Navin Madhavprasad Singhi (born 1949) is an Indian

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and a

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at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research,

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, specializing in

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and

graph theory In mathematics, graph theory is the study of ''graphs'', which are mathematical structures used to model pairwise relations between objects. A graph in this context is made up of '' vertices'' (also called ''nodes'' or ''points'') which are conne ...

. He is the recipient of the prestigious Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology. Singhi is known for his research in

block design In combinatorial mathematics, a block design is an incidence structure consisting of a set together with a family of subsets known as ''blocks'', chosen such that frequency of the elements satisfies certain conditions making the collection of bl ...

s, projective planes, Intersection graphs of hypergraphs, and coding theory. He was a visiting professor at

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and other various universities in the United States and Europe.

Early life

Singhi was born in

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and raised in Goregaon, Mumbai and earned a M.A. in mathematics from the

Career

Singhi earned a Ph.D. (1974) from the

, his advisor was

S. S. Shrikhande Sharadchandra Shankar Shrikhande (19 October 1917 – 21 April 2020) was an Indian mathematician with notable achievements in combinatorial mathematics. He was notable for his breakthrough work along with R. C. Bose and E. T. Parker in their di ...

. Professor Singhi is a Fellow of the Indian National Science Academy.

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* 1949 births Living people 20th-century Indian mathematicians Indian combinatorialists University of Mumbai alumni Scientists from Mumbai Academic staff of Tata Institute of Fundamental Research Recipients of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award in Mathematical Science {{Asia-mathematician-stub