Kavita Ramanan is a probability theorist who works as a professor of applied mathematics at

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Education and career

Ramanan was born in

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, India to Anuradha Ramanan and algebraic geometer

S. Ramanan Sundararaman Ramanan (born 20 July 1937) is an Indian mathematician who works in the area of algebraic geometry, moduli spaces and Lie groups. He is one of India's leading mathematicians and recognised as an expert in algebraic geometry, esp ...

. Ramanan earned a bachelor's degree in

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at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay in 1992. She completed her Ph.D. in applied mathematics at Brown University in 1996. Her dissertation, supervised by Paul Dupuis, was ''Construction and Large Deviation Analysis of Constrained Processes, with Applications to Communication Networks''. After postdoctoral studies at the Technion, she worked at

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from 1997 to 2002, and as a faculty member in mathematical sciences at

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from 2002 to 2009. She returned to Brown as a faculty member in 2010.

Recognition

Ramanan won the Erlang Prize of the Applied Probability Society of

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in 2006. She was elected as a

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of the

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in 2013, and elected to the 2018 class of fellows of the

American Mathematical Society The American Mathematical Society (AMS) is an association of professional mathematicians dedicated to the interests of mathematical research and scholarship, and serves the national and international community through its publications, meetings, ...

and the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences. She gave the 2015 Medallion lecture for the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, on "Infinite-dimensional scaling limits of stochastic networks". In 2019, Ramanan was elected fellow of the

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(AAAS). In 2020 she was elected a

of the

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with the citation "Kavita Ramanan, Brown University, is being recognized for contributions to constrained and reflected processes and stochastic networks." She received a

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in 2020. She was elected to the

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in 2021. She was awarded a Distinguished Research Achievement Award from Brown University in 2021, and she was named to the Department of Defense's Class of 2021 Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellows. She was appointed Senior Scholar at the

Clay Mathematics Institute The Clay Mathematics Institute (CMI) is a private, non-profit foundation (nonprofit), foundation dedicated to increasing and disseminating mathematics, mathematical knowledge. Formerly based in Peterborough, New Hampshire, the corporate address i ...

January–June 2022.

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