Kanti V Mardia

Senior Research Professor

Department of Statistics

School of Mathematics
The University of Leeds
Leeds, West Yorkshire
LS2 9JT, UK.

Tel: (+44) (113) 343 5100
Fax: (+44) (113) 343 5090
Email: K.V.Mardia@leeds.ac.uk

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Kanti V. Mardia is presently Senior Research Professor, a position which has been specially created by the University of Leeds after the expiry of his position in 2000 as Chair of Applied Statistics which he held since 1973. Due to his initiative and efforts, the Centre of Statistical Bioinformatics (CoSB), Leeds, has been recently established and he is now appointed as its Adjunct Director (see also Centre of Statistical Bioinformatics). He was a founding Director of CoMIR (Centre of Medical Imaging Research).  His publications comprise over three hundred articles in statistical journals and numerous books, including Statistical Shape Analysis, Statistics of Directional Data, Multivariate Analysis and The Art of Statistical Science: A Tribute to G. S. Watson. He has edited several volumes including volumes 1 and 2 of Statistics and Images, Proceedings of MIUA ‘98 and all the Proceedings of the University of Leeds Annual Statistics Research Workshops (LASR). He founded and have been organizing the LASR Workshops, which have grown since 1973 into international conferences. The silver anniversary of the LASR workshops was celebrated in July 2006.

In January 2007, Professor Mardia had an audience with the President of India, His Excellency Dr. Abdul Kalam, and discussed with him the topic of “Statistics, Science and Spirituality”.

He was awarded the Guy Medal in Silver (2003) of the Royal Statistical Society and the citation for the award reads: “The Guy Medal in Silver for 2003 is awarded to Professor Kanti Mardia for his many pathbreaking contributions to statistical science, including two fundamental papers read to the Society on ‘Statistics of directional data’ (1975) and ‘A penalised likelihood approach to image warping’ (with C.A. Glasbey, 2001), his highly acclaimed monographs and his lasting leadership role in interdisciplinary research.”

His contributions (selected recent articles) include:

bioinformatics, directional statistics, geosciences, image analysis, multivariate analysis, shape analysis, spatial statistics, and spatial temporal modelling.

Recent research has covered applied topics such as unlabelled shape analysis and protein bioinformatics (click here for prospective Ph.D. topics), directional statistics and Ramachandran plots, rock fractures and nuclear waste depository, face recognition from photographs, shape analysis of the human spine, Bayesian data fusion using medical images from different modalities, growth studies through laser scans and assessment of stereolithograph skull models.

Full details up to 2000 appears in the article entitled “A CONVERSATION WITH KANTI MARDIA”

by Mukhopadhyay, N. (2002), Statistical Science, vol 17, pages 113-148.

SEE ALSO:

Interview for the February 2009 Research Newsletter of the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIMA) [the article can be found here]

Profile Education Employment History Fellowships Honours	Service LASR Workshop Editorial positions Ph.D. students Research fellows
Research Publications Books o Monographs o Edited volumes Bioinformatics Directional statistics Geosciences Image analysis Inaugural and plenary addresses Multivariate analysis Shape analysis Spatial statistics Spatial temporal modelling	Other Discussions Inaccessible reprints Full list of publications Recent high profile presentations Recent visiting positions Literary Interests o Jainism o Omar Khayyam

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