Professor Rajeeva L Karandikar is Professor Emeritus at Chennai Mathematical Institute (CMI).

Rajeeva obtained his Ph. D. at the Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), 1981 and was a Professor at ISI and Director at CMI. For four years, he was Executive Vice President at Cranes Software International Limited, Bangalore. He has also served as Chairperson of the National Statistics Commission.

Rajeeva has made significant contributions to various areas including Stochastic Calculus, Filtering theory, Markov processes and martingale problems, limit theorems, Monte Carlo techniques, queuing theory, game theory, theory of option pricing. He has authored three books, two with Professor G Kallianpur and one with Professor B V Rao.

He is a fellow of Indian National Science Academy and Indian Academy of Sciences, was awarded the young scientist medal by Indian National Science Academy (1985), the S S Bhatnagar prize by Council of Industrial and scientific research (1999), the C R Rao National award in statistics by Government of India (2000) and the P C Mahalanobis Memorial Medal awarded by Indian National Science Congress.

Dr Karandikar has been involved in numerous applied consulting projects over the years. He has worked on development of proprietary Blockcipher algorithms for Indian defense services. He worked on opinion polls and exit polls in India from 1998. He has worked with India Today, Doordarshan, TV Today (Aaj Tak) during 1998-2005, CNN-IBN during 2005-2014, ABP News (2015-2019).