Dr. K. Muralidharan
Dr. K. Muralidharan is currently working as Professor and Head of department of Statistics, Faculty of Science, The Maharajah Sayajirao University of Baroda, Vadodara. He is also the Director of Population Research Centre,
MSU Baroda. Along with his teaching at MSU, he is also an adjunct faculty to IIT Gandhinagar Since 2012. He has obtained his MSc degree in Statistics from Calicut University, Kerala; MPhil and Ph.D. in Statistics from
Sardar Patel University and has completed Post Doctoral Fellowship from Institute of Statistical Science at Academia Sinica, Taiwan. He is an internationally qualified Six Sigma Master Black belt from Indian Statistical
Institute, Bangalore.
He has about twenty four years of teaching and research experience and has guided about five research students for doctorate degree. He has about research publications in international and national journals. His
research interests are in the field of Statistical inference, Applied Stochastic point processes, Reliability and Life testing, industrial statistics, Quality and Six Sigma. He is the Coordinating Editor of Journal
of Probability and Statistical Science published from Taiwan, Associate Editor of Journal of Indian society for Probability and Statistics published from India, Associate Editor of International Journal of Mathematics,
Statistics and Operations Research published from Singapore and Associate Editor of Investigations in Mathematical Science published from India.
He has won number of awards and fellowships including the Commonwealth Academic Fellowship sponsored by British Council, UK. Recently, he was awarded the “Young emerging future leader of Quality and Reliability”
by Society for Reliability Engineering, Quality and Operations Management (SREQOM), New Delhi. He is a Principal member of the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) New Delhi. He has been the Secretary of Indian Society
for Probability and Statistics for the terms 2013-2014 and 2015-2016.
Recently, He had published a book entitled “Six Sigma for Organizational Excellence: A Statistical approach (ISBN 978-81-322-2324-5, e-ISBN 978-81-322-2325-2 with Springer can be very useful for Six Sigma consultants
and practitioners besides Statistics and Mathematics students. He has co-authored another book entitled “An Introduction to Parametric inference” (ISBN-978-81-8487-416-7) with Prof. B. K. Kale, and the book is published
by Narosa, New Delhi. His first book on “Statistical Methods for Quality, Reliability and Maintainability” (ISBN-978-81-203-4543-0) published by PHI learning private Ltd, is a blend of three disciplines, namely: management,
science and engineering and can be used as a text cum reference book for engineers and practitioners in manufacturing and maintenance area.
Prof. K. Muralidharan has completed five major research projects funded by UGC (2), DST, MoHFW, and NHRC New Delhi. Apart from this he has guided many student projects on statistical methods and Six Sigma. So far
he has presented papers in about eighty national and international conferences and has organized a dozen conferences and seminars. He has chaired number of conference/seminar/workshops sessions and was resource person
to many UGC refresher course programs at various universities across India. He had visited number of universities in India, Taiwan, UK and UAE.
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