Vaithiyanathan Ravichandran

Dr. V. Ravichandran is a Professor of Mathematics at National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli, an institution recognized as an Institute of National Importance by the Government of India. He has studied at National College, Tiruchirappalli, for his B.Sc., M.Sc. and M.Phil. degrees and completed his Ph.D. degree from Anna University, Chennai (best known as the College of Engineering, Guindy (CEG)). He started his career as Lecturer in 1996 and spent the period between 2004-2007 at the Universiti Sains Malaysia where he was a Visiting Professor later in 2011-12. He joined as Reader at University of Delhi, a Central University of Government of India, in 2007 and was appointed there as Professor in 2014. He was a Head of the Department, Department of Mathematics, DU from 21.12.2015 - 12.04.2018. He has published more than 150 research papers; more than 50 of these papers are with Prof. Dato' Indera Rosihan M. Ali of the Universiti Sains Malaysia. He has supervised 15 Ph.D. and 9 M.Phil. scholars. He serves as an editor of the Bulletin of the Malaysian Mathematical Sciences Society since 2004. He was a member for co-option of the Programme Advisory Committee (PAC): Mathematical Sciences of DST-SERB. He was earlier the Chairman, Governing Body, Shyama Prasad Mukherji College for Women, University of Delhi from June 2017 to April 2018. Being HoD Mathematics, DU, he been part of University Court, Academic Council, Board of Studies in Mathematical Sciences at DU. He was also member of Business Advisory Committee of the Academic Council, DU and Technical Advisory Committee, University Computer Center. He was also a member of Joint Consultative Group for establishing a Centre for Social Applications of Mathematics, Ambedkar University, Delhi. He held an Adjunct Professorship at Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University between August 2016-August 2018. He has been a Visiting Professor at the Division of Mathematical Sciences, Pukyong National University, Busan, South Korea and at the School of Mathematical Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia. He was also a reviewer for Mathematical Review published American Mathematical Society and for Zentralblatt Math published by European Mathematical Society. He has reviewed around 100 papers for the later. He regularly acts as a referee for more than 50 reputed journals. He has got several research grants as PI or CoPI. Several of his papers won merit rewards from USM. For three consecutive years from 2008 - 2010, his papers won the Best Research Paper Award in the Category of Science, Technology and Medicine awarded by the Malaysian Council of Scholarly Publications (Majlis Penerbitan Ilmiah Malaysia MAPIM). As he is not keen on traveling, his participation in conferences was limited. However, he has organized few conferences/workshops/refresher courses. Notable among them are the two conferences he has organized in honor of the two retiring (now retired) faculty members at DU. He has been a popular speaker at various mathematics festivals/events at University of Delhi. Being a user of LaTeX from 1993, he is always happy to train anyone this wonderful typesetting software. His research interest is in geometric function theory, an active area of complex analysis.