Govindan Rangarajan

Rangarajan is an Honorary Professor of the Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore, India. He has been awarded the J.C. Bose National Fellowship for the 2011-2021 decade. He is also a recipient of the BITS Distinguished Alumnus Award.

Rangarajan has also served as the chairman of the Department of Mathematics and Convener, Digital Information Services Centre from 2002 to 2008. He was the chairman of the International Relations Cell (now called the Office of International Relations) from 2008 to 2014. Most recently, he was chaired the Division of Interdisciplinary Research, comprising 10 departments and centres, from 2014 to 2020. He also headed IISc’s fundraising and alumni outreach efforts in his role as Chairman of the Office of Development and Alumni Affairs from 2015 to 2020.

Rangarajan was awarded the Homi Bhabha Fellowship in 2001. He was also awarded the Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Palmes Academiques (Knight of the Order of Academic Palms) by the Government of France in 2006. He has been elected a Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences, India.

Rangarajan obtained his integrated Master of Science degree with honours from Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani, in 1985, and his PhD degree from the University of Maryland, College Park, in 1990. He was a Staff Scientist in the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, before joining the Indian Institute of Science as an Assistant Professor in 1992.

Govindan Rangarajan (b. 18 September 1963) is an Indian mathematician, academician, and a professor. He is currently serving as the Director of the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) at Bangalore, India and as a professor in the Department of Mathematics at the same.