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<td><a href="/wiki/Stanford_University" title="Stanford University">Stanford University</a></td>
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<td><a href="/wiki/University_of_Michigan" title="University of Michigan">University of Michigan</a><br />
<a href="/wiki/Princeton_University" title="Princeton University">Princeton University</a></td>
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<td><a href="/wiki/Peter_Sarnak" title="Peter Sarnak">Peter Sarnak</a></td>
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<td><a href="/wiki/Ostrowski_Prize" title="Ostrowski Prize">Ostrowski Prize</a> (2011)<br />
<a href="/wiki/Infosys_Prize" title="Infosys Prize">Infosys Prize</a> (2011)<br />
<a href="/wiki/SASTRA_Ramanujan_Prize" title="SASTRA Ramanujan Prize">SASTRA Ramanujan Prize</a> (2005)<br />
<a href="/wiki/Salem_Prize" title="Salem Prize">Salem Prize</a> (2003)<br />
<a href="/wiki/Morgan_Prize" title="Morgan Prize">Morgan Prize</a> (1995)</td>
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<p><b>Kannan Soundararajan</b> is a <a href="/wiki/Mathematician" title="Mathematician">mathematician</a> and a professor of mathematics at <a href="/wiki/Stanford_University" title="Stanford University">Stanford University</a>. Before moving to Stanford in 2006, he was a faculty member at <a href="/wiki/University_of_Michigan" title="University of Michigan">University of Michigan</a> where he pursued his undergraduate studies. His main research interest is in <a href="/wiki/Analytic_number_theory" title="Analytic number theory">analytic number theory</a>, particularly in the subfields of <a href="/wiki/Automorphic_form" title="Automorphic form">automorphic</a> <a href="/wiki/L-function" title="L-function">L-functions</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Multiplicative_number_theory" title="Multiplicative number theory">multiplicative number theory</a>.</p>
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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1"><a href="#Early_life"><span class="tocnumber">1</span> <span class="toctext">Early life</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2"><a href="#Education"><span class="tocnumber">2</span> <span class="toctext">Education</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3"><a href="#Career"><span class="tocnumber">3</span> <span class="toctext">Career</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4"><a href="#Work"><span class="tocnumber">4</span> <span class="toctext">Work</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-5"><a href="#Awards"><span class="tocnumber">5</span> <span class="toctext">Awards</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-6"><a href="#Personal_life"><span class="tocnumber">6</span> <span class="toctext">Personal life</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-7"><a href="#Selected_publications"><span class="tocnumber">7</span> <span class="toctext">Selected publications</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-8"><a href="#References"><span class="tocnumber">8</span> <span class="toctext">References</span></a></li>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Early_life">Early life</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kannan_Soundararajan&amp;action=edit&amp;section=1" title="Edit section: Early life">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2>
<p>Soundararajan grew up in Chennai and was a student at Padma Seshadri High School in Nungambakkam in <a href="/wiki/Chennai" title="Chennai">Madras (now Chennai), India</a>. In 1989, he attended the prestigious <a href="/wiki/Research_Science_Institute" title="Research Science Institute">Research Science Institute</a>. He represented India at the <a href="/wiki/International_Mathematical_Olympiad" title="International Mathematical Olympiad">International Mathematical Olympiad</a> in 1991 and won a Silver Medal.</p>
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<p>Soundararajan joined the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Michigan" title="University of Michigan">University of Michigan</a>, Ann Arbor, in 1991 for undergraduate studies, and graduated with highest honours in 1995. Soundararajan won the inaugural <a href="/wiki/Morgan_Prize" title="Morgan Prize">Morgan Prize</a> in 1995 for his work in <a href="/wiki/Analytic_number_theory" title="Analytic number theory">analytic number theory</a> whilst an undergraduate at the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Michigan" title="University of Michigan">University of Michigan</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1">[1]</a></sup> where he later served as professor. He joined <a href="/wiki/Princeton_University" title="Princeton University">Princeton University</a> in 1995 and did his Ph.D under the guidance of Professor <a href="/wiki/Peter_Sarnak" title="Peter Sarnak">Peter Sarnak</a>. As a graduate student at Princeton, he held a prestigious Sloan Foundation Fellowship.</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Career">Career</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kannan_Soundararajan&amp;action=edit&amp;section=3" title="Edit section: Career">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2>
<p>After his Ph.D. he received the first five-year fellowship from the American Institute of Mathematics, and held positions at Princeton University, the Institute for Advanced Study, and the University of Michigan. He moved to <a href="/wiki/Stanford_University" title="Stanford University">Stanford University</a> in 2006 where he is currently a Professor of Mathematics and the Director of the Mathematics Research Center (MRC) at Stanford.</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Work">Work</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kannan_Soundararajan&amp;action=edit&amp;section=4" title="Edit section: Work">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2>
<p>He proved a conjecture of <a href="/wiki/Ronald_Graham_(mathematician)" class="mw-redirect" title="Ronald Graham (mathematician)">Ron Graham</a> in combinatorial number theory jointly with <a href="/wiki/Ramachandran_Balasubramanian" title="Ramachandran Balasubramanian">Ramachandran Balasubramanian</a>. He made important contributions in settling the arithmetic Quantum Unique Ergodicity conjecture for <a href="/wiki/Maass_wave_forms" class="mw-redirect" title="Maass wave forms">Maass wave forms</a> and <a href="/wiki/Modular_forms" class="mw-redirect" title="Modular forms">modular forms</a>.</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Awards">Awards</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kannan_Soundararajan&amp;action=edit&amp;section=5" title="Edit section: Awards">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2>
