Ramanathan Gnanadesikan

Ramanathan Gnanadesikan
Born	(1932-11-02)2 November 1932 Madras, British India
Died	6 July 2015(2015-07-06) (aged 82) Vineyard Haven, Massachusetts, United States
Alma mater	University of Madras University of North Carolina
Awards	2009 Jerome Sacks Award for Cross-Disciplinary Research
Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics
Institutions	Bell Labs, Bellcore, Rutgers
Doctoral advisor	Samarendra Nath Roy

Ramanathan Gnanadesikan (2 November 1932 – 6 July 2015) was an Indian statistician, known for his work in multivariate data analysis and leadership in the field. He received his Ph.D. at the University of North Carolina and headed research groups in statistics at Bell Laboratories and Bellcore. He was a fellow of American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Statistical Association, Institute of Mathematical Statistics and Royal Statistical Society, and elected member of the International Statistical Institute. He served as President of Institute of Mathematical Statistics and the International Association for Statistical Computing, the latter of which he helped found.^[1]