Indian Statistical Institute (ISI) is an academic institute of national importance as recognised by a 1959 act of the Indian parliament. It grew out of the Statistical Laboratory set up by Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis in Presidency College, Kolkata. Established in 1931, this public university of India is one of the oldest and most prestigious institutions focused on statistics, and its early reputation led it to being adopted as a model for the first US institute of Statistics set up at the Research Triangle, North Carolina by Gertrude Mary Cox.
The Chennai Centre is actively invloved in research in areas of Statistics, Game Theory, Graph Theory, Logic, Cryptogaphy, Physics and Mathematics. We offer a Master's program in Statistics, and Doctoral programs in Statistics, Computer Science, Mathematics and Statistical Quality Control.
