Nalini Ravishanker

Nalini Ravishanker is an Indian statistician interested in time series analysis and applications of statistics to actuarial science, business, and transportation. She is a professor of statistics at the University of Connecticut,[1] co-editor-in-chief of International Statistical Review,[2][3] and president of the International Society for Business and Industrial Statistics for 2015–2017.[4]

Ravishanker earned a bachelor's degree in statistics in 1981 from Presidency College, Chennai. She completed her PhD in 1987 from the New York University Stern School of Business. After a temporary position at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center she joined the Connecticut faculty in 1989.[1]

With Dipak K. Dey, Ravishanker is the author of A First Course in Linear Model Theory (Chapman & Hall, 2001; 2nd ed., 2017).[5] She is also one of the editors of Handbook of Discrete-Valued Time Series (Chapman & Hall, 2015).

Ravishanker is a fellow of the American Statistical Association and an elected member of the International Statistical Institute.[1] She was named to the 2021 class of Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.[6]

References

  1. ^ a b c Curriculum vitae, February 2016, retrieved 25 October 2017
  2. ^ Soyer, Refik; Ruggeri, Fabrizio; Ieva, Francesca; Ekin, Tahir (2018), "International Statistical Review", International Statistical Review, 86 (3): 379–402, doi:10.1111/(ISSN)1751-5823, hdl:11311/1087065
  3. ^ Chambers, Raymond (2016), "Nalini Ravishanker joins Raymond Chambers as co-Editor-in-Chief of the International Statistical Review", International Statistical Review, 84 (1): 1, doi:10.1111/insr.12175, S2CID 124649067
  4. ^ Executive & Council, International Society for Business and Industrial Statistics, retrieved 25 October 2017
  5. ^ Morgan, J. P. (2003), "A First Course in Linear Model Theory", Book Review, Journal of the American Statistical Association, 98 (463): 766–767, doi:10.1198/jasa.2003.s287, S2CID 219594127
  6. ^ 2021 Fellows, American Association for the Advancement of Science, retrieved 1 February 2022