Shrirang Karandikar


Shrirang has dabbled in a number of different areas from VLSI Design Automation to High Performance Computing to Digitalization. The common thread in all of these has been algorithms and mathematics. He was employed (for far too many years) at Intel, IBM Research, Computational Research Labs and Shell, until finally realizing that it was time to do what he likes doing best – teaching! He has founded AlgoAsylum as a platform for students to do interesting work and generate new ideas. And to have fun!

In his past life, Shrirang has gotten a PhD, memorized the first thousand digits of pi and e, served as a pujari, represented his country in a world championship and gotten into trouble with the law for smuggling. This probably sounds more interesting than it actually is. And exactly one of the statements in this paragraph is false.

His website is at https://shrirang.karandikar.org. He enjoys reading (two good recommendations - The Three Marriages: Reimagining Work, Self and Relationship, by David Whyte and The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, by Thomas Kuhn), music (Air on the G string, Bach, Egmont Overture, Beethoven and Concerto for Oboe and Violin in D Minor, Bach) and poetry (All You Who Sleep Tonight, by Vikram Seth, One Art, by Elizabeth Bishop and anyone lived in a pretty how town, by e e cummings)