Ritabrata Munshi
Professor, Theoretical Statistics and Mathematics Unit, ISI, Kolkata
Prof. Ritabrata Munshi is a professor at the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata. Before joining ISI he was affiliated with the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai. He obtained his Ph.D. under the guidance of the mathematician Andrew Wiles. From 2009-2010 he was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.
Prof. Munshi is a number theorist known for his contributions to the sub-convexity problem for automorphic L-functions. Among the many awards that Prof. Munshi has received are Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology in 2015, the Infosys Prize in 2017, the ICTP Ramanujan Prize in 2018 and the J.C. Bose Fellowship in 2021. Prof. Munshi was an ICM speaker in 2018 at Rio de Janeiro. He was elected as fellow of the Indian National Science Academy in 2020. Ritabrata Munshi is on the editorial board of Mathematische Annalen, The Journal of the Ramanujan Mathematical Society and the Hardy-Ramanujan journal.