Ratan Dasgupta was born on 15 September 1953 to Manoranjan and Saraswati at Agartala, Tripura. After completion of high school and graduation (1972) at hometown Agartala, he completed his Masters (1975) and Ph.D (1981) degree in Statistics at Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata; where he is employed as a Professor. Apart from Ph.D topic on rates of convergence in CLT, his areas of research interest are: application of Statistics in Quality Control, fluid mechanics, environment, physics etc. He has published about 60 research papers. He is married to Soma and has a son Debkumar.