Arul Shankar

Arul Shankar is an Indian mathematician at the University of Toronto specialising in number theory; more specifically, arithmetic statistics. He obtained his PhD from Princeton University in 2012 under Manjul Bhargava. Shankar is known for his work, with Manjul Bhargava, establishing unconditionally that the average rank of elliptic curves is bounded when ordered by naive height by ${\displaystyle 1.5}$ inand ${\displaystyle 1.17}$respectively.

In 2018 he was awarded a Sloan Research Fellowship, one of the most prestigious early career research fellowships available to mathematicians.