Kedar Hardikar

Dr. Kedar Hardikar was born in Mumbai, was raised in Mumbai and moved to the USA in pursuit of higher education. He is a practicing engineering professional currently working at Google and an adjunct faculty member at San Jose State University. Dr. Hardikar received his Ph.D. from the Division of Engineering, Brown University and has worked in industry and academia over two decades. He practices engineering in industry while keeping his academic involvement alive through teaching undergraduate as well as graduate courses in Engineering and Engineering Mathematics. He enjoys industry leadership as much as being an academic advisor to students. After his undergraduate engineering, he was a research scholar at the School of Mathematics, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research studying pure mathematics, before returning to Engineering as his profession of choice.

His interests include mathematics, poetry, clay modeling, cricket and teaching. He has written poems in Marathi where he introduced the experiment in poetry called mathematical poems (गणिती काव्य) for the first time. He has brought this experiment with much broader scope and appeal now in English in "Abstract Intersections".

Recent Interview:

https://soundcloud.com/poetsandmuses/imogen-arate-with-kedar-hardikar