Riddhipratim Basu

Riddhipratim Basu is an Associate Professor at the International Centre for Theoretical Sciences (ICTS-TIFR) in Bengaluru, India, since September 2017. Previously, he was a Szegö Assistant Professor of Mathematics at Stanford University (2015–2017) and a Ph.D. graduate in Statistics from UC Berkeley (2015), supervised by Allan Sly.

• Research focuses on Probability Theory, with emphasis on First/Last Passage Percolation, Interacting Particle Systems, Large Deviations, and Random Matrix Theory.
• Key collaborators include Allan Sly, Shirshendu Ganguly, Mahan Mj, and Manan Bhatia.
• Publications span journals like Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics, Annals of Probability, and Comm. Math. Phys.

His work explores geodesic structures in percolation models, scaling exponents in KPZ universality, and geometric properties of stochastic processes. Recent studies include Liouville Quantum Gravity and Airy process fluctuations.