Shrawan Kumar is the John R. and Louise S. Parker distinguished professor of mathematics at the

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill A university () is an institution of higher (or tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines. ''University'' is derived from the Latin phrase ''universitas magistrorum et scholarium'', which r ...

. He has written two books: ''Kac-Moody groups, their flag varieties, and representation theory'' and ''Frobenius splitting methods in geometry and representation theory'' (jointly with ). Born and raised in

Ghazipur Ghazipur is a city in the state of Uttar Pradesh, India. Ghazipur city is the administrative headquarters of the Ghazipur district, one of the four districts that form the Varanasi division of Uttar Pradesh. The city of Ghazipur also constitute ...

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, Shrawan Kumar earned a Ph.D. in mathematics from the

University of Mumbai The University of Mumbai is a collegiate, state-owned, public research university in Mumbai. The University of Mumbai is one of the largest universities in the world. , the university had 711 affiliated colleges. Ratan Tata is the appointed ...

and the

Tata Institute of Fundamental Research Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) is a public deemed research university located in Mumbai, India that is dedicated to basic research in mathematics and the sciences. It is a Deemed University and works under the umbrella of the De ...

(TIFR), Mumbai in 1986. His advisor was

S. Ramanan Sundararaman Ramanan (born 20 July 1937) is an Indian mathematician who works in the area of algebraic geometry, moduli spaces and Lie groups. He is one of India's leading mathematicians and recognised as an expert in algebraic geometry, esp ...

. Shrawan Kumar is the younger brother of

Gopal Prasad Gopal Prasad (born 31 July 1945 in Ghazipur, India) is an Indian-American mathematician. His research interests span the fields of Lie groups, their discrete subgroups, algebraic groups, arithmetic groups, geometry of locally symmetric spaces ...

, a professor of mathematics at the

University of Michigan , mottoeng = "Arts, Knowledge, Truth" , former_names = Catholepistemiad, or University of Michigania (1817–1821) , budget = $10.3 billion (2021) , endowment = $17 billion (2021)As o ...

, and the elder brother of

Dipendra Prasad Dipendra Prasad (born 1960) is an Indian mathematician. He is a professor 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� ...

, a professor of mathematics at the

. In 2012 he became a fellow of the

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.List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society
retrieved 2013-01-27.

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* 1953 births Living people 20th-century Indian mathematicians University of Mumbai alumni University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill faculty Tata Institute of Fundamental Research alumni Fellows of the American Mathematical Society People from Ghazipur Scientists from Uttar Pradesh {{US-mathematician-stub