Sourav Chatterjee
Sourav Chatterjee | |
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Chatterjee in 2010 | |
| Born | 26 November 1979 Kolkata, West Bengal, India |
| 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) 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. He has received a Sloan Fellowship in mathematics, Tweedie Award, 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.