Bimal Kumar Roy

Bimal Kumar Roy Bengali: বিম কুমার রায় is an Ex-Director of the Indian Statistical Institute. He is a cryptologist from the Cryptology Research Group of the Applied Statistics Unit of ISI, Kolkata.[1] He received a Ph.D. in Combinatorics and Optimization in 1982 from the University of Waterloo[2] under the joint supervision of Ronald C. Mullin and Paul Jacob Schellenberg.[3]

Currently he is working on Combinatorics, and application of Statistics in Cryptology and Design of Experiments.[4] In 2015, Prof Roy was awarded Padma Shri, India's fourth highest civilian honour, recognizing his accomplishments and contribution to education.

References

  1. "ASU Faculty List". Indian Statistical Institute. Retrieved 12 February 2012.
  2. "Ph.D. Recipients". Combinatorics and Optimization Unit, University of Waterloo. Retrieved 12 February 2012.
  3. Bimal Kumar Roy at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  4. "Research interests". Indian Statistical Institute. Retrieved 2013-09-26.
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