<p>He received the <a href="/wiki/Salem_Prize" title="Salem Prize">Salem Prize</a> in 2003 "for contributions to the area of <a href="/wiki/Dirichlet_L-function" title="Dirichlet L-function">Dirichlet L-functions</a> and related character sums". In 2005, he won the $10,000 <a href="/wiki/SASTRA_Ramanujan_Prize" title="SASTRA Ramanujan Prize">SASTRA Ramanujan Prize</a>, shared with <a href="/wiki/Manjul_Bhargava" title="Manjul Bhargava">Manjul Bhargava</a>, awarded by <a href="/wiki/SASTRA" class="mw-redirect" title="SASTRA">SASTRA</a> in <a href="/wiki/Thanjavur" title="Thanjavur">Thanjavur</a>, <a href="/wiki/India" title="India">India</a>, for his outstanding contributions to <a href="/wiki/Number_theory" title="Number theory">number theory</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2">[2]</a></sup> In 2011, he was awarded the Infosys science foundation prize 2011.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3">[3]</a></sup> He was awarded the Ostrowski prize<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4">[4]</a></sup> in 2011, shared with lb Madsen and <a href="/wiki/David_Preiss" title="David Preiss">David Preiss</a>, for a cornucopia of fundamental results in the last five years to go along with his brilliant earlier work.</p>
<p>He gave an <a href="/wiki/List_of_International_Congresses_of_Mathematicians_Plenary_and_Invited_Speakers" title="List of International Congresses of Mathematicians Plenary and Invited Speakers">invited talk at the International Congress of Mathematicians</a> in 2010, on the topic of "Number Theory".<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5">[5]</a></sup></p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Personal_life">Personal life</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kannan_Soundararajan&amp;action=edit&amp;section=6" title="Edit section: Personal life">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2>
<p>Soundararajan resides in Palo Alto, California with his wife and one son.</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Selected_publications">Selected publications</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kannan_Soundararajan&amp;action=edit&amp;section=7" title="Edit section: Selected publications">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2>
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<li><a href="/wiki/Roman_Holowinsky" title="Roman Holowinsky">R. Holowinsky</a> and K. Soundararajan, "Mass equidistribution for Hecke eigenforms," <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://arxiv.org/abs/0809.1636v1">arXiv:0809.1636v1</a></li>
<li>K. Soundararajan, "Nonvanishing of quadratic Dirichlet L-functions at s=1/2" <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://arxiv.org/abs/math/9902163">arXiv:math/9902163v2</a></li>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="References">References</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kannan_Soundararajan&amp;action=edit&amp;section=8" title="Edit section: References">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2>
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<li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.ams.org/notices/199603/comm-morgan.pdf">AMS-MAA-SIAM Frank and Brennie Morgan Prize for Outstanding Research in Mathematics by an Undergraduate Student.</a> <a href="/wiki/Notices_of_the_American_Mathematical_Society" title="Notices of the American Mathematical Society">Notices of the American Mathematical Society</a>, vol. 43 (1996), no. 3, pp. 323–324</span></li>
<li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://www.math.ufl.edu/~fgarvan/ramanujan/things/fsrp.html">http://www.math.ufl.edu/~fgarvan/ramanujan/things/fsrp.html</a></span></li>
<li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://www.infosys-science-foundation.com/prize/laureates/2011/kannan-soundararajan.asp">http://www.infosys-science-foundation.com/prize/laureates/2011/kannan-soundararajan.asp</a></span></li>
<li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://www.ostrowski.ch/pdf/preis2011.pdf">http://www.ostrowski.ch/pdf/preis2011.pdf</a></span></li>
<li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><cite class="citation web"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.mathunion.org/db/ICM/Speakers/SortedByCongress.php">"ICM Plenary and Invited Speakers since 1897"</a>. <a href="/wiki/International_Congress_of_Mathematicians" title="International Congress of Mathematicians">International Congress of Mathematicians</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AKannan+Soundararajan&amp;rft.btitle=ICM+Plenary+and+Invited+Speakers+since+1897&amp;rft.genre=unknown&amp;rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mathunion.org%2Fdb%2FICM%2FSpeakers%2FSortedByCongress.php&amp;rft.pub=International+Congress+of+Mathematicians&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook" class="Z3988"><span style="display:none;">&#160;</span></span></span></li>
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<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://math.stanford.edu/~ksound/">Homepage at Stanford University</a></li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.aimath.org/news/que/">Making Waves</a></li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=53166">Kannan Soundararajan</a> at the <a href="/wiki/Mathematics_Genealogy_Project" title="Mathematics Genealogy Project">Mathematics Genealogy Project</a></li>
<li><cite class="citation web"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.imo-official.org/participant_r.aspx?id=2755">"Kannan Soundararajan's results"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/International_Mathematical_Olympiad" title="International Mathematical Olympiad">International Mathematical Olympiad</a></i>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AKannan+Soundararajan&amp;rft.atitle=Kannan+Soundararajan%27s+results&amp;rft.genre=unknown&amp;rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.imo-official.org%2Fparticipant_r.aspx%3Fid%3D2755&amp;rft.jtitle=International+Mathematical+Olympiad&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal" class="Z3988"><span style="display:none;">&#160;</span></span></li>
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