Arup Bose is on the faculty of the Theoretical Statistics and Mathematics Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India. He has research contributions in statistics, probability, economics and econometrics. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (USA), and of all three national science academies of India. He is a recipient of the S.S. Bhatnagar Prize and the C.R. Rao Award and holds a J.C.Bose National Fellowship. He has been on the editorial board of several journals. He has authored four books: Patterned Random Matrices, Large Covariance and Autocovariance Matrices (with Monika Bhattacharjee), U-Statistics, Mm-Estimators and Resampling (with Snigdhansu Chatterjee) and Random Circulant Matrices (with Koushik Saha).