Tathagat Avatar Tulsi | Youngest IIT Professor Tathagat Avatar Tulsi | Tathagat Avatar Tulsi Biography

Tathagat Avatar Tulsi | Youngest IIT Professor Tathagat Avatar Tulsi | Tathagat Avatar Tulsi Biography

Dr. Tathagat Avatar Tulsi (born 9 September 1987 in Patna) is an Indian physicist, most well known as a child prodigy. He completed high school at the age of nine, earned a B.Sc. at the age of ten and a M.Sc. at the age of twelve. In August 2009, he got his Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of Science at the age of 21. In 2010, he became the youngest faculty member ever at IIT Bombay, at the age of 22.

Tulsi in Controversy : He received wide public attention in 2001, when he was shortlisted by the Indian Department of Science and Technology (DST) to participate in a Nobel laureates conference in Germany. Later, the DST officials claimed that it was a mistake to shortlist him, and that he was a “fake prodigy”. Following the controversy, Tulsi suffered from depression, which according to him, cost him a Ph.D. seat at IIT. He decided to “fight back” by earning a Ph.D. and gaining recognition as a scientist.

Tathagat Avatar Tulsi completing his phd : Tulsi was admitted by the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), where he wrote a 33-page long Ph.D. thesis on “Generalizations of the Quantum Search Algorithm”. He has the special distinction of being one of the world’s youngest scientists. At the age of 17, he co-authored a research manuscript (“A New Algorithm for Fixed-point Quantum Search”) with Lov Grover, the inventor of a quantum search algorithm that goes by his name.

Dr. Tulasi joined IIT Bombay in July 2010 as a faculty member in the Physics department. With this he became the youngest faculty member ever at IIT Bombay.

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