B.V. Rao is an adjunct professor at Chennai Mathematical Institute, Tamil Nadu, India. He received his MSc degree in Statistics from Osmania University, Hyderabad, India, in 1965 and the doctoral degree from the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India, in 1970. His research interests include descriptive set theory, analysis, probability theory and stochastic calculus. He was a professor and later a distinguished scientist at the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata. Generations of Indian probabilists have benefitted from his teaching, where he taught from 1973 till 2009.
