Awards and Honors

2024 Elected Honorary Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences
2023 U Chicago Alumni Award for Professional Achievement
2023 Effie Award Silver Medal (Miller beer commercial)
2022-present Marvin Rosenblum Professor of Mathematics
2021 University of Virginia, Distinguished Researcher Award
2021-present Honorary Professor, Indian Inst. of Tech., Guwahati
2020-21 Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar
2019 University of Virginia, Research Award
2019-22 Thomas Jefferson Professor of Mathematics, UVa
2019 Rhodes Trust Inspirational Educator Award.
2019 Jubilee Chair Professor, Indian Academy of Sciences.
2018 Prose Award, Assoc. of Amer. Publishers.
2017 AMS-NZMS Distinguished Maclaurin Lecturer.
2017 DST International Film Festival, Best Film Prize.
2017 Eleanor Main Graduate Mentoring Award (Emory U).
2017 National Science Film Festival, Technical Excellence Award.
2016-2017 MAA George Polya Distinguished Lecturer.
2015 MAA Invited Address, Joint AMS-MAA Meeting.
2014 Alfred E. Levy Award for Scientific Research.
2012 Named Fellow of the American Mathematical Society.
2012 AMS Erdos Memorial Lecture.
2011 DMV National Address, U. Cologne.
2010-20 Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Mathematics, Emory U.
2009 AMS Invited Address, Joint AMS-MAA National Meeting.
2008 Harvard-MIT Current Developments in Mathematics.
2008-2011 Hilldale Professor of Mathematics, UW Madison.
2007, 09 Favorite Instructor Award, UW Madison Housing.
2005 NSF Director's Distinguished Teaching Scholar Award.
2004-2011 Manasse Prof. of Letters and Science, UW Madison.
2003 John S. Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship.
2003 NSF-CBMS Conference Lecturer.
2002 H. I. Romnes Fellowship.
1999 Presidential Early Career Award (awarded by Pres. Clinton).
1999 David and Lucile Packard Research Fellowship.
1999 Louis A. Martarano Professorship, Penn State University
1999 Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research Fellowship
1998 National Science Foundation CAREER Award
1997 National Security Agency Young Investigator