Talks

Technical

• 2026-06-20 Teaching logical statements at the undergraduate level: Why one common definition gets in the way. Conference on the Practice of Teaching Undergraduate Mathematics (Krea University, Sri City).
• 2026-06-10 Intersection Graphs and Path Representations. 15th E. Sampathkumar Memorial Endowment Lecture. Annual Conference of the ADMA & International Conference on Discrete Mathematics (IIT Madras).
• 2026-06-02 Tight bounds on the Carathéodory and exchange numbers for \(\triangle\)-convexity spaces. Annual Meru Combinatorics Conference (IIT Bhilai).
• 2026-04-04 Competency-based Learning in Mathematics. Session at the STEM Teacher Training Program, organized (in association with Jodhpur Zila Parishad and Shiksha Vibhag) by the Centre for Education Technology (IIT Jodhpur).
• 2025-12-01 Nonstandard analysis: a gentle introduction. Discussion Meeting on Number Theory and Combinatorics (Evolve Back, Coorg).
• 2025-05-15 Bisection-closed families, tournaments, and symmetric designs. Geometry, Probability, and Algorithms (ICTS Bengaluru). [recording]
• 2025-04-28 Sunflowers and symmetric designs. Research seminar (IIT Jodhpur).
• 2024-11-21 Sunflowers and symmetric designs. Research Associate Seminar (ISI Bangalore Centre, Theoretical Statistics and Mathematics Unit).
• 2024-06-01 Some recent work on fractional intersecting families. Annual Meru Combinatorics Conference (Graphic Era Hill University, Bhimtal).
• 2024-05-29 Sunflowers, tournaments, and symmetric designs. Institute Post-Doctoral Fellowship Seminar (IIT Bombay).
• 2024-03-02 Some recent work on fractional intersecting families. CSE Research Symposium (IIT Palakkad).

Popular & expository

• 2026-06-12 What Is Combinatorial Thinking? Summer School for Women in Mathematics and Statistics (ICTS Bengaluru). [YouTube]
• 2026-05-12 A Combinatorial Gem of Maryam Mirzakhani: List Colorings of Planar Graphs. One Day Symposium Celebrating Women in Mathematics (IIT Jodhpur).
• 2025-12-22 Counting the Infinite. Guest lecture on the occasion of National Mathematics Day (online; “Prime Minister College of Excellence” Government College Makroniya Bujurg, Sagar, Madhya Pradesh).

Student talks

• 2026-06-07 Yash Chawda. On the Majority Game Chromatic Number of Trees. Annual Conference of the ADMA & International Conference on Discrete Mathematics (IIT Madras).
• 2026-06-07 Vishnu Kumar. Tight Bounds on the Carathéodory and Exchange Numbers in \(\triangle\)-Convexity. Annual Conference of the ADMA & International Conference on Discrete Mathematics (IIT Madras).

Events organized

• 2026-05-16 Screening of Secrets of the Surface: The Mathematical Vision of Maryam Mirzakhani, a documentary film by George Csicsery. Organized under the Mathematics Society as a follow-up to the One Day Symposium Celebrating Women in Mathematics (IIT Jodhpur).
• 2026-03-08 Career Opportunities Beyond Academia: One-day interaction session with industry professionals; talks by Sagar Sawant and Priyanka Magar-Sawant (mathematicians at Raphe mPhibr Pvt. Ltd.) on transitioning from academia to industry research. Organized under the Mathematics Society (IIT Jodhpur).
• 2026-02-26 An Introductory Workshop on the Lean Theorem Prover. Three-day workshop on the Lean theorem prover, led by T. V. H. Prathamesh (Krea University); co-organized with Dilpreet Kaur and Kriti Goel (IIT Jodhpur).

Professional service

Reviewing

I review papers regularly for the following journals, conferences, and databases:

• Indian Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics
• Acta Informatica
• Proceedings – Mathematical Sciences
• Conference on Algorithms and Discrete Applied Mathematics (CALDAM)
• MathSciNet
• zbMATH Open

Memberships

• Affiliate Member, American Mathematical Society
• Associate Fellow, Institute of Combinatorics and its Applications
• Life Member, Academy of Discrete Mathematics and Applications
• Life Member, Indian Mathematical Society
• Life Member, Mathematics Teachers' Association (India) — supports mathematics education and conducts the Indian Olympiad Qualifier in Mathematics (IOQM)
• Advisory Board (past), Heliyon Mathematics(Cell Press), September 2024 to February 2025

Research grants

• 2026– Research Initiation Grant (RIG), IIT Jodhpur. Rs. 4,00,000. Principal Investigator.

Awards & honors

• 2024 Institute Post-Doctoral Fellowship, IIT Bombay.
• 2018 NBHM Research Award, National Board for Higher Mathematics.
• 2017 Joint CSIR–UGC National Eligibility Test for Junior Research Fellowship (CSIR–HRDG); All-India Rank 20/600 (Mathematical Science).
• 2017 Director's Gold Medal, IISER Bhopal. Awarded for outstanding all-round achievement and leadership in the BS–MS graduating class in all disciplines.
• 2016 Invited to Rashtrapati Bhavan for the “In-Residence” Program for Scholars from IITs, IISERs, and IISc Bangalore. [press release] [NDTV interview]
• 2015, 2016 IASc–INSA–NASI Summer Research Fellowship.
• 2015 Member of the Indian contingent at the World Science Conference, Israel. [my interview of Nobel laureate Robert Aumann]
• 2012 INSPIRE Scholarship for Higher Education (SHE), Department of Science and Technology. Awarded for the BS–MS program at IISER Bhopal.

Institutional service

IIT Jodhpur

• 2025– Faculty Advisor, Mathematics Society, Board of Departmental Societies.
• 2025– Member, Departmental Undergraduate Committee (DUGC).
• 2025 Member, Department-level committee for projection of new B.S. program in Mathematics and Computing.

IIT Bombay

• 2023 Coordinator, Students' Seminar, Department of Mathematics.

IISER Bhopal

• 2016 President, Students Activity Council.
• 2013–2015 Coordinator, Mathematics Club.