Ananth Shankar

I am an Assistant Professor at Northwestern University My research is supported by a Sloan Research Fellowship and an NSF Career grant, "Algebraicity and Integral Models of Shimura Varieties".
I graduated with a BSc in Mathematics and Computer Science from Chennai Mathematical Institute in August, 2012. I was a PhD student at Harvard University under the supervision of Mark Kisin, and graduated in May 2017. Before joining Northwestern, I  was at MIT as a CLE Moore Instructor until July 2020, an Assistant Professor at UW Madison until June 2023, and a Von Neumann Fellow at the IAS from September 2025 to March 2026.

My research is in arithmetic geometry and number theory. You can find my papers here.

Here is a list of students and postdocs supervised and their research.