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{{short description |Indian statistician}}
{{Infobox Scientist
| name = Jyotiprasad Medhi
| image = Jyotiprasad Medhi.jpg
| thesis_year = 1956
| awards =
| children = 4
| spouse = Prity Medhi
| influenced = [[Gautam Biswas]]
| known_for = [[Queueing theory]], [[Stochastic process]], [[Statistics]]
| doctoral_students = [[Tata Subba Rao]]
| academic_advisors = [[M S Bartlett]]
| doctoral_advisor = [[Robert Fortet]]
| thesis_title = Problems d'estination statisque relatifs a certains processus stationnares de second ordre
| thesis_url = https://www.genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=88672
| birth_date = July 1 1924
| alma_mater = {{plain list|
*[[University of Paris]]
*[[University of Manchester]]
*[[Calcutta University]]
*[[Cotton University]]}}
| workplaces = [[Gauhati University]], [[Institute of Advanced Study in Science and Technology]]
| fields = [[Statistics]]
| nationality = [[India|Indian]]
| citizenship = Indian
| other_names = Bhagawati Da
| death_place = [[Guwahati]], [[India]]
| death_date = 3 February 2017
| birth_place = [[Undivided Kamrup district|Kamrup]], [[Assam]], [[India]]
| home_town = [[Guwahati]]
}}
'''Jyotiprasad Medhi ''' was a [[Professor]] and [[Emeritus Professor]] of statistics at [[Gauhati University]] and [[Institute of Advanced Study in Science and Technology]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://gonitsora.com/jyoti-prasad-medhi/|title=Dr. Jyoti Prasad Medhi: An Eminent Assamese Mathematician and my Thoughts|first=Priyankush|last=Deka|date=February 17, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.sentinelassam.com/top-headlines/dr-jyoti-prasad-medhi-breathes-his-last/|title=Dr Jyoti Prasad Medhi breathes his last - Sentinelassam|first=Sentinel Digital|last=Desk|website=The Sentinel Assam}}</ref><ref name=AssamTribune>{{Cite news|url=http://www.assamtribune.com/scripts/detailsnew.asp?id=feb0417/city049|title=World famous statistician Prof JP Medhi passes away|website=The Assam Tribune Online|date=3 February 2017}}</ref>

==Work and education==

Medhi started his schooling in [[Dibrugarh]] and in 1940 he passed Matriculation from Dibrugarh Government High School.<ref name=ebook>{{cite book|title=Jyotiprasad Medhi—A Memorial|url=http://medhi.org/misc/JMedhi-Memorial-eBook.pdf|author=[[Deep Medhi|Deepankar Medhi]]|year=1017}}</ref> After matriculation, he did his graduate studies in [[Cotton College]] in 1946 and was a gold medalist in BSc with Honours in mathematics. There he received the Sudmerson Gold Medal and Rajanikant Barat Gold Medal.<ref name=AssamTribune/><ref name=ebook/> Medhi did his MSc in [[Pure Mathematics]] from [[Calcutta University]], and got the Debendra Nath Gangopadhaya Gold medal for record marks obtained and the Post graduate First class first Gold medal in 1948.<ref name=ebook/> In 1952, he took a loan of Rupees Ten thousand from Govt of Assam and moved to England to pursue Master of [[Statistics]] (MStat) from the [[University of Manchester]] and completed in 1954. He worked with [[M S Bartlett]] in the [[University of Manchester]] in 1955 on the Topic '[[Time Series]] Analysis'.<ref>{{Cite journal|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/2333431|title=On the Efficiency of Procedures for Smoothing Periodograms from Time Series with Continuous Spectra|author1=Bartlett, M. S.|author2=Medhi, J.|year=1955|journal=Biometrika|volume=42|issue=1/2|pages=143–150|via=JSTOR|doi=10.2307/2333431|jstor=2333431}}</ref> Thereon Medhi moved to France to study for his DSc in the [[University of Paris]] in 1956 under the supervision of [[Robert Fortet]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=88672 |title=CV |website=www.genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu|access-date=2020-07-10}}</ref> He had also taken a Diploma in French Language with mention 'Honorable'. Its worthy to mention that he had written his Doctoral Thesis in [[French Language]].<ref name=ebook/>

