Prof. Mahan Mj
Professor, School of Mathematics, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai
Prof. Mahan Mj is Senior Professor of Mathematics at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Mumbai. He is best known for his work in hyperbolic geometry, geometric group theory, low-dimensional topology, and complex geometry.
He was born Mahan Mitra in 1968 and went to St. Xavier’s Collegiate School in Kolkata. He went to IIT-Kanpur, initially to major in Electrical Engineering, but switched later to mathematics. He graduated with a Master’s degree in 1992. He received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1997. He is a monk of the Ramakrishna Order since 1998. He received the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar award in 2011, and the Infosys Prize (Mathematical Sciences) in 2015. He was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 2018 in Rio de Janeiro.
He is also a founding member of the Infosys-Chandrasekharan Virtual Centre for Random Geometry at the Tata Institute for Fundamental Research.