Curriculum Vitae

Academic Trajectory: 

2021-- : Professor, Fordham University, New York, USA. 

2012-2021: Professor, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Pune, India. 

2018-Spring: Member, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, USA. 

2017-Fall:      Visiting Professor, Purdue University, USA. 

2012-2019:  Professor and Coordinator (Mathematics), Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Pune, India.

2011-Fall:       Associate professor (with tenure), Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, USA.

2006-2011:    Assistant professor (tenure-track), Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, USA.

2003-2006:    Visiting assistant professor, University of Iowa, Iowa City, USA. 

2003-Spring:  Visiting assistant professor, Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA. 

2001–2002:    Post-doctoral fellow, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India.  

1999–2001:    Post-doctoral fellow, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.  

1992–1999:    Ph.D., Mathematics, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, University of Mumbai, India.

1988–1992:    B.Tech., Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur, India.

1986-1988:   Pre-University Course, National College, Basavanagudi, Bangalore, India. 

1980-1986:   5th to 10th standard, Kendriya Vidyalay, ASc, Bangalore, India.

1976–1980:   1st to 5th standard, Kendriya Vidyalay, Pattom, Trivandrum, India.  

Awards/Grants: 

2023: Summer collaborators grant at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. 

2022: Elected as a Fellow of the Indian National Science Academy. 

2019-2022: Distinguished Honorary Professor of Mathematics of the Indian Institute of Technology at Kanpur. 

2016: Elected as a Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences.  

2011-2013: Alexander von Humboldt fellowship for experienced researchers. 

2009-2012: Research funded by National Science Foundation. 

2001:  TAA-Harish-Chandra memorial best thesis award, TIFR.

1988:  All Indian Rank 2 in IIT-JEE. 

1987: 1st Prize in Mathematics Lecture Competition, Bangalore Science Forum, Bangalore.      

1986: Gold medal in Karnataka State Mathematics Olympiad. 

Past and Current Students and Post-docs:

 Postdocs: 

• Jitka Stehnova (2008-2009), Senior Lecturer, University of Chicago, USA.  

• Harald Grobner (2010-2011), Member, Faculty of Mathematics, University of Vienna, Austria. 

Ph.D. Students: 

• Naomi Tanabe (2012 PhD, OSU), Assistant Professor, Bowdoin College, USA.  

• Gunja Sachdeva (2017 PhD, IISER), Assistant Professor, BITS-Pilani-Goa. 

• Makarand Sarnobat (2019 PhD, IISER), Postdoc at IISER Bhopal. 

• Chaitanya Ambi (2019 PhD, IISER). Postdoc at CMI, Chennai.  

• Farid Hosseinijafari (Purdue University, joint advisee of Freydoon Shahidi; expected year of graduation: 2024)

• P. Narayanan (IISER Pune, joint advisee of Baskar Balasubramanyam; expected year of graduation: 2025)

• Nasit Darshan (IISER Pune, joint advisee of Chandrasheel Bhagwat; expected year of graduation: 2025) 

Masters Students: 

• Kenneth Ward (2009, MS by thesis from OSU) Deceased. 

• Punya Satpathy (2014, IISER Pune) PhD student at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA. 

• Shiva Chidambaram (2015, IISER Pune) Postdoc, Boston. 

• Papia Bera (2017, IISER Pune). 

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Languages:

Kannada   (Native)

English     (Fluent)

Hindi        (Fluent, especially in Kanpuriya dialect!)

German    (Ein bisschen)