Sreenivasa Rao Jammalamadaka is a Distinguished Professor at the Department of Statistics and Applied Probability, University of California, Santa Barbara. He does research in Statistical Theory and Methods, with specialization in Directional Statistics, nonparametric methods, and large sample theory and efficiencies of tests. His current research projects are on 'Harmonic Analysis of Spherical distributions,' and "Multivariate Bayesian Structural Time Series models" besides others.