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Kavita Ramanan

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Kavita Ramanan
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Doctoral advisorPaul Dupuis
Academic work
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Kavita Ramanan is a probability theorist who works as a professor of applied mathematics at Brown University.

Education and career

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Ramanan was born in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India to Anuradha Ramanan and algebraic geometer S. Ramanan.[1] Ramanan earned a bachelor's degree in chemical engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay in 1992. She completed her Ph.D. in applied mathematics at Brown University in 1996.[2] Her dissertation, supervised by Paul Dupuis, was Construction and Large Deviation Analysis of Constrained Processes, with Applications to Communication Networks.[3]

After postdoctoral studies at the Technion, she worked at Bell Labs from 1997 to 2002, and as a faculty member in mathematical sciences at Carnegie Mellon University from 2002 to 2009. She returned to Brown as a faculty member in 2010.[2]

Recognition

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Ramanan won the Erlang Prize of the Applied Probability Society of INFORMS in 2006.[4] She was elected as a fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics in 2013,[5] and elected to the 2018 class of fellows of the American Mathematical Society[6] and the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences.[7] She gave the 2015 Medallion lecture for the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, on "Infinite-dimensional scaling limits of stochastic networks".[8] In 2019, Ramanan was elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).[9] In 2020 she was elected a fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics with the citation "Kavita Ramanan, Brown University, is being recognized for contributions to constrained and reflected processes and stochastic networks."[10]

She received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2020.[11] She was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2021.[12] She was awarded a Distinguished Research Achievement Award from Brown University in 2021,[13] and she was named to the Department of Defense's Class of 2021 Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellows.[14] She was appointed Senior Scholar at the Clay Mathematics Institute January–June 2022.[15]

References

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  1. ^ "Biographies of Candidates 2014" (PDF). American Mathematical Society.
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b Curriculum vitae (PDF), archived from the original (PDF) on 2017-11-07, retrieved 2017-11-04
  3. ^ Kavita Ramanan at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  4. ^ Erlang Prize, INFORMS, retrieved 2017-11-03
  5. ^ "Ramanan named IMS Fellow", News from Brown, Brown University, April 25, 2013, retrieved 2017-11-04
  6. ^ 2018 Class of the Fellows of the AMS, American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2017-11-03
  7. ^ Fellows: Alphabetical List, Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences, archived from the original on 2019-05-10, retrieved 2019-10-09
  8. ^ "Medallion Lecture preview: Kavita Ramanan", IMS Bulletin, Institute of Mathematical Statistics, May 17, 2015, archived from the original on 2017-10-30, retrieved 2017-11-04
  9. ^ "AAAS".
  10. ^ "SIAM Announces Class of 2020 Fellow". Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics. Retrieved 31 March 2020.
  11. ^ "Guggenheim Fellowship in 2020".
  12. ^ "New Members Elected in 2021". American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 2021-04-22.
  13. ^ "Professor Kavita Ramanan receives a Distinguished Research Achievement Award". Applied Mathematics. Archived from the original on 2021-07-11. Retrieved 2021-07-11.
  14. ^ "2021 Class of Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellowship".
  15. ^ "Kavita Ramanan | Clay Mathematics Institute". www.claymath.org. Retrieved 2022-05-28.
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