Dr. Bimal Roy
Distinguished Academician
Bimal Kumar Roy is a former Director of the Indian Statistical Institute. (ISI) and a cryptologist from the Cryptology Research Group of the Applied Statistics Unit of ISI, Kolkata. He has taught at the Indian Statistical Institute for over 30 years from 1984.
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Bimal Kumar Roy is a former Director of the Indian Statistical Institute. (ISI) and a cryptologist from the Cryptology Research Group of the Applied Statistics Unit of ISI, Kolkata. He has taught at the Indian Statistical Institute for over 30 years from 1984.
He received a Ph.D. in Combinatorics and Optimization in 1982 from the University of Waterloo.
He has published around forty papers in refereed Journals; around twenty book chapters, including proceedings for International Conferences; with over twenty papers in Cryptology and Information Security in reputed International Conferences and Journals.
In 2015, Prof. Roy was awarded Padma Shri, India’s fourth-highest civilian honour, recognizing his accomplishments and contribution to education. Further, Dr. Roy was also appointed as the chairperson of the National Statistical Commission, Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation, Government of India, in 2019.
