Education:

Ph.D	1998	Indian Institute of Technology,	Mumbai, India.
M. Sc	1991	Indian Institute of Technology,	Mumbai, India.
B.Sc	1989	St. Xaviers College ,	Mumbai, India.

Professional Experience:

Fellow	1999-	Chennai Mathematical Institute,	Chennai, India.
Visiting Scholar	1997-1998	Northeastern University,	Boston, U.S.A.
Visiting Fellow	1996-1998	Tata Institute of Fundamental Research,	Mumbai, India

Teaching Experience: Macaulay-I, Refresher course on Groebner Basis, 1996University of Bombay. Differential Calculus

Differential Calculus, Northeastern University, U.S.A. 1997-1998.

Algebra-II,  Chennai Mathematical Institute, January 1999.

Macaulay-II, Winter School on Algorithms in Invariant Theory and

             Algebraic Geometry, Pune University, December 1999.

Algebra-II,  Chennai Mathematical Institute, January 2000.

Research Interests:

Primary:          Commutative Algebra

Secondary:        Computational algebra, Algebraic Geometry

Other Interests:  Drawing, Painting, Swimming.

Computer Knowledge:

C programming, Unix

Macaulay 2, A package for Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry.

Publications:

1.  Cohen-Macaulay fiber Cones Commutative Algebra, Algebraic Geometry

    and Computational Methods (Hanoi 1996) Spinger-Verlag, (1999),

    233-246 (with J. K. Verma and K. N. Raghavan).

2.  Multigraded  Rees algebras of $m$-primary ideals in rings of dimension

    greater than one  Journal of Pure and Applied algebra (to appear).

3.  Quadratic transform of complete ideals in regular local rings

    Comm. Algebra 28 (2000),     693-698.

4.  On the number of generators of Cohen-Macaulay ideals Proc. Amer. Math.

    Soc. (to appear)

    (with J. Verma).

5.  Multigraded extended Rees algebras of $m$-primary ideals with minimal

    multiplicity  Nagoya Journal (to appear).

6.  High order vanishing ideals at $n+3$ points of ${\mathbf P}^n$   Proc.

    Buchsbaum Conference, Catania (to appear) (with A. Iarrobino) .

7. A formula for the multiplicity if the multigraded extended Rees algebra,

   Comm. Algebra (to appear).

Talks and Conferences Attended:

1.  Cohen-Macaulay Rees algebras and fiber cones with minimal multiplicity,

    T.I.F.R., Bombay (October 1996).

2.  Cohen-Macaulay Fibers, I.I.T. , Bombay, March 1997.

3.  Rees algebras with minimal multiplicity, Midwest Algebraic Conference,

    University of Norte Dame , Norte Dame, USA, November 1997.

4.  Complete ideals in regular local rings, Northeastern University ,

    U.S.A. , January 1998.

5.  Cohen-Macaulay fiber cones, University of Kansas , Kansas, USA, May 1998.

6.  Cohen-Macaulay fiber cones, Purdue University , USA, May 1998.

7.  On the number of generators of Cohen-Macaulay ideals, Chennai Mathematical

    Institute, Chennai,  July 1998.

8.  Complete ideals in regular local rings, Institute of Mathematical  Sciences,

    Madras, July 1998.

9.  Hoskin-Deligne formula for complete ideals in regular local rings,

    Second National Conference on Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry,

    Metha Research Institute , March 1999.

10. Complete ideals in regular local rings, Mehta Research Institute ,

    Allahabad,     September 1999.

11. Complete monomial ideals, Trends in Commutative Algebra,

    I.I.T.-Bombay, January 2000.