Jyotiprasad Medhi was a professor of statistics at Gauhati University and Institute of Advanced Study in Science and Technology.

[4] In 1952, he took a loan of ten thousand rupees from Govt of Assam and moved to England to pursue Master of Statistics (MStat) from the University of Manchester and completed in 1954.

[5] Thereon Medhi moved to France to complete his DSc at the University of Paris in 1956 under the supervision of Robert Fortet,[6] while Georges Darmois and Daniel Dugué served on his thesis examination committee.

From Southern India, Subba Rao had come to Assam to pursue his research under Prof Medhi and later he had joined Manchester University as a Professor.

He played a prominent role in shaping the newly formed Institute of Advanced Study in Science and Technology, Assam, IASST by serving as director.