Background
Gopakumar was born in 1967 to Jaishree and G. Gopakumar in Kolkata.
Gopakumar was born in 1967 to Jaishree and G. Gopakumar in Kolkata.
He received his Doctor of Philosophy from Princeton University in 1997 under the supervision of David Gross.
He has previously been a professor at Harish-Chandra Institute (HRI) in Allahabad, India. He is known for his work on topological string theory. His family hails from the southern Indian state of Kerala.
He has the distinction being ranked 1 in the entrance examination for the Indian Institute of Technology in 1987.
Gopakumar obtained his integrated Master of Science degree in Physics from the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur in 1992. After a few years as a research associate at Harvard University, he joined HRI in 2001.
He was also a Visiting Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey from 2001 to 2004. Gopakumar is a string theorist.
His research is primarily focused on topological string theory.
He is known for proposing with Cumrun Vafa the Gopakumar–Vafa duality and Gopakumar–Vafa invariants.