Indian Statistical Institute (ISI) is an institute of national importance as recognized by an act of the Indian parliament, functioning under the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MOSPI) of the Government of India. The headquarters are located in Baranagar, a suburb of Kolkata, West Bengal, with subsidiary centres at Delhi, Bangalore, Chennai, Tezpur, besides specialized units at Mumbai, Pune, Hyderabad, Coimbatore, Vadodara and Giridih. Established in 1931, this public university of India is one of the oldest and most prestigious institutions focused on Statistics, and its early reputation led it to being adopted as a model for the first US institute of statistics set up at the Research Triangle, North Carolina by Gertrude Mary Cox. Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis, the founder of ISI, was deeply influenced by Rabindranath Tagore's concept of wisdom and education.
Primary activities of ISI are research and training of Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science and various natural and social sciences related to Statistics. Originally affiliated with the University of Calcutta, the institute was declared an institute of national importance in 1959, through an act of Indian parliament, Indian Statistical Institute act, 1959. The campuses at Kolkata, Chennai, Delhi, Bangalore and Tezpur focus on teaching. Specialized centres located at these locations and other cities in India provide consultancy services in statistical process control and operations research. The current Director of the Institute is Professor Bimal Kumar Roy and the current Dean of Studies is Professor Pradipta Bandyopadhyay.
ISI's key areas of expertise are statistics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative economics, operations research and information science and it is one of the few research oriented Indian schools offering courses at both the undergraduate and graduate level.
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