N. U. Prabhu
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Narahari Umanath Prabhu (born April 25, 1924 in Kozhikode) is an Indian-American mathematician, known for his contributions to operation research, in particular queueing theory.[1] He did not seek a Ph.D., however he guided a number of Ph.Ds.
Career[edit]
Prabhu a Goud Saraswat Brahmin from Mangalore and Kozhikode got a B.A. in mathematics from University of Madras (1946), a M.A. in statistics from University of Bombay (1950). Prabhu was the founding head of the department of statistics, Karnatak University, Dharwar in 1951.[2] He obtained a M.Sc. in mathematics from University of Manchester on a thesis entitled Solution to Some Dam Problems (1957).
Prabhu lectured at Gauhati University (1950–52), Karnatak University (1952–61), University of Western Australia (1961–64), before becoming associate professor at University of Michigan (1964–65) and Cornell University (1965–94) where he became professor (1967) and emeritus (1994). Prabhu also had longer research stays at Indian Statistical Institute in Calcutta (1961), University of Wisconsin–Madison (1970, 73), Technion in Haifa (1973), University of Melbourne (1978), University of Maryland, College Park (1979), and Uppsala University (1984)[citation needed].
He was the founding editor of the Queueing Systems (journal) (1986–94) and has edited several other journals, as well as published books on Foundations of Queueing Theory (Springer Verlag, 1997) and Stochastic storage processes (Springer, 1998).
The South Asia Program at Cornell created the Rabindranath Tagore Endowment in Modern Indian Literature, made possible through a gift by Professor Emeritus Narahari Umanath Prabhu and his wife[citation needed].
Awards[edit]
- INFORMS (Applied Probability) Award of Honor (1997)
- Honorary fellow of the Indian statistical association (1998)
References[edit]
- 1924 births
- Living people
- Queueing theorists
- Cornell University faculty
- Alumni of the University of Manchester
- Indian emigrants to the United States
- American people of Malayali descent
- University of Mumbai alumni
- Scientists from Kozhikode
- Academic journal editors
- Gauhati University faculty
- University of Madras alumni
- Karnatak University faculty
- University of Western Australia faculty
- University of Michigan faculty
- American editors
- Indian editors
- Scientists from Kerala
- 20th-century Indian mathematicians
- Indian expatriates in the United Kingdom
- Indian expatriates in Australia
- Indian academic biography stubs
- Asian mathematician stubs