Vyjayanthi Chari

Vyjayanthi Chari (born 1958)^[1] is an Indian–American Distinguished Professor and the F. Burton Jones Endowed Chair for Pure Mathematics at the University of California, Riverside, known for her research in representation theory and quantum algebra.^[2] In 2015 she was elected as a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.^[3]

Education

Chari has a bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degree from the University of Mumbai.^[2] Chari received her Ph.D. from the University of Mumbai under the supervision of Rajagopalan Parthasarathy.^[4]

Professional career

Following her Ph.D., she became a fellow at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai. In 1991, she joined the University of California, Riverside (UCR) where she is now a Distinguished Professor of Mathematics. During her career, she has had several visiting positions. They were: invited senior participant at the Mittag-Leffler Institute, Sweden; an invited professor at the University of Cologne, Germany; an invited professor at Paris 7, France; an invited research fellow at Brown University, RI; and an invited senior participant at Hausdorff Research Institute for Mathematics, Bonn, Germany;  and visiting professor at the University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy.^[5]

She is also the editor of the Pacific Journal of Mathematics and the Editor in Chief of Algebras and Representation Theory.^[6]

With Andrew N. Pressley, she is the author of the book A Guide to Quantum Groups (Cambridge University Press, 1994).^[7]

Honors

• The Doctoral Dissertation Advisor/Mentor Award from the UCR Academic Senate.^[5]
• American Mathematical Society 2016 Class of Fellows.
• Simons Fellow 2019–2020.
• Infosys Visiting Chair Professor, Indian Institute of Science, 2019–2023.