Medhi joined as a [[Lecturer]] of [[Statistics]] at [[Cotton University]] erstwhile [[Cotton College]] in 1948.<ref name=AssamTribune/> However, in the same year Gauhati University was established and he was invited to work as [[Professor]] in [[Gauhati University]]. Accepting the invitation, he joined the Department of Mathematics and Statistics as a Lecturer.<ref name=ebook/> In between his tenure, he had taken MS degree from England and DSc from Paris.<ref name=ebook/><ref name=AssamTribune/> Medhi returned to [[Gauhati University]] where he became a [[Professor]] and was the Head of the department of [[Statistics]] till he retired in 1985.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.assamtribune.com/scripts/detailsnew.asp?id=feb0417/city049|title=World famous statistician Prof JP Medhi passes away|website=The Assam Tribune Online}}</ref > Earlier in Gauhati University, both Mathematics and Statistics were in a common department, however, under the able leadership of Prof Medhi, Statistics became a full fledged individual department. In 1987, two years after retirement, he was entitled the honour of [[Professor Emeritus]] at the same university and remained so until his demise in 2017.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.sentinelassam.com/top-headlines/dr-jyoti-prasad-medhi-breathes-his-last/|title=Dr Jyoti Prasad Medhi breathes his last - Sentinelassam|first=Sentinel Digital|last=Desk|website=The Sentinel Assam}}</ref> Under his guidance, several students got Doctoral degrees and [[Tata Subba Rao]] is the first among them. From Southern India, Subba Rao had come to Assam to pursue his research under Prof Medhi and later he had joined [[Manchester University]] as a Professor.<ref name=ebook/> In 1979, he established the 'Population Research Centre' and served as a Director. He played a prominent role in shaping the newly formed Institute of Advanced Study in Science and Technology, Assam, IASST by serving as Director.<ref name=ebook/>

==Publications==

Medhi published many articles in peer reviewed international and national journals.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://scholar.google.co.in/citations?user=umYYZ4wAAAAJ&hl=en|title=Jyotiprasad Medhi, D.Sc. (Hon.), Dr-es-Sc(Paris) - Google Scholar|website=scholar.google.co.in}}</ref > He also published two books on [[stochastic processes]] each with over 500 citations.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DnCWgeoalKQC&q=stochastic+processes+by+j+medhi&pg=PR9|title=Stochastic Processes|first=Jyotiprasad|last=Medhi|date=July 10, 1994|publisher=New Age International|isbn=9788122405491|via=Google Books}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://scholar.google.co.in/scholar_url?url=https://cds.cern.ch/record/1086511/files/0124874622_TOC.pdf&hl=en&sa=X&scisig=AAGBfm0KT7AfwEbE3s97L51flurDYMNSjw&nossl=1&oi=scholarr |title=STOCHASTIC MODELS IN QUEUEING THEORY |website=scholar.google.co.in |format=PDF|access-date=2020-07-10}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://scholar.google.co.in/citations?user=umYYZ4wAAAAJ&hl=en|title=Google Scholar page on Jyotiprasad Medhi|publisher=Google Scholar}}</ref><ref name=AssamTribune/>

==Awards and honours==

The J Medhi memorial lecture is annually held in the [[Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati]] at the Department of Mathematics.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.iitg.ac.in/maths/events/JPM/07sept2018.php|title=J. Medhi Memorial Lecture|website=www.iitg.ac.in}}</ref>
In 2016, Medhi was conferred an Honorary [[doctorate]] [[DSc]] by [[Tezpur University]].{{cn|date=May 2020}}

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