Govindan Rangarajan


Govindan Rangarajan is currently Chair, Division of Interdisciplinary Research at the Indian Institute of Science at Bangalore, India. He is also Director, Indo-French Centre for Applied Mathematics, the first Unités Mixtes Internationales of CNRS, France in India. He is a Professor at the Department of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Science. He will be succeeding Prof Anurag Kumar as the next Director of IISc from August 1st.
Govindan Rangarajan obtained his Integrated M.Sc. degree from the Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani in 1985, and his Ph.D. degree from the University of Maryland, College Park in 1990. He was a Staff Scientist in the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley in the US before joining the Indian Institute of Science as an Assistant Professor in 1992. His research areas include nonlinear dynamics and chaos, time series analysis, and computational biology.

Awards and recognition

Prof. Rangarajan was awarded the Homi Bhabha Fellowship in 2001. He was awarded the Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Palmes Academiques by the Government of France in 2006. This Order was instituted by Napoleon in 1808. He has been elected Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences, India. Prof. 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 period 2011-2021. He is a recipient of the BITS Distinguished Alumnus Award.

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