VADODARA: A professor with the Department of Statistics at
MS University has been conferred with 'Distinguished Statistician Award' during the recently-held 37th annual convention of the
Indian Society for Probability and Statistics (ISPS).
Professor K Muralidharan bagged the award for his outstanding contribution towards the promotion and advancement of probability and statistics.
Professor Muralidharan is the former head of department of statistics and had served as director of Population Research Centre at the university.
Muralidharan also works as an adjunct faculty at IIT Gandhinagar.
Professor Muralidharan has about 27 years of teaching and research experience and has guided about six research students for doctorate degree.
He has more than 110 research publications in international and national journals. His research interests are in the field of statistical inference, applied stochastic point processes, reliability and life testing, industrial statistics, quality and six sigma.
He has won number of awards and fellowships including the Commonwealth Academic Fellowship sponsored by the British Council, UK in 2011.
Recently, Muralidharan was awarded the best science teacher award in the mathematical sciences by Gujarat Science Academy, Ahmedabad.
He was also awarded the young emerging future leader of quality and reliability by Society for Reliability Engineering, Quality and Operations Management, New Delhi in 2012.
Professor K Muralidharan
