Meghalaya statistician in Stanford’s top 2% scientists list for 5th yr in a row

WITH barely three months left for his retirement, a statistics teacher at St Anthony’s College in Meghalaya’s Shillong, Sanku Dey, is topping off his career by securing a place on Stanford University’s list of the top 2% of scientists in the world for the fifth year in a row.

- PRASANTA MAZUMDAR @ Guwahati

Of the 1.17 crore researchers evaluated globally, only an estimated 2.34 lakh made it to the list, which included 23,549 statisticians. He has been ranked at 54,006 on the list, finding the 267th spot among statisticians. The certificate mentions mathematics and statistics as his main field. Notably, he is the first one from the Northeast to achieve this feat.