About Me

I am currently a Designated Assistant Professor at the Graduate School of Mathematics, Nagoya University, where I am working with François Le Gall's research group. Before that, I have completed my Ph.D. in Theoretical Computer Science at IIT Gandhinagar under the guidance of Bireswar Das. Even before that, I earned my M.Phil. degree (2019) and M.Sc. degree (2018) in (pure) mathematics from Sardar Patel University, Vallabh Vidyanagar, Gujarat, India. Here is my CV.  

My Erdős number is three via Paul Erdős →  Peter J Cameron →  Andrea Lucchini →  Dhara Thakkar

Research Interest 

Theoretical Computer Science, in particular, Algebraic Computation, Group Theory, Computational Complexity Theory, Quantum Complexity Theory, Group-based Cryptography, Algorithms and Data Structures, and Parallel Algorithms.

Contact/Profiles:

Reach out to me at dharathakkar754 (at) gmail (dot) com.
Here is a quick link to my DBLP, GoogleScholar, MathSciNet, Twitter, goodreads

Updates/News

• May'26: Paper accepted in ICML 2026🎉

• April''26: Paper accepted in ICALP 2026🎉

• January'26: Won the ACM India Doctoral Dissertation Award 2025.

• Dec. 2025: Serving as a Program Committee (PC) member for TQC 2026.

• November'25: Paper accepted in SIAM Journal of Computing.

• November'25: ArXiv has been selected as one of the Program Committee's three long plenary talks at QIP 2026🎉

• July'25: ArXiv has been accepted at FOCS 2025🎉.

• April'25: A blog by Scott Aaronson on our recent paper (Link)

• April'25: I have been selected to participate in the 12th Heidelberg Laureate Forum (link). 

• Septembar'24: Successfully Defended my PhD Thesis (PDF) 🎉

• June'24: Selected to give a Rising start talk at TCS for ALL Workshop, STOC 2024 (Link)