Nalini Ravishanker
Nalini Ravishanker is an Indian statistician interested in time series analysis and in applications of statistics to actuarial science, business, and transportation.
She is a professor of statistics at the University of Connecticut, co-editor-in-chief of International Statistical Review, and president of the International Society for Business and Industrial Statistics for 2015–2017.
Ravishanker earned a bachelor's degree in statistics in 1981 from Presidency College, Chennai. She completed her PhD in 1987 from the New York University Stern School of Business. After a temporary position at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center she joined the Connecticut faculty in 1989.
With Dipak K. Dey, Ravishanker is the author of A First Course in Linear Model Theory. She is also one of the editors of Handbook of Discrete-Valued Time Series.
Ravishanker is a fellow of the American Statistical Association and an elected member of the International Statistical Institute.
