Kantilal Mardia

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Kantilal Vardichand ("Kanti") Mardia (1935-) is a world-renowned statistician specializing in directional data, multivariate analysis, geostatistics. and the statistics of shape and form.

He was born in Sirohi, Rajasthan, India and now resides and works in Leeds

Mardia has degress from

• Ismail Yusuf College –University of Bombay (1955)
• University of Poona (1961)
• University of Rajasthan (1965)
• University of Newcastle (1967, 1973)

His career has taken him to

• Institute of Science, Bombay
• University of Hull
• University of Leeds

He was instrumental in founding the Centre of Medical Imaging Research in Leeds and he holds the position of a joint director of this internationally eminent center. He has pushed hard in creating exchange programs between Leeds and other scholarly centers such as the University of Granada, Spain, and the Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta. He has written several scholarly books and edited conference proceedings and other special volumes. But perhaps he is best known for his books: · Multivariate Analysis (coauthored with John Kent and John Bibby · Statistics of Directional Data (second edition coauthored with Peter Jupp) · Statistical Shape Analysis (coauthored with Ian Dryden) The conferences and workshops he has been organizing in Leeds for a number of years have had significant impacts on statistics and its interface with IT (information technology). He is dynamic and his sense of humor is unmistakable. He is a world traveler.

Source: Statist. Sci. 17, no. 1 (2002), 113–148 Nitis Mukhopadhyay: A Conversation with Kanti Mardia [1]