Academic Employment

  • 2022— Director, Interdisciplinary Programming, College of Graduate & Postdoctoral Studies, University of Saskatchewan, Canada
  • 2022— Full Professor, Department of Mathematics & Statistics, University of Saskatchewan, Canada
  • 2020—2022 Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics & Statistics, University of Saskatchewan, Canada
  • 2016—2020 Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics & Statistics, University of Saskatchewan, Canada
  • 2011—2016 Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Mathematics, University of Toronto (St. George and Scarborough), Canada

Education

  • 2007—2011 PhD / DPhil in Mathematics, University of Oxford, UK
  • 2006—2007 MSc in Mathematics, McGill University, Canada
  • 2002—2006 BSc (Honours, Distinction) in Mathematics, Queen's University, Canada

Selected Fellowships, Scholarships, Prizes, and Grants

  • 2023 Finalist / First Runner Up, Cozzarelli Prize (US National Academy of Sciences)
  • 2023 USSU Teaching Excellence Award (University of Saskatchewan)
  • 2021 New Researcher Award (University of Saskatchewan)
  • 2020—2025 CFI John R. Evans Leaders Fund
  • 2020—2023 PIMS Collaborative Research Group Award (for quanTA)
  • 2019 New Researcher Award - Science (College of Arts & Science, University of Saskatchewan)
  • 2019—2022 Tri-Agency New Frontiers in Research Fund (NFRF) Exploration Grant
  • 2019 PIMS-CNRS Europe Fellowship (taken up at Institut Henri Poincaré in 2023)
  • 2018 Ethel Raybould Fellowship (University of Queensland)
  • 2018 New Teacher Award - Science (College of Arts & Science, University of Saskatchewan)
  • 2017—2023 NSERC Discovery Grant
  • 2017 USSU Teaching Excellence Award (University of Saskatchewan)
  • 2012—2016 Fields Institute General Scientific Activity Grants
  • 2012 F.V. Atkinson Teaching Award (University of Toronto)
  • 2009—2011 NSERC Postgraduate Scholarship D (held at University of Oxford)
  • 2007—2010 Commonwealth Scholarship (held at University of Oxford)
  • 2006—2007 NSERC Postgraduate Scholarship M (held at McGill University
  • 2005 Nellie & Ralph Jeffery Prize in Mathematics (Queen's University)
  • 2002—2006 Canada Millennium Excellence Laureate (held at Queen's University)
  • 2002—2006 Queen's University Chancellor's Scholarship

Invited Talks

 

For a complete CV, feel free to email me at rayan (at) math.usask.ca.