Dipendra Prasad

Prof. Dipendra Prasad is a number theorist who specializes in automorphic forms and representation theory. After completing his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1989, Prof. Prasad was with the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research in Mumbai, and the Harish-Chandra Research Institute in Allahabad, and is presently at the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. Prasad is a Fellow of all three science academies in India and is also a Fellow of the World Academy of Sciences (TWAS). He is a recipient of the Swarna Jayanti fellowship, the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar award, the JC Bose fellowship, and the TWAS prize. Dipendra Prasad was an ICM speaker in 2018 at Rio de Janeiro. He held the Jean Morlet Chaire at CIRM, Luminy in 2016, and was the principal investigator for a mega grant at St. Petersburg University from 2018-2022.