Rahul Pandharipande (born 1969 in Amravati, India) is a mathematician at Princeton University, working in algebraic geometry, especially Gromov-Witten theory.

His father Vijay Raghunath Pandharipande was a renowned theoretical physicist worked in the area of nuclear physics.

He received his B.A. from Princeton University in 1990, and his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1994. His advisor at Harvard was Joe Harris. After teaching at the University of Chicago and the California Institute of Technology, he joined the faculty at Princeton in 2001.

He frequently collaborates with Fields medalist Andrei Okounkov.

External links

* Rahul Pandharipande at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
* Curriculum Vitae