Shrinivas Kulkarni

Shrinivas R. Kulkarni
Shrinivas R. Kulkarni
	Kulkarni in 2016
Born	4 October 1956; Kurundwad, Maharashtra, India
Alma mater	IIT Delhi,; UC Berkeley;
Awards	FRS (2001); US NAS (2003); Indian Academy of Sciences (2012); Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (2016); Helen B. Warner Prize (1991); NSF Waterman Prize (1992); Jansky prize (2002); Dan David Prize (2017);
	Scientific career
Fields	Astronomy ; Interstellar Medium; Pulsars; Millisecond Pulsars,; Brown Dwarf; Soft Gamma-ray Repeaters; Gamma-ray Bursts; Optical Transients;
Institutions	California Institute of Technology
Doctoral advisor	Carl E. Heiles; Donald C. Backer;

Shrinivas Ramchandra Kulkarni (born 4 October 1956) is a US-based astronomer born and raised in India. He is currently a professor of astronomy and planetary science at California Institute of Technology, and he served as director of Caltech Optical Observatory (COO) at California Institute of Technology, in which capacity he oversaw the Palomar and Keck among other telescopes. He is the recipient of a number of awards and honours.

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