Big Data Analytics

About the Editors
Saumyadipta Pyne is Professor at the Public Health Foundation of India, at the
Indian Institute of Public Health, Hyderabad, India. Formerly, he was P.C.
Mahalanobis Chair Professor and head of Bioinformatics at the C.R. Rao Advanced
Institute of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science. He is also Ramalingaswami
Fellow of Department of Biotechnology, the Government of India, and the
founder chairman of the Computer Society of India’s Special Interest Group on Big
Data Analytics. Professor Pyne has promoted research and training in Big Data
Analytics, globally, including as the workshop co-chair of IEEE Big Data in 2014
and 2015 held in the U.S.A. His research interests include Big Data problems in life
sciences and health informatics, computational statistics and high-dimensional data
modeling.
B.L.S. Prakasa Rao is the Ramanujan Chair Professor at the C.R. Rao Advanced
Institute of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science, Hyderabad, India.
Formerly, he was director at the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, and the Homi
Bhabha Chair Professor at the University of Hyderabad. He is a Bhatnagar awardee
from the Government of India, fellow of all the three science academies in India,
fellow of Institute of Mathematical Statistics, U.S.A., and a recipient of the national
award in statistics in memory of P.V. Sukhatme from the Government of India. He
has also received the Outstanding Alumni award from Michigan State University.
With over 240 papers published in several national and international journals of
repute, Prof. Prakasa Rao is the author or editor of 13 books, and member of the
editorial boards of several national and international journals. He was, most
recently, the editor-in-chief for journals—Sankhya A and Sankhya B. His research
interests include asymptotic theory of statistical inference, limit theorems in
probability theory and inference for stochastic processes.
S.B. Rao was formerly director of the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, and
director of the C.R. Rao Advanced Institute of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer
Science, Hyderabad. His research interests include theory and algorithms in
graph theory, networks and discrete mathematics with applications in social,
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