Manindra Agrawal
Manindra Agrawal | |
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Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur | |
Doctoral advisor | Somenath Biswas |
Doctoral students | Neeraj Kayal Nitin Saxena |
Manindra Agrawal (born 20 May 1966) is an Indian
Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award in Mathematical Sciences in 2003. He has been honoured with Padma Shri, India's 4th highest civilian award, in 2013.[3][4]
Career
He created the
polynomial in n.[5]
In September 2008, Agrawal was chosen for the first Infosys Mathematics Prize for outstanding contributions in the broad field of mathematics.[6] He also served on the Mathematical Sciences jury for the Infosys Prize in 2014 and 2015. He was a visiting scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study in 2003-04.[7]
Agarwal served as the Deputy Director of IIT Kanpur from 2017 to 2021.
On, 19 April 2024 he was appointed as the
Director of IIT Kanpur.[8]
Awards and honors
- Clay Research Award (2002)
- S S Bhatnagar Prize in Mathematical Sciences (2003)
- ICTP Prize (2003)
- Fulkerson Prize (2006)
- Gödel Prize (2006)
- Infosys Prize (2008)
- G.D. Birla Award for Scientific Research(2009)
- TWAS Prize in Mathematics (2010)[9]
- Padma Shri (2013)
- Goyal Prize (2017)
References
- ^ "INSA Fellow". INSA. 2016. Archived from the original on 12 August 2016. Retrieved 13 May 2016.
- ^ Infosys Prize 2008 Archived 13 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "List of Padma awardees" (Press release). New Delhi: NDTV. 25 January 2013. Retrieved 28 January 2013.
- ^ "Possibility of Third Wave of COVID-19 in India Now Negligible, Says IIT Professor".
- ^ Agrawal, Manindra. "Publications". Retrieved 16 November 2010.
- ^ "Bangalore: IIT-Kanpur professor bags first Infosys Mathematics Prize". Mangalorean.com. 16 September 2008. Archived from the original on 14 July 2011.
- ^ Institute for Advanced Study: A Community of Scholars
- ^ "IIT-Kanpur, BHU, Guwahati, Dhanbad, Jodhpur, Goa get new directors". The Indian Express. 19 April 2024. Retrieved 19 April 2024.
- ^ "Prizes and Awards". The World Academy of Sciences. 2016.