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Dinakar Ramakrishnan

Taussky-Todd-Lonergan Professor of Mathematics, Emeritus
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Ph.D., Columbia University, 1980. Professor, Caltech, 1988-2007; Taussky-Todd-Lonergan Professor, 2007-2022; Taussky-Todd-Lonergan Professor, Emeritus, 2022-; Executive Officer, 2013-16.
Research Areas: Mathematics

Dinakar works in Number Theory. His main research interests are in automorphic forms, arithmetical algebraic geometry, and representation theory of p-adic groups. In particular, he is interested in understanding these fields from multiple perspectives: algebraic, analytic, and geometric.