Arul Shankar

Arul Shankar is an Indian mathematician at the University of Toronto specializing in number theory, particularly arithmetic statistics.

Education
He received his B.Sc. (honours) in mathematics and computer science from Chennai Mathematical Institute in 2007. He obtained his PhD from Princeton University in 2012 under Manjul Bhargava. Shankar is known for his work, with Bhargava, establishing unconditionally that the average rank of elliptic curves is bounded when ordered by naive height by $$1.5$$ and $$ 1.17 $$ respectively, thus proving the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture for a positive proportion of elliptic curves.

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