Jyotiprasad Medhi

Jyotiprasad Medhi was a Professor and Emeritus Professor of statistics at Gauhati University and Institute of Advanced Study in Science and Technology.[1][2][3] Son of Binandi Chandra Medhi and Kadambari Medhi, Jyotiprasad was the maternal grandson of prominent linguist, writer and essayist Kaliram Medhi. Versatile Assamese short story writer and Professor of Physics and later a lifetime associate at Assam Engineering College Surendra Nath Medhi better known by his pen name Saurav Kumar Chaliha was his uncle as Chaliha, though younger to him was the half brother of his mother Kadambari Medhi.[4]

Jyotiprasad Medhi
BornJuly 1 1924
Kamrup, Assam, India
Died3 February 2017
Guwahati, India
NationalityIndian
Other namesBhagawati Da
CitizenshipIndian
Alma mater
Known forQueueing theory, Stochastic process, Statistics
Spouse(s)Prity Medhi
Children4
Scientific career
FieldsStatistics
InstitutionsGauhati University, Institute of Advanced Study in Science and Technology
ThesisProblems d'estination statisque relatifs a certains processus stationnares de second ordre (1956)
Doctoral advisorRobert Fortet
Other academic advisorsM S Bartlett
Doctoral studentsTata Subba Rao
InfluencedGautam Biswas

Work and education

Medhi started his schooling in Dibrugarh and in 1940 he passed Matriculation from Dibrugarh Government High School.[5] Post Matriculation, he did his gradguation study in Cotton University (erstwhile Cotton College) in 1946 and was a Gold medallist in BSc with Honours in Mathematics. There he received two Gold Medals viz., Sudmerson Gold Medal and Rajanikant Barat Gold Medal.[3][5] Medhi did his MSc in Pure Mathematics from Calcutta University, and got the Debendra Nath Gangopadhaya Gold medal for record marks obtained and the Post graduate First class first Gold medal in 1948.[5] In 1952, he took a loan of Rupees Ten thousand from Govt of Assam and moved to England to pursue Master of Statistics (MStat) from the University of Manchester and completed in 1954. He worked with M S Bartlett in the University of Manchester in 1955 on the Topic 'Time Series Analysis'.[6] Thereon Medhi moved to France to study for his DSc in the University of Paris in 1956 under the supervision of Robert Fortet.[7] He had also taken a Diploma in French Language with mention 'Honorable'. Its worthy to mention that he had written his Doctoral Thesis in French Language.[5]

Medhi joined as a Lecturer of Statistics at Cotton University erstwhile Cotton College in 1948.[3] However, in the same year Gauhati University was established and he was invited to work as Professor in Gauhati University. Accepting the invitation, he joined the Department of Mathematics and Statistics as a Lecturer.[5] In between his tenure, he had taken MS degree from England and DSc from Paris.[5][3] Medhi returned to Gauhati University where he became a Professor and was the Head of the department of Statistics till he retired in 1985.[8] Earlier in Gauhati University, both Mathematics and Statistics were in a common department, however, under the able leadership of Prof Medhi, Statistics became a full fledged individual department. In 1987, two years after retirement, he was entitled the honour of Professor Emeritus at the same university and remained so until his demise in 2017.[9] Under his guidance, several students got Doctoral degrees and Tata Subba Rao is the first among them. From Southern India, Subba Rao had come to Assam to pursue his research under Prof Medhi and later he had joined Manchester University as a Professor.[5] In 1979, he established the 'Population Research Centre' and served as a Director. He played a prominent role in shaping the newly formed Institute of Advanced Study in Science and Technology, Assam, IASST by serving as Director.[5]


Publications

Medhi published many articles in peer reviewed international and national journals.[10] He also published two books on stochastic processes each with over 500 citations.[11][12][13][3]

Awards and honours

The J Medhi memorial lecture is annually held in the Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati at the Department of Mathematics.[14] In 2016, Medhi was conferred an Honorary doctorate DSc by Tezpur University.

References
  1. Deka, Priyankush (February 17, 2018). "Dr. Jyoti Prasad Medhi: An Eminent Assamese Mathematician and my Thoughts".
  2. Desk, Sentinel Digital. "Dr Jyoti Prasad Medhi breathes his last - Sentinelassam". The Sentinel Assam.
  3. "World famous statistician Prof JP Medhi passes away". The Assam Tribune Online. 3 February 2017.
  5. Deepankar Medhi (1017). Jyotiprasad Medhi—A Memorial (PDF).
  6. Bartlett, M. S.; Medhi, J. (1955). "On the Efficiency of Procedures for Smoothing Periodograms from Time Series with Continuous Spectra". Biometrika. 42 (1/2): 143–150. doi:10.2307/2333431 – via JSTOR.
  7. "CV". www.genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu. Retrieved 2020-07-10.
  8. "World famous statistician Prof JP Medhi passes away". The Assam Tribune Online.
  9. Desk, Sentinel Digital. "Dr Jyoti Prasad Medhi breathes his last - Sentinelassam". The Sentinel Assam.
  10. "Jyotiprasad Medhi, D.Sc. (Hon.), Dr-es-Sc(Paris) - Google Scholar". scholar.google.co.in.
  11. Medhi, Jyotiprasad (July 10, 1994). Stochastic Processes. New Age International. ISBN 9788122405491 – via Google Books.
  12. "STOCHASTIC MODELS IN QUEUEING THEORY" (PDF). scholar.google.co.in. Retrieved 2020-07-10.
  13. "Google Scholar page on Jyotiprasad Medhi". Google Scholar.
  14. "J. Medhi Memorial Lecture". www.iitg.ac.in.
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