Prof. Chandrashekhar Khare
Professor of Mathematics, University of California, Los Angeles
Professor Khare after obtaining his Ph.D. from Caltech in 1995, he returned to India to work at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research. In 2005, he moved to the United States, first to the University of Utah and then to the University of California at Los Angeles, where he is now Professor of Mathematics. He received the Cole Prize in 2011, Infosys Prize in 2010, Guggenheim fellowship in 2008, Fermat prize in 2007, and the INSA Young Scientist Award in 1999. He was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians, held at Hyderabad in August 2010. In 2012, he became Fellow of the American Mathematical Society and was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society.