Beliyar Ramdas Bhat was a professor and head of the department of statistics at Karnatak University in India for more than two decades.
degree in statistics from Karnataka University,[2] prior to working on a Ph.D. from Berkeley in 1961.
He was the Secretary, Editor and President of Indian Society for Probability and Statistics.
He was also the past President of the Section of Statistics of the Indian Science Congress Association.
Bhat was the author of books including: He was the founding editor-in-chief of the Journal of the Indian Society for Probability and Statistics.