Pramod Ganapathi is a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Stony Brook University (SBU) learning/teaching/researching mathematics/algorithms/puzzles. He has published a book, published 15+ papers in reputed international conferences/journals, been granted a US patent, won two Outstanding Paper Awards, taught 10+ courses in 25+ offerings, and has supervised 90+ master's/bachelor students. Before joining SBU, he was an Assistant Professor at the Indian Institute of Technology, Indore. Before joining IIT, he was the founder and CEO of an animation-based online higher education startup called "Learning is Beautiful", in India. Before founding his startup, he received his Ph.D. in computer science at SBU, specializing in parallel algorithms. His Ph.D. work is entitled "Automatic Discovery of Efficient Divide-and-Conquer Algorithms for Dynamic Programming Problems" and was supervised by Prof. Rezaul A. Chowdhury. Before pursuing Ph.D., he was a Software Engineer at IBM India Software Labs.
