Rahul Mukerjee earned his BSc (Hons) in Statistics and MSc (Statistics) from the University of Calcutta, with rank first in first class in both examinations. He obtained his PhD degree (1982) from the University of Calcutta, under the supervision of Professor SK Chatterjee for work on asymmetric factorial designs. He held faculty positions at the University of Calcutta (1980-82) and the Indian Statistical Institute (1982-89) where he was awarded an out of turn promotion to full professorship at the age of thirty three. Since 1989, he is a Professor of Statistics at the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta (in the Higher Academic Grade, since its inception in 2009). Mukerjee held visiting positions in many institutions abroad including Harvard University, University of Michigan, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (Berkeley), Pennsylvania State University, Georgia Institute of Technology, University of Toronto, University of Waterloo, Simon Fraser University, Hiroshima University, Academia Sinica (Taipei), Hong Kong Baptist University and National University of Singapore. He is a member of the National Statistical Commission, Government of India, and an adjunct professor of the Indian Statistical Institute. Mukerjee's research interests pertain to several broad areas of statistics including design of experiments and asymptotic theory. In design of experiments, he focused on factorial designs concentrating on the issues of orthogonality and optimality under traditional as well as modern criteria such as minimum aberration, which aim at capturing model uncertainty. He also worked on topics like optimal response surface designs, repeated measurements designs and applications to visual cryptography, in addition to contributing to the problems of existence and construction of orthogonal arrays. Mukerjee's work in asymptotic theory covers areas such as higher order comparison of tests and confidence intervals, probability matching priors and empirical likelihood. Mukerjee has authored/co-authored five monographs and has published over 240 research papers in refereed journals. Mukerjee has been a Member of the Council, Indian Statistical Institute. He serves regularly as a reviewer for Research Funding agencies across the world. He is or has been on the editorial boards of such top journals in his field as Annals of Statistics (USA), Biometrika (UK) and Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series B (UK). Mukerjee is a recipient of SS Bhatnagar Award, National Award in Statistics in honour of Professor CR Rao, and Indian Science Congress Association Young Scientists Award. He is a J.C. Bose National Fellow. He is also a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (USA), the Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore, and the National Academy of Sciences (India), Allahabad.