Rajula SRIVASTAVA

Bio

Professor Rajula Srivastava is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. In 2025, she was awarded the Maryam Mirzakhani New Frontiers Prize for her contributions to harmonic analysis and analytic number theory, including work on the problem of counting rational points near smooth manifolds.

Prior to her current position, she served as a Hirzebruch Research Instructor from 2022 to 2025, holding joint appointments at the University of Bonn and the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics. Building on this experience, she was also a visiting researcher at the University of Edinburgh from 2024 to 2025, supported by an Argelander Mobility Grant.

Her academic career has been distinguished by several major awards and recognitions. She received the Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) Dissertation Prize in 2023, which honors outstanding doctoral theses in the mathematical sciences in the United States. She was also awarded the Excellence in Graduate Research Award in 2021 by the University of Wisconsin–Madison, as well as the Gold Medal for Best Academic Performance in 2017 from the National Institute of Science Education and Research in India.

She earned her Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of Wisconsin–Madison between 2017 and 2022, under the supervision of Professor Andreas Seeger. Prior to that, she completed an Integrated Master of Science in Mathematics at the National Institute of Science Education and Research in Bhubaneswar, India, between 2012 and 2017.