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Professor Bikas K Sinha has been publishing with Springer since 1989 and has to his credit both monographs and edited volumes (including three in Lecture Notes Series in Statistics on optimal designs -- Vol. 54 (1989), Vol. 163 (2002) and Vol. 1028 (2014)), not to mention contributed chapters and articles in journals. As an academic he has been affiliated with Indian Statistical Institute Kolkata, and has travelled extensively within USA, Canada and Europe for collaborative research and teaching assignments. His publications span both statistical theory and applications and he has more than 120 research articles published in peer-reviewed journals. He has also served in the Editorial Board of statistical journals including Sankhya, Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference and Calcutta Statistical Association Bulletin. He has served Government of India as a Member of National Statistical Commission for the 3-year term [2006-2009]. He was appointed an 'Expert on Mission' for the United Nations-funded Workshop on Survey Methodology in 1991. Of late, he was awarded Centenary Medal of Excellence by the School of Tropical Medicine, Kolkata.
Prof. Srijib Bhusan Bagchi retired from the University of Burdwan. Subsequently he joined the Department of Mathematics, Bethune College Kolkata as Jyostnamoyee Dey Professor of Actuarial Science. He also served Aliah University as Professor in the Department of Statistics and Informatics. He was an Emeritus Professor of the University of Engineering and Management, Kolkata. He published more than forty papers in reputed journals and conferences and a book of Statistics. His research interest includes reliability theory, SQC, social networks and Sampling Theory. Currently he is the Chairman of Indian Association for Productivity, Quality and Reliability (IAPQR).