Narayanaswamy Balakrishnan
Narayanaswamy Balakrishnan received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Statistics from the University of Madras, India, in 1976 and 1978, respectively. He finished his Ph.D. in Statistics from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India, in 1981. He is a Distinguished University Professor at McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada. His research interests include distribution theory, ordered data analysis, censoring methodology, reliability, survival analysis, nonparametric inference, and statistical quality control. Prof. Balakrishnan is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association, and a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics. He is currently the Editor-in-Chief of Communications in Statistics.
