S. R. Kulkarni is the McArthur Professor of Astronomy and Professor
of Planetary Sciences at the California Institute of Technology.
Since 2006 he has been the Director of the Caltech Optical
Observatories.  He is also the Director of the Michelson Science
Center and serves as the Interdisciplinary Scientist for NASA's
Space Interferometry Mission PlanetQuest. Kulkarni currently served
as the Executive Officer for Astronomy from 1997-2000.

In 2007 he was awarded an AD White Professor-at-Large at Cornell University,
Ithaca, New York.

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Kulkarni obtained his undergradute degree from the Indian Institute
of Technology, Delhi and his PhD from UC Berkeley. He served
a brief period as a postdoc at UC Berekely and Caltech before joining
the faculty rank at Caltech in 1987.

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Prof.  Kulkarni's primary interests are the study of compact objects
(neutron stars and gamma-ray bursts) and the search for extra-solar
planets through interferometeric and adaptive techniques. He serves as
the Interdisciplinary Scientist for the Space Interferometry Mission
(SIM) and is co-PI of the Planet Search Key Project (also on SIM).

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His awards include the Alan T. Waterman Prize of the NSF, a fellowship
from the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, a Presidential Young
Investigator award from the NSF and the Helen B. Warner award of the
American Astronomical Society and the Janksy Prize of Associated
Universities, Inc. 

Kulkarni was elected as Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and
Sciences (1994), Fellow of the Royal Society of London (2001) and
Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences (2003).


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Detailed CV and Bibliograph can be found 
<a href="http://www.astro.caltech.edu/~srk/cv.html"> here </a>