Visiting Fellow

sankaran.p.g@gmail.com

Prof. Sankaran is a former Vice Chancellor of the Cochin University of Science and Technology (CUSAT). He also served as the Pro-Vice Chancellor, Head of the Department of Statistics, CUSAT and as Director of the Centre for Population Studies. He is a recipient of the Distinguished Statistician Award of Indian Society for Probability and Statistics and Young Researcher Award of the International Indian Statistical Association. He received BOYSCAST fellowship of Department of Science and Technology, Government of India in 2000. Dr. Sankaran has published more than 175 research papers of which 135 are in international journals. He has already guided 13 research students for their doctoral degrees. HE served as a Visiting scientist at many leading Indian and International institutes including Indian Statistical Institute, (Kolkata and New Delhi), University of Dalhousie, Canada and University of Waterloo, Canada. He is a Member of the International Statistical Institute, Netherlands; American Mathematical Society, U.S.A.; Institute of Mathematical Statistics, U.S.A.; International Indian Statistical Association, U.S.A.; International Society for Business and Industrial Statistics, U.S.A.. He is a reviewer of many international journals such as American Mathematical Review, U.S.A., Multivariate Analysis, Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability Letters, Statistics, Communications in Statistics- Theory and Methods, Statistical Papers, Journal of Japan Statistical Association, Journal of Applied Statistics, Journal of Indian Statistical Association, Bulletin of Calcutta Statistical Association.