Taps Maiti announced as MSU Foundation Professor

STT’s own Prof. Taps Maiti has been promoted to the endowed and coveted rank of MSU Foundation Professor! President Lou Anna K. Simon and Provost June Pierce Youatt presided over a high-profile ceremony at the Kellogg Conference Center on Friday, September 22, to honor him and all the newly named and endowed professors at MSU. His new rank recognizes Prof. Maiti’s leading national and international role in cutting-edge statistical theory and methods connecting to diverse research fields. His work has been applied to business analytics, medical bioinformatics, and biomedical engineering. Always on the lookout for high-impact applications, he is now working on analyzing data from MSU’s new particle accelerator project: the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams. Congratulations, Prof. Maiti!