Applied Probability

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Before coming to Cornell in 1965, Professor Prabhu was associate professor of statistics at Michigan State University (1964-65); reader in mathematics and statistics at the University of Australia (1961-64); reader and head of the Department of Statistics at Karnatak University (1952-61); and lecturer in mathematics and statistics at various universities in India (1950-52 and 1946-48). He has been a visiting professor at Uppsala University, Sweden, the Technion:  Israel Institute of Technology, the University of Maryland, the University of Melbourne, and the Mathematics Research Center at the University of Wisconsin. Professor Prabhu is a fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics and a member of the American Mathematical Society.  He was Pinhas Naor Distinguished Fellow for 1981.

Professor Prabhu's research interests are in two main areas:  probability modeling and stochastic processes.  He has investigated models for storage systems, queues, telecommunication systems and insurance risk. He has also investigated such aspects of stochastic processes as regenerative phenomena, fluctutation theory and Werner-Hopf factorization.

Select Publications 

"Further results for semiregenerative phenomena".  Acta Appl. Math. 34  213 - 223 (1994). 

"Statistical inference in stochastic processes". J. Statist. Plann. Inference 39, No. 2 (1994). (With I.V. Baswa)

"A storage model for data communication systems". Queueing Systems Theory Appl. 19 1 - 40 (1995). (With A. Pacheo)

"A Markovian storage model". Ann. Appl. Probability  6 76 - 91. (1996). (With A. Pacheo)

Foundations of Queueing Theory. Kluwer, Boston (1997).