Anish Ghosh is a professor in the School of Mathematics at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Mumbai. He specialises in ergodic theory, Lie groups and number theory and has greatly contributed in these areas of mathematics.
He is a part of the INFOSYS-Chandrasekharan Virtual Centre for Random Geometry which is a group of scientists at TIFR, Mumbai and ICTS, Bengaluru working together.
Ghosh finished his BSc degree from St. Xavier’s College, Mumbai and received his PhD degree from the Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts in 2006. His research supervisor was Dmitry Yanovich Kleinbock, renowned mathematician from Brandeis University. He did post-doctoral studies at the University of Texas at Austin. After that he started his teaching career as Lecturer in the University of East Anglia, U.K. He then moved on to the Tata Institute.
Anish Ghosh bagged the 2021 Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize in Mathematical Sciences, India’s highest science award within the country. He was also awarded the NASI-Scopus Young Scientist Award in 2017, DST Swarnajayanti Fellowship in 2017, Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences in 2018 and B M Birla Science Prize in 2017.
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