
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Professor
Pranab Kumar Sen is
the Cary C. Boshamer Distinguished Professor of Biostatistics in the Department
of Biostatistics, Gillings School of Public Health, McGavran-Greenberg
Hall, University of North Carolina (UNC), Chapel Hill. He
received the B.Sc. (1955)
and M.Sc. (1957) degrees
from Calcutta University, India and ranked first class first in
Statistics. He received the Doctor
of Philosophy in Science (Statistics) degree in 1962 from
Calcutta University. Professor Sen was awarded
(i) S.S. Bose Gold Medal (1955)
and (ii) Calcutta University
Gold Medal (1957) in statistics for the best performance in the
B.Sc. and M.Sc. examinations, (iii) Jubilee
Scholarship (1955-57), (iv) Calcutta University and Government
of India Research Training Scholarship (1958-61). He was the NSF-CBMS
Lecturer in Statistics in 1983 hosted by the University of Iowa,
Iowa City. Professor
Sen’s honors and awards are simply too many to enumerate them all. He
received the Charles University’s Prague Medal for outstanding
contributions to Statistics (1988), McGavran Teaching Award from School of Public Health, UNC (1996), Commemoration
Medal, Czech Union of Physicists and Mathematicians (1998), Senior
Noether Scholar Award from the American Statistical Association
(ASA) in 2002 for his lifelong achievement in research and
teaching nonparametrics. In 2010, the ASA presented the prestigious Samuel
S. Wilks Award (Medal) to him for his outstanding contributions
to statistics and biostatistics research and exceptional service in
mentoring doctoral students. In 2011, the International
Indian Statistical Association (IISA) conferred on him a Lifetime
Achievement Award. In 2012, UNC Gillings School of Global Public
Health’s John E. Larsh, Jr. Mentoring Award was presented to him. Professor
Sen was conferred the Honorary
D.Sc. degree in 2012 by his Alma mater (University of Calcutta).
P.K.
Sen Visiting Professorship (Biostatistics and Statistics) at UNC has
been created by his family and friends which was approved with
matching State fund from UNC Board of Trustees. This professorship began
operating effective 2011. The Sen-family also created Kalyani
Sen Scholarship for International Students in UNC Biostatistics effective
2011 in the memory of Professor Sen’s mother. PROFESSIONAL
EXPERIENCES: Professor
of Biostatistics & Statistics, University of North Carolina, Chapel
Hill (July 1970-), Cary C. Boshamer Professor, University of North
Carolina, Chapel Hill (January 1982-), Lifetime Adjunct Professor,
Indian Statistical Institute (1993-), Adjunct Professor, Monash
University, Victoria, Australia (2011-2016), Associate Professor
(1967-70), Visiting Associate Professor (1966-67) and Visiting Assistant
Professor (1965-66), UNC, Visiting Assistant Professor of Statistics,
University of California, Berkeley (1964-65), Lecturer of Statistics,
Calcutta University, India (1961-64), Distinguished Visiting Professor
at (i) Albert-Ludwig University, Germany (1974-75), (ii) Bowling Green
State University, Ohio (1997 Spring), and (iii) UNDP-TOKTEN visitor:
India (1990-91). . MEMBERSHIP TO
PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES AND HONORS: Fellow:
Institute of Mathematical Statistics (elected 1968) Fellow:
American Statistical Association (elected 1969) Member:
International Statistical Institute (elected 1973) Honorary
Fellow: International Indian Statistical Association (elected 2000) Life
Member: Calcutta Statistical Association (President 2003-2006) EDITORIAL ACTIVITIES: Member of
the Editorial boards of (i) the Journal of the American Statistical
Association (1973-79), Book review Section (1974-1983), (ii) Journal of
Multivariate Analysis (1970-1977), (iii) Communications in Statistics,
Series A (1972-1983) and Calcutta Statistical Association Bulletin
(1981-). Advisory editor (i) Brazilian Journal of Statistics and
Probability, (ii) Pakistan Journal of Statistics, (iii) Metron, (iv)
Japan Mathematical Journal, and (v) Chilean Journal of Statistics (2009-
), (vi) Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference (Joint
Editor-in-Chief 1980-1983, Coordinating Editor 1989-1992, Advisory
Editor 1993--2000), Sequential Analysis (Founding Editor 1981-1995,
Associate Editor 1996-2003), and Coordinating Editor for Statistics and
Decisions (1982-2002), and Editor-in-Chief, Sankhya (2007-2011). CONSULTATION AND
RELATED EXPERIENCE: Professor
Sen has been a statistical consultant to the National Heart, Lung, and
Blood Institute, N.I.H., Bethesda for its
project on Arteriosclerosis.
Developed, among others, time-sequential statistical procedures in
clinical trials, adopted by the Department of Biostatistics, University
of North Carolina, Chapel Hill for the omnibus project on human LIPIDS
and their impact on the risk of heart attacks. Have been a
statistical consultant to the National Reye's
Syndrome Foundation on the RSSG project of the Medical College of
Virginia, Richmond, where also the time-sequential procedures are being
advocated. Advisory Board on Clinical Trials, Glaxo Inc., R.T.P., N.C.
(1989-1991). UNDP - TOKTEN Project, India (1990-91). RESEARCH: Professor
Sen has authored, coauthored, and edited more than 26
books and monographs and has also supervised and mentored 84 Ph.D.
students, practically in all areas of statistical science. His first publication dates
back to 1958 and ever since he has vigorously continued to write
fundamental research papers in many areas including probability theory,
large-sample theory, nonparametrics, multivariate analysis, clinical
trials, sequential analysis, reliability analysis, biostatistics, and
bioinformatics. He is one of the very rare breed of exceptionally deep
scholars who has made breakthrough contributions in applied statistical
sciences on numerous occasions. His list of major publications in
leading international journals includes more than 600 items and too many
of them are regarded as genuine classics. He has traveled to nearly all
corners of the globe multiple times. To
glance at Professor Sen’s full cv, one go and explore the following
links: http://www.sph.unc.edu/?option=com_profiles&Itemid=6138&profileAction=ProfDetail&pid=704289903 http://www.sph.unc.edu/images/stories/cv_storage/704289903_cv.pdf |
