1. Kannan Soundararajan was born on December 27,1973 and is an Indian-born American mathematician and a professor of mathematics at Stanford University.
12 Facts About Kannan Soundararajan
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Kannan Soundararajan represented India at the International Mathematical Olympiad in 1991 and won a Silver Medal.
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Kannan Soundararajan joined the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in 1991 for undergraduate studies, and graduated with highest honours in 1995.
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Kannan Soundararajan won the inaugural Morgan Prize in 1995 for his work in analytic number theory while an undergraduate at the University of Michigan, where he later served as professor.
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Kannan Soundararajan joined Princeton University in 1995 and did his Ph.
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Kannan Soundararajan moved to Stanford University in 2006 where he is, as of November 2022, the Anne T and Robert M Bass Professor of Mathematics.
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Kannan Soundararajan received the Salem Prize in 2003 "for contributions to the area of Dirichlet L-functions and related character sums".
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Kannan Soundararajan was awarded the Ostrowski prize in 2011, shared with Ib Madsen and David Preiss, for a cornucopia of fundamental results in the last five years to go along with his brilliant earlier work.
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Kannan Soundararajan gave an invited talk at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 2010, on the topic of "Number Theory".
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In July 2017, Kannan Soundararajan was a plenary lecturer in the Mathematical Congress of the Americas.
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Kannan Soundararajan was elected to the 2018 class of fellows of the American Mathematical Society.
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Kannan Soundararajan was invited as a plenary speaker of the 2022 International Congress of Mathematicians, scheduled to take place in Saint Petersburg, but moved to Helsinki and online because of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.