Sudipto Banerjee

Sudipto Banerjee
Banerjee in 2015
Born	(1972-10-23) October 23, 1972 (age 49) Kolkata, India
Alma mater	Presidency College, Kolkata, India; Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata; University of Connecticut, Storrs
Known for	Bayesian hierarchical modeling, Gaussian process, spatial data analysis, Wombling
Awards	Mortimer Spiegelman Award, ASA Outstanding Statistical Application Award, George W. Snedecor Award
Scientific career
Fields	Statistics
Institutions	University of California, Los Angeles, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Thesis	Multivariate Spatial Modelling in a Bayesian Setting
Doctoral advisor	Alan E. Gelfand

Sudipto Banerjee (born October 23, 1972) is an Indian-American statistician best known for his work on Bayesian hierarchical modeling and inference for spatial data analysis. He is Professor and Chair of the Department of Biostatistics in the School of Public Health at the University of California, Los Angeles and is the current President of the International Society for Bayesian Analysis.

Early life and education

Banerjee was born in Kolkata, India. He attended Presidency College, Kolkata for his undergraduate studies, and the Indian Statistical Institute, graduating with an M.STAT in 1996. Subsequently, he moved to the United States and obtained an MS and PhD in Statistics from the University of Connecticut in 2000,^[1] where he was introduced to Bayesian statistics and hierarchical modeling by Alan Enoch Gelfand^[1] who had been instrumental in the development of the Gibbs sampler and Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithms in Bayesian statistics.

Career

Banerjee joined the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities in 2000 as an Assistant Professor of Biostatistics and was associated with the School of Public Health for 14 years. There he worked on a number of problems and wrote numerous articles on spatial statistics, developing theory and methods related to Bayesian modeling and inference for geographic data with wide-ranging applications in public and environmental health sciences, ecology, forestry, real estate economics and agronomy. In 2014, Banerjee joined the Department of Biostatistics in the School of Public Health at UCLA as Professor and Chair of Biostatistics.^[2]

Awards and honors

Banerjee has received many honors, including the Abdel El-Shaarawi Award from The International Environmetric Society (TIES), the Mortimer Spiegelman Award from the American Public Health Association and the George W. Snedecor Award from the Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies (COPSS), elected membership of the International Statistical Institute, elected fellowships in the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS), the American Statistical Association (ASA), the International Society for Bayesian Analysis and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS),^[3] a Distinguished Achievement Medal from the ASA's Section on Statistics and the Environment, and the ASA's Outstanding Statistical Application Award.^[2]

Selected works

• Banerjee, Sudipto; Carlin, Bradley P.; Gelfand, Alan E. (2014), Hierarchical Modeling and Analysis for Spatial Data, Second Edition, Monographs on Statistics and Applied Probability (2nd ed.), Chapman and Hall/CRC, ISBN 9781439819173 
• Banerjee, Sudipto; Roy, Anindya (2014), Linear Algebra and Matrix Analysis for Statistics, Texts in Statistical Science (1st ed.), Chapman and Hall/CRC, ISBN 978-1420095388 
•  , Wikidata Q106095870
• Banerjee, S.; Gelfand, A.E. , Wikidata Q24631027
• Jin, X.; Banerjee, S.; Carlin, B.P. , Wikidata Q33730210
• Banerjee, S.; Gelfand, A.E.; Finley, A.O.; Sang, H. , Wikidata Q33502739
• Datta, A.; Banerjee, S.; Finley, A.O.; Gelfand, A.E. , Wikidata Q55401486

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