Abhinav Kumar

Abhinav Kumar is Assistant Professor of Mathematics in Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Abhinav Kumar received the S.B. in EECS, mathematics and physics from MIT in 2002. A two-time Putnam Fellow, Kumar received the Jon A. Bucsela Prize for the strongest undergraduate in mathematics at MIT. Under the Harvard Putnam and Harvard GSAS fellowships, he completed the Harvard Ph.D. in mathematics in 2006. Noam Elkies and Barry Mazur were his doctoral advisors. At the Microsoft Research Theory group, Kumar had been a regular summer intern and visitor during his graduate years. He decided on a postdoctoral research appointment at Microsoft, 2006–07, before joining the MIT mathematics faculty as assistant professor in 2007. Professor Kumar...