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Hi! I'm Sridhar Venkatesh, an Assistant Adjunct Professor (Postdoc) at UCLA, mentored by Joaquín Moraga. Starting July 2026, I will be a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Utah.
Previously, I was a PhD student at the University of Michigan advised by Mircea Mustaţă.

Research interests: Algebraic geometry. In particular: higher Du Bois and higher rational singularities, Hodge modules, toric varieties, derived categories.

Here is my CV (last updated: Apr 29, 2026), arXiv, Google Scholar.

Email: srivenk[at]math[dot]ucla[dot]edu

Research

A Looming of phantoms (with Kimoi Kemboi, Daniel Krashen, Tianle Liu, Yeqin Liu, Eoin Mackall, Svetlana Makarova, Alexander Perry, Antonios-Alexandros Robotis). Submitted (2025). (arXiv)
Measuring birational derived splinters (with Timothy De Deyn, Pat Lank, Kabeer Manali-Rahul). Bull. Lond. Math. Soc. 58: e70362. (2026). (journal) (arXiv)
Simple criteria for higher rational singularities (with Sándor Kovács, Pat Lank). (2025). (arXiv).
Lefschetz morphisms on singular cohomology and local cohomological dimension of toric varieties (with Hyunsuk Kim). Submitted (2025). (arXiv).
Local cohomology and singular cohomology of toric varieties via mixed Hodge modules (with Hyunsuk Kim). Submitted (2025). (arXiv).
Measuring rationality of Schwede--Takagi pairs (with Pat Lank, Peter McDonald). J. Pure Appl. Algebra Volume 230, Issue 6 (2026). (journal) (arXiv).
Triangulated characterizations of singularities (with Pat Lank). Nagoya Math. J. 261:e3. (2026). (journal) (arXiv).
The intersection cohomology Hodge module of toric varieties (with Hyunsuk Kim). Submitted (2024). (arXiv).
Local vanishing for toric varieties (with Wanchun Shen, Anh Duc Vo), Manuscripta Math. 175, 617–634 (2024). (journal) (arXiv).
On k-Du Bois and k-rational singularities (with Wanchun Shen, Anh Duc Vo). To appear in Ann. Inst. Fourier (Grenoble). (arXiv).

Other writing

Hodge Theoretic Singularities and Hodge Theoretic Aspects of Toric Varieties. PhD thesis (2025). Link.
Duality of differential operators and algebraic de Rham cohomology (with Caleb Ji, Casimir Kothari, Oliver Li, Svetlana Makarova, Shubhankar Sahai). (2024). arXiv.
(This came out of the 2023 Stacks Project Workshop.)
On Lengths of F_2[x,y,z]/(x^{d_1}, y^{d_2},z^{d_3}, x+y+z) (with Fiona Han, Jenny Kenkel, Daniel Li, Ashley Wiles). (2024). arXiv.
(This came out of a LoG(M) undergrad project done by Fiona, Daniel, Ashley, where Jenny and I were the mentors.)

Upcoming travel

Junior Algebraic Geometry Workshop, UCLA, Jul 13-17, 2026.