Rajat Subhra Hazra

Dr. Rajat Subhra Hazra is an Indian mathematician specialising in probability theory.

[1][2] He is affiliated to the Mathematical Institute of Leiden University, the Netherlands from 2021.

[3] Prior to that he was affiliated to Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata.

Dr. Hazra has a very broad range of research interests including extreme value theory, regular variation, random matrices, free probability, Gaussian free fields, branching random walks, membrane models, random graphs, etc.

A recent example came into limelight when he asked an exam question with Covfefe, a word that featured in US President Donald Trump’s tweet for random sequence of letters.