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eduResearch Interests: Probability theory, stochastic processes and their applications:
stochastic analysis; large deviations; concentration of measure; interacting particle systems;
Gibbs measures and phase transitions; stochastic control and stochastic networks
Short Profile: Prof. Kavita Ramanan is the Roland George Dwight Richardson University Professor of Applied Mathematics and Associate Chair at Brown University. She has also served as Deputy Director of the Institute of Computational and Experimental Research in Mathematics (ICERM), and is currently the President-Elect of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics. Her research lies in the area of probability theory and its applications. She is an interdisciplinary researcher who has developed novel mathematical frameworks for the analysis of interacting particle systems and stochastic networks. She has also made fundamental contributions to the theory of large deviations, with applications to high-dimensional probability and asymptotic convex geometry.
Prof. Kavita Ramanan received a BTech from IIT Bombay and a PhD from Brown University. Her honors and awards include the Erlang Prize from the Applied Probability Society, a Medallion from the Institute of Mathematical Sciences, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Distinguished Alumnus Award from IIT Bombay, a Distinguished Research Achievement Award from Brown University, a Clay Senior Scholarship and the Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellowship. She has also been an invited sectional speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians, is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and an elected Fellow of several societies including the American Mathematical Society, American Association for the Advancement of Sciences, Institute for Mathematical Statistics, INFORMS and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. She is passionate about math outreach: she founded the Math CoOp, the SEAM seminar series, was a consultant and narrator for the film "Srinivasa Ramanujan: The Mathematician and his Legacy," and serves as a corresponding editor for the Mathematics Magazine Bhāvāna.