Narahari Umanath Prabhu

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Narahari Umanath Prabhu (born April 25, 1924 in Calicut) is an Indian-American mathematician (US citizen 1972), known for his contributions to operation research, in particular queueing theory.^[1]

He got his B.A. in mathematics from University of Madras (1946), an M.A. in statistics from University of Bombay (1950) and an M.Sc. in mathematics from University of Manchester on a thesis entitled Solution to Some Dam Problems (1957). He lectured at Gauhati University (1950-52), Karnatak University (1952-61), University of Western Australia (1961-64), before becoming associate professor at University of Michigan (1964-65) and Cornell University (1965-94) where he became professor (1967) and emeritus (1994). Dr. Prabhu also had longer research stays at Indian Statistical Institute in Calcutta (1961), University of Wisconsin (1970, 73), Technion in Haifa (1973), University of Melbourne (1978), University of Maryland, College Park (1979), and Uppsala University (1984). He was the founding editor of the Queueing Systems (journal) (1986-94) and has edited several other journals, as well as published the books Foundations of Queueing Theory (Springer Verlag, 1997) and Stochastic storage processes (Springer, 1998).

[edit] Awards

• INFORMS (Applied Probability) Award of Honor (1997)
• Honorary fellow of the Indian statistical association (1998)

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