Èlizbar Nadaraya is a Georgian mathematician who is currently a Full Professor and the Chair of the Theory of Probability and Mathematical Statistics at the Tbilisi State University.
[1] He developed the Nadaraya-Watson estimator along with Geoffrey Watson, which proposes estimating the conditional expectation of a random variable as a locally weighted average using a kernel as a weighting function.
[2][3][4] Nadaraya was born in 1936 in Khobi, Georgia.
Romanovski Institute of Mathematics, Tashkent in 1981.
He has since co-authored over 120 publications including 5 textbooks in the area of probability and statistics.