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Indian mathematician
Dr. Rajat Subhra Hazra
is an Indian mathematician specialising in
probability theory
. He was awarded the
Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology
, the highest science award in India, for the year 2020 in mathematical science category.
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He is affiliated to the Mathematical Institute of Leiden University, the Netherlands from 2021.
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Prior to that he was affiliated to Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata. Dr. Hazra has a very broad range of research interests including extreme value theory, regular variation, random matrices, free probability, Gaussian free fields, branching random walks, membrane models, random graphs, etc.
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He is well known for his out of the box analysis of day to day events. A recent example came into limelight when he asked an exam question with
Covfefe
, a word that featured in US President Donald Trump’s tweet for random sequence of letters.
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He is an elected Fellow of
Indian Academy of Sciences
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