Tulsi is India’s youngest prof
Tathagat Avatar Tulsi, yesterday’s child prodigy, is all grown up! At 22, he will join the faculty of the Indian Institute of Technology at Powai in Mumbai next week.
Taking up this assignment ends the confusion in the young professor’s mind on whether to set up a computer lab at home in Patna or to migrate to Waterloo University in C
anada to pursue his dream of designing superfast computers. At the Mumbai IIT, he will receive a grant of Rs 10 lakhs to support his research in quantum computing.
“My goal is to do outstanding research, so I hope to get some positive results in developing the software for quantum computers in the next two to three years and seek funds for a bigger laboratory,” he told this newspaper.
Last year, Avatar Tulsi joined a select global group of mathematicians and physicists who had secured their Ph.D. at the very young age of 21. This list includes John Forbes Nash Jr, the MIT mathematician who got his Ph.D. in mathematics when he was 21, and whose life story was later turned into the Hollywood film A Beautiful Mind, which won four Oscars in 2002, including for best picture and best director.
Says Tulsi: “I am lucky and very happy to have landed a faculty position at IIT Mumbai,” explaining how he was turned away by IIT Delhi and Patna, as well as his alma mater, Indian Institute of Science, where he secured his doctorate. This was notwithstanding his world records: passing high school at 9, B.Sc. at 11 and M.Sc. at 12.
His ultimate dream? “Who knows, maybe the Nobel Prize,” says India’s youngest professor.
Comments
You have done all Indians
prof sheetal singh
16 Jul 2010 - 22:42
You have done all Indians proud and you are our future Bill Gates. Keep it up.
Dear Tulsi, Nobel Prize is
kaleemullah afridi
14 Jul 2010 - 16:10
Dear Tulsi, Nobel Prize is waiting for you.
Its a proud moment for India.
Saumajit Bandopadhyay
13 Jul 2010 - 18:12
Its a proud moment for India. Congratulations Tathagatha. Wish you all the best for your future.
Hearty congratulation to Dr
skmgupta
14 Jul 2010 - 15:47
Hearty congratulation to Dr Tulsi for joining IIT-B as Asstt.Prof .
Hearty Congratulation to Dr
M S AKHTAR
13 Jul 2010 - 13:36
Hearty Congratulation to Dr Tulsi for joining IIT-B as Asstt.Prof .May God bless U with Nobel Prize in future.
He rejected the offer from
Manish
13 Jul 2010 - 13:34
He rejected the offer from Canada, to work for his country in Mumbai, So "MNS" people should know Mumbai is not the last options for North Indians, they are there to serve the country," A king is praised in his kingdom only, but a talanted person is praised every where"
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