Distinguished research professor and professor emeritus Ehsanes Saleh has been celebrated by the newspaper Jugantor as one of the world’s top statisticians, the first from Bangladesh to publish more than 200 research papers who was involved in research, editing and teaching for six decades.
Saleh was born in 1932 in Bikrampur in the district of Munsiganj. At the beginning of his career, he worked in the Central Statistical office and the Defence Ministry of Pakistan before leaving for Canada to pursue higher studies in 1961.
At Western University, he completed a masters in 1962 and a PhD in 1965. In fall 1966, he was appointed as an assistant professor at Carleton in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics. The following year, he was appointed associate professor at Simon Fraser University’s Department of Mathematics. In 1968, he returned to Carleton and founded the graduate program in statistics. From 1991 to 1993, he worked as the Ottawa-Carleton director of Graduate Studies and Research. After retirement in 1997, he became more active in research work as a distinguished research professor.
Saleh has worked as a visiting professor at academic institutions, including the University of Toronto, Stanford University, MIT, University of California (Berkeley), Michigan State University, Bowling Green State University and the Kansas University Medical Centre. He is the first Bangladeshi statistician elected as a fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics and the American Statistical Association and he is an honorary member of the Statistical Society of Canada.
For his outstanding contributions to statistical science, he was awarded the Q.M. Hossain Gold Medal in 1992 by the Bangladesh Statistical Association. For his lifetime contributions in statistics, Dhaka University (ISRT) awarded him with a gold medal. Saleh was awarded the Islamic Countries Society of Statistical Sciences (ISOSS) gold medal twice for being the best researcher in statistical sciences and having the best-selling statistics textbook. He is the only Bangladeshi to receive The Ogawa Award. Several international conferences have honoured Saleh. In particular, the Bangladesh Statistical Association and North South University in Dhaka honoured him by arranging international conferences to recognize his achievements.
For more than two decades, he worked as chief editor of the Journal of Statistical Research. He has organized a number of international conferences and symposiums, and has been a keynote speaker at many conferences at home and abroad. Among the textbooks he has published are Theory of Preliminary Test and Stein-Type Estimation with Application, An Introduction to Probability and Statistics jointly written with V. K. Rohatgi, Statistical Inference for Models with Multivariate t-Distributed Errors jointly written with M. Arashi and S. M. M. Tabatabuey and an edited book, Nonparametric Statistics and Related Topics, published by North-Holland. A new book of Saleh, Theory of Ridge Regression EstimatIon with Application with M. Arashi and B.G. Kibria is now in print.
At the age of 86, Saleh still spends most of his time working on quality research and other statistics research. He has continuously worked to raise the standard of research in statistics. Saleh is a distinguished academic, recognized as a living legend of statistics.
Wednesday, August 15, 2018 in News Releases
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