Dr Gopalan Nair completed his undergraduate degree in Mathematics at Calicut University, India with Statistics and Physics as minor subjects. Subsequenlty he spent two years at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research Centre at Bangalore, India as a research scholar. In 1989 he completed a PhD in the area of Mathematical Statistics at the University of Melbourne, Australia. He held academic positions at Auburn University, The University of Queensland, Curtin University of Technology, The University of California (Santa Barbara) and the National University of Singapore, before joining the University of Western Australia in 2008.

Spatial Point process modeling and applications; 

Analysis of point patterns on linear networks;

Combinatorial methods for M/G/1 type Queues

 

Spatial Point Process and applications
Queuing Theory
Time series & Financial modeling
Probability Theory

English
Malayalam
Kannada
and can manage some Tamil and Hindi.