UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Bharath Sriperumbudur, professor of statistics and of mathematics in the Penn State Eberly College of Science, has been named a fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS), an international organization that fosters the development and dissemination of the theory and application of statistics and probability.
IMS fellows are selected for distinction in research or leadership that has profoundly influenced the field. The IMS fellow designation, established in 1935, recognizes the top members of the international statistics and probability community, with no more than 0.33% of IMS membership elected as fellows in any given year.
In his research, Sriperumbudur explores how a statistical technique called the kernel method can be used to determine a statistically optimal and computationally efficient way to deal with complex or high-dimensional data. His work has applications to a variety of fields that generate massive amounts of high-dimensional, non-standard data that is challenging to analyze, including astrophysics, bioinformatics, finance, forensics and social science.
Sriperumbudur’s previous awards include the Rosenberger Outstanding Teaching Award from the Penn State Department of Statistics in 2024 and the Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award from the U.S. National Science Foundation in 2020. He was a Simons Visiting Professor at the Mathematics Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach, an international research center in Germany, in 2023.
Prior to joining the faculty at Penn State in 2014, Sriperumbudur was a research fellow at the University of Cambridge in the U.K. from 2012 to 2014 and a postdoctoral research associate at University College London from 2010 to 2012. He earned a doctoral degree in electrical engineering at the University of California, San Diego, in 2010, a master’s degree in electrical engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, in 2002 and a bachelor’s degree in electronics and communication engineering at Sri Venkateswara University in India in 1999.