1991/BT/CS Professor, University of Utah, USA
Prof. Srikanth B. Iyengar is a distinguished mathematician and an outstanding alumnus of the Indian Institute of Technology Madras, whose career stands as a testament to intellectual rigour, scholarly depth, and enduring commitment to the mathematical sciences. Prof. Srikanth received his B.Tech. in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras in 1991, and subsequently earned his M.S. (1994) and Ph.D. (1998) in Mathematics from Purdue University.
Currently a Professor at the University of Utah, Prof. Srikanth has built an extraordinary body of work in commutative algebra, homological algebra, and modular representation theory. With over 117 refereed publications to his name, his research has fundamentally shaped the modern understanding of stratification of triangulated categories, support theory, and local cohomology. His landmark paper, co-authored with Benson and Krause on the stratification of modular representations of finite groups, published in the Annals of Mathematics, stands as a celebrated contribution to algebra in recent decades.
Prof. Srikanth’s achievements have been recognised with numerous prestigious honours. He was awarded the Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Prize by the Humboldt Foundation in 2007, elected a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society in 2013, and named a Simons Fellow in Mathematics in 2012–2013. He held the Willa Cather Professorship at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and received the Eisenbud Research Professorship at SLMath, Berkeley in 2024. In 2026, he will deliver an invited lecture at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Philadelphia, one of the highest distinctions in the mathematical world.
Beyond his research, Prof. Srikanth has been a prolific mentor, guiding more than twenty doctoral students across the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and the University of Utah, many of whom have gone on to distinguished academic careers of their own. He has co-authored two significant books, including the widely used graduate text Twenty-Four Hours of Local Cohomology published by the American Mathematical Society. He has also served in leadership roles on the editorial boards of leading journals including the Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra and International Mathematics Research Notices and he has been continuously supported by the National Science Foundation as Principal Investigator over multiple grant cycles.
In recognition of his extraordinary contributions to mathematics, his exemplary mentorship, and his role as a global ambassador for the discipline, the Indian Institute of Technology Madras and its alumni are proud to confer Prof. Srikanth B. Iyengar with the Distinguished Alumni Award for the year 2026.
