Educational Background
B.Sc. (Statistics), University of Madras, India, in 1976
M.Sc. (Statistics), University of Madras, India, in 1978
Ph.D. (Statistics), Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India, in 1981

Positions Held

McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada

• Post-doctoral Fellow, 1982-1983

• University Research Fellow, 1985-1986

• Assistant Professor, 1986-1989

• Associate Professor, 1989-1995

• Coordinator of the Graduate Program in Statistics (for three years from 1993-1996)

• Professor, 1995-2015

• Distinguished University Professor, 2015-

Post-doctoral Fellow, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada, 1983
Vice-President, International Indian Statistical Association (for two years from July 2001-June 2003)
President, International Indian Statistical Association (for one year from July 2004-June 2005)
Past-President, International Indian Statistical Association (for one year from July 2005-June 2006)
Adjunct Professor, National Central University, Taiwan (beginning 2007)
Distinguished Visiting University Professor, Ren-min University, Beijing, China (beginning 2009)
Distinguished Visiting University Professor, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (beginning 2010)
(For more information, please visit King Saud University website at http://www.ksu.edu.sa
For my recent visit there and some photos, please check http://ksu.edu.sa/Pages/default.aspx)

Visiting Positions Held

Visiting Faculty, University of Guelph, Guelph, Canada, 1984--1985
Visiting Associate Professor, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada, 1992-1993
Visiting Professor, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada, 1996
Visiting Professor, Ain-Shams University, Cairo, Egypt, 1999
Visiting Professor, Universite de Le Havre, Le Havre, France, 2001
Visiting Professor, Ankara University, Ankara, Turkey, 2002
Visiting Professor, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, 2003
Visiting Distinguished Eugene Lukacs Professor, Bowling Green State University, Ohio, USA, 2005
Visiting Professor, University of Texas, San Antonio, Texas, USA, 2006
Visiting Distinguished Santalo Lecturer, Universidad Complutense Madrid, Spain, 2006
Visiting Professor, National Central University, Taiwan, 2007
Visiting Professor, Ren-Min University, Beijing, China, 2007
Visiting Professor, University of Berne, Berne, Switzerland, 2008
Visiting Professor, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy, 2009
Visiting Professor, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, 2009.

Honors Accorded and Membership

Elected Member of the International Statistical Institute in 1992
Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 1995
Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics in 2006
Fellow of the Turkish Statistical Association in 2003
Distinguished Eugene Lukacs Professor at Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio, in 2005
Distinguished Santalo Lecturer at Universidad Complutense Madrid, Madrid, Spain, 2006
Elected Honorary Member of the Greek Statistical Institute in 2007
Don Owen Award winner, awarded by the American Statistical Association in 2008
McMaster Students Union Teaching Award on five occasions, three from the Faculty of Science, one from the Faculty of Engineering, and one from the Arts & Science Program
Member of the American Statistical Association, Institute of Mathematical Statistics, Statistical Society of Canada, American Society for Quality Control, International Indian Statistical Association.
 

Editorial Positions
At present:

Editor-in-Chief for Communications in Statistics-Theory and Methods
Editor-in-Chief for Communications in Statistics-Simulation and Computation
Editor-in-Chief for Communications in Statistics-Case Studies, Data Analysis and Applications
Associate Editor for Journal of Probability and Statistical Science
Associate Editor for Methodology and Computing in Applied Probability 
Associate Editor for Metrika
Associate Editor for Test
Editor-in-Chief for the Revised Edition of Encyclopedia of Statistical Sciences published by John Wiley & Sons, Hoboken, New Jersey
Editor-in-Chief for the Series Statistics for Industry and Technology of books and volumes published by Birkhäuser, Boston.
Editor-in-Chief for the Series Handbooks on Methods and Applications of Statistics published by John Wiley & Sons, Hoboken, New Jersey
Editor-in-Chief for the Series Statistics of books and monographs published by Taylor & Francis, Philadelphia.

In the past:
Associate Editor for Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference
Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Reliability
Associate Editor for Naval Research Logistics
Associate Editor for Communications in Statistics
Associate Editor for Computational Statistics & Data Analysis
Associate Editor for Metrika
Associate Editor for Selected Tables in Mathematical Statistics
Associate Editor for Statistical Methodology
 

Graduate Supervision
M.Sc. Project/Thesis Supervision - 50+(Not counted since 2010) (not listed)
Ph.D. Thesis Supervision - 51 (listed below)