Sat Gupta elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association

Dr. Sat Gupta (Mathematics and Statistics) has been elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA). He received this highest professional honor in the field of statistics for important research contributions in the area of randomized response methodology, for his distinguished service to ASA through his leadership role in the North Carolina Chapter of ASA; for distinguished service to the theory and practice of statistics by founding and editing the Journal of Statistical Theory and Practice; and for exemplary statistical consulting, both on-campus and off-campus.

He has bagged several other awards in his illustrious career. These include the Senior University-wide Research Excellence Award, and the Senior College of Arts and Sciences Teaching Excellence Award at University of North Carolina Greensboro; Outstanding Faculty Award and the Outstanding Teacher/Scholar Award from the University of Southern Maine; the Distinguished Service Award for the Cause of Statistics given by the North Carolina Chapter of the American Statistical Association; and the Sankhyiki Bhushan Award from The Indian Society of Agricultural Statistics. He has been the founding Editor-in-Chief since 2007 of the prestigious research journal ‘Journal of Statistical Theory and Practice’ published by Springer.

He has provided research guidance to students at all levels from undergraduate to PhD, including 20 master’s students, 8 undergraduate students, and 10 PhD students so far. His research has been funded by major US funding agencies like the National Science Foundation, National Institute of Health, Mathematical Association of America, American Statistical Association, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

Dr Gupta has successfully applied his knowledge of the subject of Statistics in providing ‘Statistical Consultancy’ to both on-campus and off-campus communities. He has provided testimony in many court cases as an expert witness.