Curriculum Vitae


Educational Qualifications
 
  1. A.I.H.S. (High School), 1977,
    First Class with distinction,
    Sardar Patel Vidyalaya, New Delhi, India.
  2. M.Sc. (5-year Integrated), 1982,
    First Class First with distinction,
    Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India.
  3. Ph.D. ,1992,
    (Thesis submitted in 1989 based on work done at TIFR),
    University of Bombay, Bombay, India.
Awards
 
  1. Junior Science Talent Search Scholarship, 1974.
  2. Math Olympiad, DMTU, Delhi 1976.
  3. National Science Talent Search Scholarship, NCERT, 1977.
  4. General Proficiency Prize for Mathematics, I.I.T. Kanpur, 1982.
  5. IMU grant for ICM 1990, IMU, 1990.
  6. Associateship of Indian Academy of Sciences 1992-95, IAS, 1992.
  7. Fellowship of Indian Academy of Sciences Bangalore, 1997.
  8. Fellowship of National Academy of Sciences Allahabad, 1999.
  9. B. M. Birla award for young scientists, 1999.
  10. DST Swarnajayanti Grant, 2001.
  11. Associate of the ICTP, Trieste, 1999-2001.
  12. NBHM National Lecturer, India, 2004-2005.
  13. Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award, 2005.
  14. Debian Developer, 2007.
  15. Fellowship of Indian National Science Academy, New Delhi, 2009.
  16. J. C. Bose Fellowship, 2010.
Employer
 Indian Institute of Science, Education and Research, Mohali (on lien from Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai.)
Position
 Visiting Faculty
Positions held
 
  1. Research Assistant, TIFR (1982 to 1987)
  2. Research Associate, TIFR (1987 to 1989).
  3. Fellow, TIFR (1989 to 1993).
  4. Reader, TIFR (1993 to 1998; on long leave from Nov. 1995).
  5. Professor, ISI (Nov. 1995 to Aug. 1996).
  6. Associate Professor, IMsc (Sep. 1996 to Aug. 2003).
  7. Professor, IMSc (Sep. 2003 to March 2011).
  8. Visiting Faculty, IISER Mohali (Sep. 2009 to March 2011) (on lien from IMSc).
  9. Professor, IISER, Mohali (April 2011 to date).
Professional Experience
 
  1. Visiting Member, Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Madras, India (Dec. 1984).
  2. Exchange visitor (Indo-French programme), Université de Paris VII, Paris, France (Nov.-Dec. 1989).
  3. Visiting Member, Max-Planck-Institut für Mathematik, Bonn, Germany (Jan.-June 1990).
  4. Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of Chicago, Chicago, U.S.A. (Oct. 1990 to Sept. 1991).
  5. Exchange visitor (IFCPAR), Université de Paris-Sud, Orsay, France (May-Jun. 1993).
  6. Visiting Scientist, FB Mathematik, Universtät Essen (GHS), Essen, Gemany (June-July 1993).
  7. Visitor Scientist, Mathematics Research Centre, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK (July 1996).
  8. Exchange visitor (IFCPAR), Université de Paris-Sud, Orsay, France (July-Aug. 1998).
  9. Visiting Scientist, Department of Mathematics, California Institute of Technology, USA (May 2001).
  10. Visiting Scientist, Department of Mathematics, California Institute of Technology, USA (Feb. 2004).
  11. Visiting Scientist, Department of Mathematics, California Institute of Technology, USA (April-May 2005).
  12. Visiting Professor, TIFR, Mumbai, India (June 2005).
  13. Visiting Scientist, Department of Mathematics, California Institute of Technology, USA (February 2006).
  14. Visiting Professor, Department of Mathematics, California Institute of Technology, USA (Winter Quarter 2007).
  15. Visiting Scientist, Department of Mathematics, California Institute of Technology, USA (May-June 2009).
Editorships/International Bodies
 
