Sanath Devalapurkar

About Sanath Devalapurkar

Sanath Devalapurkar was born in Adoni, India, and moved around a lot growing up: his family lived in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, different parts of India, London, and Los Angeles, where he attended high school for just two years before beginning MIT at the age of sixteen. As soon as Sanath arrived at MIT, he began sitting in on graduate level courses in math and asking big questions. With a passion for mathematics and physics that has been nourished in the academically vibrant city of Cambridge, Massachusetts, Sanath has found a true home.

Sanath is particularly interested in algebraic topology and algebraic geometry, which are subfields of math. His interest owes a lot to his parents’ undying support while growing up, University of Melbourne Professor Marcy Robertson while he was in high school, Haynes Miller and Jeremy Hahn at MIT, and his PhD advisors Mike Hopkins and Dennis Gaitsgory at Harvard. After finishing his PhD in 2025, Sanath will start a postdoc at the University of Chicago and the Institute for Advanced Study, and will begin a faculty position at JHU in 2027.

Sanath is excited to keep up the stimulating conversations he has had with the math community well beyond his PhD.