Tata Subba Rao is emeritus professor of statistics in the School of Mathematics, University of Manchester. He gained his MA at Karnatak, his PhD from [[Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati|Gauhati] in 1966] DSc from Manchester in 1988. He is a specialist in time series analysis especially non-stationary and non-linear time series analysis, higher order spectral analysis, theory of random fields, time series methods for analysis of environmental variables (detection of climatic changes etc) and multivariate nonlinear models. The Subba Rao-Liporace models, and Subba Rao Gabr window for bivariate spectra[1]are named after him.
Subba Rao retired [2] in 2009 having worked at UMIST and the University of Manchester for 42 years. He published over 70 papers and supervised 15 PhD students. Even after retirement he remains active.[3]