Dipendra Prasad

Dipendra Prasad (born 1960) is an Indian mathematician. He is an Emeritus Fellow of mathematics at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay. He is a number theorist known for his work in the areas of automorphic representations and the Gan–Gross–Prasad conjecture. He was the president of Commission for Developing Countries (CDC) of International Mathematical Union (2018–2022) and of Indian Math Society (2021–2022). Presently, he is the Chairman of the National Board of Higher Mathematics (NBHM) in India.

Two of his siblings, Gopal Prasad and Shrawan Kumar, are also mathematicians.

Education Prasad obtained his bachelor's degree from the St. Xavier's College, Mumbai in 1978 before moving to the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur for a Masters which he completed in 1980. From 1980–1985, Prasad worked as a research scholar at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai (TIFR Mumbai).

Career From 1989–1997, Prasad was a research assistant, fellow, and then reader at TIFR Mumbai. In 2019, Prasad moved to the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay.

Awards In recognition of his contributions, the Government of India awarded him the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize in mathematical sciences for 2002. In 2010 he was awarded the JC Bose of the Department of Science and Technology, New Delhi. He is also a recipient of the Swarna Jayanti Fellowship in 1999. Srinivasa Ramanujan Birth Centenary Award of The Indian Science Congress Association (ISCA), 2005. Fellow, Indian National Science Academy (2003). Fellow, Indian Academy of Sciences (1995).

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