Professor
University of Utah
Anurag Singh received his Ph.D. under the supervision of Professor Melvin Hochster. His dissertation was titled F-regularity, F-rationality and F-purity; Anurag was then ignorant about Oxford commas, which have consumed much of his life since. Anurag came to Michigan from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, where he allegedly studied mathematics from 1987 to 1992.
Upon graduation, Anurag took up a one-year visiting position at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he taught calculus and linear algebra. A year is short, but he forged close friendships there, that he cherishes to this day. The following year, he took up a Wylie Instructorship at the University of Utah with Professor Paul Roberts as his mentor, a three year postdoctoral position that allowed him to teach courses in his own research area, in addition to business calculus and abstract algebra. Having grown up in the Himalayas in India, Anurag was quick to notice that Utah was a little less flat than Illinois.
In 2002, Anurag accepted a tenure track position at Georgia Institute of Technology, and immediately sneaked off to a special year at MSRI. While he certainly enjoyed his time at Georgia Tech, he was also delighted to return to the University of Utah when they offered him a tenured position in 2005.
Anurag loves working with his several collaborators, writing papers, mentoring, and traveling to conferences. He particularly enjoys speaking in graduate workshops at interesting places — Italy, Japan, Turkey, Mexico, Costa Rica, and India; he has been a frequent visitor to the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, for some of these graduate workshops.
Words of Wisdom: As a wiser person once said, never let the talks spoil a good conference. The people you meet are your mathematical family; some may become your closest friends. Folks that I met at my very first conference include someone who ended up as my first coauthor — and remains a dear friend.