Vyjayanthi Chari (born 1958) is an Indian–American Distinguished Professor and the F. Burton Jones Endowed Chair for Pure Mathematics at the

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, known for her research in

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and quantum algebra.. In 2015 she was elected as a

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of the

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Education

Chari has a bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degree from the

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. Chari received her Ph.D. from the University of Mumbai under the supervision of Rajagopalan Parthasarathy.

Professional career

Following her Ph.D., she became a fellow at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai. In 1991, she joined the

(UCR) where she is now a Distinguished Professor of Mathematics. During her career, she has had several visiting positions. They were: invited senior participant at the Mittag-Leffler Institute, Sweden; an invited professor at the University of Cologne, Germany; an invited professor at Paris 7, France; an invited research fellow at Brown University, RI; and an invited senior participant at Hausdorff Research Institute for Mathematics, Bonn, Germany; and visiting professor at the University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy. She is also the editor of the ''Pacific Journal of Mathematics'' and the Editor in Chief of ''Algebras and Representation Theory''. With Andrew N. Pressley, she is the author of the book ''A Guide to Quantum Groups'' (Cambridge University Press, 1994).Review of ''A Guide to Quantum Groups'' by Tomasz Brzeziński (1995), .

Honors

* The Doctoral Dissertation Advisor/Mentor Award from the UCR Academic Senate. * American Mathematical Society 2016 Class of Fellows. * Simons Fellow 2019–2020. *Infosys Visiting Chair Professor, Indian Institute of Science, 2019–2023.

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