Sucharit Sarkar

Sucharit Sarkar (born in 1983 in Calcutta) is an associate professor at UCLA.
In the International Mathematical Olympiads in 2001 and 2002, he secured the gold medal and the silver medal respectively. He got the sixth rank in IIT-JEE 2002. He received his PhD from Princeton University in 2009 under the guidance of Zoltán Szabó. Then he did a postdoctoral fellowship at Mathematics Sciences Research Institute (2010). He did his schooling from South Point High School.

Research contribution

His research area is low-dimensional topology. He is working on Heegaard Floer homology for three-manifolds and knots inside three-manifolds.