IIT’s Youngest Professor Is 22!

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MUMBAI, INDIA (GaeaTimes.com)- The professors of IITs are mostly in their 40s and 50s and this is common in almost all of the IITs in India. However, the students of the Indian Institute of Technology in Mumbai’s Powai will be delighted to get very shortly a very young professor who belong to their age group. The youngest professor of the IIT, Tathagat Avatar Tulsi is going to join this IIT soon. Unbelievable as it may sound to many, he is only 22 years old. From next week he is going to join the physics department of the institute.

He was a whizkid in the proper sense of the term and this was established when he completed his school at the shockingly young age of 9. He did his masters within 12. When he was just 21, Tathagat Avatar Tulsi did a doctorate in Quantum Computing. He did this from the Indian Institute of Science. He was flooded with offers from abroad and other coveted institutes of the country which he had to turn down. Way back in 2003, the noted Time magazine named the would-be IIT professor among the world’s most gifted youngsters.

The IIT professor who is hogging the limelight now never studied in a conventional school. He has no experience of teaching but thinks that he will try to understand his students as best as he can. He is not giving up study at all and wants to pursue his research. He has no plan to settle abroad as of now and wants to teach at the IIT for quite some time, as he said.