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Sourav Chatterjee | |
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Born | Kolkata, India | 26 November 1979
Alma mater | Indian Statistical Institute Stanford University |
Awards | Sloan Research Fellowship (2007) Rollo Davidson Prize (2010) Doeblin Prize (2012) Loève Prize (2013) Infosys Prize (2020) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Mathematics |
Institutions | Stanford University University of California at Berkeley New York University (Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences) |
Doctoral advisor | Persi Diaconis |
Sourav Chatterjee FRS (born 26 November 1979)[1] is an Indian Bengali mathematician from West Bengal, specializing in mathematical statistics and probability theory. Chatterjee is credited with work on the study of fluctuations in random structures, concentration and super-concentration inequalities, Poisson and other non-normal limits, first-passage percolation, Stein's method and spin glasses.[2][3] He has received a Sloan Fellowship in mathematics, Tweedie Award,[4] Rollo Davidson Prize, Doeblin Prize, Loève Prize, and Infosys Prize in mathematical sciences. He was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 2014.