Sudipto Banerjee

Sudipto Banerjee
Born (1972-10-23) October 23, 1972 (age 51)
Alma materPresidency College, Kolkata
Indian Statistical Institute
University of Connecticut, Storrs
Known forBayesian hierarchical modeling, Gaussian process, spatial data analysis, Wombling
AwardsMortimer Spiegelman Award, ASA Outstanding Statistical Application Award, George W. Snedecor Award
Scientific career
FieldsStatistics
InstitutionsUniversity of Minnesota, Twin Cities
University of California, Los Angeles
ThesisMultivariate Spatial Modelling in a Bayesian Setting (2000)
Doctoral advisorAlan E. Gelfand
Doctoral students"Mathematics Genealogy".

Sudipto Banerjee (born October 23, 1972) is an Indian-American statistician best known for his work on Bayesian hierarchical modeling and inference for spatial data analysis. He is Professor of Biostatistics and Senior Associate Dean in the School of Public Health at the University of California, Los Angeles. He served as the Chair of the Department of Biostatistics at UCLA from 2014 through 2023. He served as the elected President of the International Society for Bayesian Analysis in 2022.