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He is associated with the developments of two very important and popular web resources, namely, Design Resources Server and Sample Surveys Resources Server. He is President of the Society of Statistics, Computer and Applications, New Delhi, India, and President of the Governing Body of Institute of Applied Statistics and Development Studies, Lucknow, India. A Fellow of the National Academy of Agricultural Sciences and that of the Indian Society of Agricultural Statistics, India, Dr. Gupta is the elected member of the International Statistical Institute, the Netherlands. He has been awarded the Sankhyiki Bhushan Award from the Institute of Applied Statistics and Development Studies, India; the P.V. Sukhatme Gold Medal Award and the D.N. Lal Memorial Lecture Award from the Indian Society of Agricultural Statistics, India; and the best teacher award from the PG School of Indian Agricultural Statistics Research Institute, India.



GIRISH CHANDRA is Scientist at the Division of Forestry Statistics, Indian Council of Forestry Research and Education (ICFRE), Dehradun, India. Earlier, he worked with the Tropical Forest Research Institute, Jabalpur, India and Central Agricultural University, Sikkim, India. His research interests include sample surveys, probability theory, applied statistics and applications in forestry and environmental sciences. He has authored 3 books and published over 30 research papers in reputed journals. He is a recipient of the 2017 Cochran-Hansen Prize by the International Association of Survey Statisticians, the Netherlands. He was honored with the 2018 ICFRE Outstanding Research Award as well as the Young Scientist Award in Mathematical Sciences from the Government of Uttarakhand, India. Having organized two national conferences on forestry and environmental statistics, Dr. Chandra is a member of number of professional societies and institutions, namely, the International Statistical Institute, International Indian Statistical Association, Computational and Methodological Statistics, and the Indian Society for Probability and Statistics.