  1. Member, The Mathematics Advisory Board of arXiv.org, since March 2002.
Workshops & Conferences
 
  1. D.A.E. Summer School on Global Analysis, 1980, Mysore, India.
  2. D.A.E. Summer School on Algebraic Curves, 1981, Pune, India.
  3. C.T.S. Workshop on String Theory, 1988, Bangalore, India.
  4. Indo-French Conference on Geometry, 1989, Bombay, India.
  5. Algebraic Geometry and Analytic Geometry, 1990, Bayreuth, Germany.
  6. Summer School on Hodge Theory, 1990, Bangalore, India.
  7. Algebraic Geometry and Analytic Geometry, 1990, Tokyo, Japan.
  8. International Congress of Mathematicians, 1990, Kyoto, Japan.
  9. AMS Conference on Motives, 1991, Seattle, U.S.A.
  10. Second Utah conference on Higher Dimensional Geometry, 1991, Salt Lake City, U.S.A.
  11. Workshop on Operator Algebras, Complex analysis etc. JNCASR-ISI, 1995, Bangalore, India.
  12. Euroconference on Algebraic Geometry, University of Warwick, 1996, Coventry, UK.
  13. Topology and Geometry conference, JNCASR-ISI, 1996, Bangalore, India.
  14. First National Conference on Comm. Alg. and Alg. Geom., Kodaikanal observatory, February 1998.
  15. ICM Satellite conference on Algebraic Geometry, Essen, Germany, August 1998.
  16. Second National Conference on Comm. Alg. and Alg. Geom., MRI, Allahabad, February 1999.
  17. Second Conference on the Future of Mathematical Communication, Univ. of Cal., Berkeley, USA, December 1999.
  18. International Colloquium on Arithmetic, Algebra and Geometry, TIFR, Mumbai, India, January 2000.
  19. Conference on Vanishing Theorems and Effective Results in Algebraic Geometry, ICTP, Trieste, Italy, May 2000.
  20. Mini-Symposium on Motives, IMSc, Chennai, July-August 2000.
  21. International Conference on Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry, University of Hyderabad, November 2001.
  22. INDOCRYPT, 2001, IIT, Chennai, December 2001.
  23. CEIC Workshop on Electronic Communication of Mathematics, Vancouver, February 2002.
  24. Workshop on Spaces of Non-positive curvature, IMSc, Chennai, July 2002.
  25. Workshop on Cryptology, ISI, Delhi, September 2002.
  26. Fifth National meeting on Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry (CAAG V), IIT, Mumbai, April 2003.
  27. Workshop and conference on the Arithmetic, Geometry and Topology of Algebraic Cycles, UNAM, Morelia, Mexico, June-July 2003.
  28. International Conference on Algebra and Number Theory, University of Hyderabad, December 2003.
  29. Joint India-AMS meeting, Bangalore, December 2003.
  30. INDOCRYPT, 2004, IMSc, Chennai, December 2004.
  31. IIT Kanpur, Hacker’s Meet, 2005, IIT, Kanpur, March 2005.
  32. Sixth National meeting on Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry (CAAG VI), IMSc, Chennai, August 2005.
  33. ASIACRYPT, 2005, Taj Coromandel, Chennai, December 2005.
  34. Conference on Vector Bundles and Algebraic Geometry 2006, TIFR, Mumbai, 2006.
  35. International Mathematical Congress 2006, Madrid, Spain, 2006.
  36. National meeting of the Ramanujan Mathematical Society, Suratkal, 2007.
  37. Seventh National meeting on Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry (CAAG VII), Bangalore, 2007.
  38. Conference on Cycles, Motives and Shimura Varieties, TIFR, Mumbai, 2008.
  39. Conference on Perspectives in Mathematics, ISI, Bangalore, 2008.
  40. First Indo-Brazil Conference on Mathematics, IMPA, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2008.
  41. First RMS-SMF Indo-French Conference on Mathematics, 2008, IMSc, Chennai, 2008.
  42. Ninth National meeting on Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry (CAAG IX), IIT, Chennai, 2009.
Graduate-level Teaching experience
 
  1. Lecture course on Algebraic Surfaces, July-Sept. 1989, TIFR, Bombay.
  2. Lecture course on Higher dimensional geometry, April-June 1991, Univ. of Chicago, Chicago, USA.
  3. Lectures on the Endomorphism ring of an Elliptic curve in NBHM Workshop on Elliptic curves, Sep. 1991, Bombay.
  4. Lecture course on Homotopy theory, Nov. 1992-Apr. 1993, TIFR, Bombay.
  5. Lectures on Abelian varieties in PICMA Workshop on Arithmetic Algebraic Geometry, Feb. 1993, Tehran, Iran.
  6. Lectures on various topics in algebraic geometry in Instructional Workshop on Algebraic Geometry, April 1994, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India.
  7. Lectures on Morse Theory in Instructional Workshop on Non-linear Functional Analysis, Jan-Feb 1997, Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai, India.
  8. Lectures on various topics in algebraic geometry in Instructional Workshop on Algebraic Geometry, April 1997, S. N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, Calcutta, India.
  9. Lecture course on Riemann Surfaces, January-April 2000, IMSc, Chennai.
  10. Lecture course on Algebraic Geometry, December 2000, HBCSE, Mumbai.
  11. Lecture course on Differential Geometry, January-April 2001, IMSc, Chennai.
  12. Lecture course on Cryptology, January-April 2002, IMSc, Chennai.
  13. Lecture course on Algebraic Topology, Sept.-Dec. 2004, IMSc, Chennai.
  14. Lecture course on Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry, Sept.-Dec. 2004, IMSc, Chennai.
  15. Lecture course on Topics in Algebraic Geometry, in the Advanced Training School, IIT, Mumbai July 2005.
  16. Lecture course on Projective Geometry, Sept.-Dec. 2005, IMSc, Chennai.
  17. Lecture course on Practical Cryptosystems, in Training School on Cryptography, Theory and Practice, IMSc, Chennai July 2006.
  18. Lecture course on Elliptic curves with Complex Multiplication, Caltech, Pasadena, USA, 2007.
  19. Lecture course on Some Geometric Constructions, in Advanced Training School, IIT, Chennai, June 2007.
  20. Undergraduate Mathematics (instructor and co-ordinator) NBHM Nurture Programme 2007, IMSc, Chennai, July 2007.
  21. Undergraduate Mathematics (instructor and co-ordinator) NBHM Nurture Programme 2008, IMSc, Chennai, July 2008.
  22. Lecture course on Algebra, IMSc, Chennai Aug-Nov 2008.
  23. Lecture course on Functors, Monads and Programming, IMSc, Chennai Jan-Feb 2009.