Education
Harvard University; Saint Xavier"s College. Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur.
Harvard University; Saint Xavier"s College. Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur.
He is a professor of mathematics at the School of mathematics, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai for the past decade. Earlier, he was at the Harish-Chandra Research Institute in Allahabad for about a decade. He is a renowned number theorist known for his work in the areas of automorphic representations.
He is well known for "Gross-Prasad Conjectures" which have attracted a considerable interest among Number Theorists.
Apart from that he holds JC Bose fellowship awarded by the Department of Science and Technology, New Delhi. He is also a recipient of the Swarna Jayanti Fellowship in 1999.
Prasad obtained his Bachelor"s degree from the Saint Xavier"s College, Mumbai in 1978 before moving to the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur for a Masters which he completed in 1980. He then completed his Philosophy Doctor under the supervision of Benedict Gross at Harvard, in 1989.
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Fellow, Indian National Science Academy (2003).