Professor Arijit Chaudhuri (1940) has a Ph.D, M.A. and B.A. (Statistics) from Calcutta University(CU), was Lecturer in Statistics in Presidency College (1963-68) and CU (1968-77) and Associate Professor in Indian Statistical Institute (ISI) (1977-1981), a Professor at ISI (1982-2002) and Honorary Visiting Professor there since then including a position as CSIR Emeritus Scientist at ISI (2002-2005). He still regularly teaches B.Stat and M.Stat courses at ISI. Internationally he was a Post-Doc fellow at Sydney University (1973-75), a Visiting Professor (1989-1990) at Virginia Tech, Nebraska-Lincoln University (1997), Delft University (1985). Ha also worked on scientific assignments in Ottawa, Waterloo, Mannheim, Utrecht, Lund, Umea, Stockholm, Southampton, Jerusalem, Cyprus, Havana, Istanbul, Chiba, Durban (universities & Statistical Offices) intermittently over 1979-2009. He has successfully guided 10 Ph.D. students. He has published 10 books/monographs: - Network & adaptive Sampling (2014) CRC Press - Modern Survey Sampling (2014) CRC Press - Indirect Questioning in sample surveys (with TC Christofides)(2013), Springer Verlag - Randomized Response and Indirect Questioningtechniques in surveys (2011),CRC Press - Essentials of Survey Sampling (2010), Prentice Hall of India - Survey Sampling Theory & Methods (with H.Stenger) ( 1st edition, 1992,Marcel Dekker) - 2nd revised and enhanced edition, 2005, CRC Press - Randomized response theory & Techniques (1988) (with Rahul Mukerjee),Marcel Dekker - Unified Theory and Strategies of Survey Sampling (1988)(with late JWE Vos), North Holland (Elsevier) - Developing small Domain Statistics:Modeling in survey sampling; (2012) , e-Book, LAP, Saarbrucken, Germany In addition he has has published 125 peer-reviewed papers alone and jointly in journals including Biometrika, Int. Stat. Rev, Metrika, Stat. Neerlandica, Aust. J.Stat., JSPI, Comm. Stat (Theo. Meth and Comp. Simul), Sankhya, Cal. Stat. Assoc. Bull., J. Ind. Soc. Agri. Stat.