S. A. Choudum

Who is S. A. Choudum?

Sheshayya A. Choudum is a professor and a former chair of the department of mathematics, IIT Madras specializing in graph theory. He has often worked in chromatic number, degree sequence, graph enumeration and bivariegated graphs.

Choudum hails from Bellari. He completed a M.A. in mathematics from the Karnataka University, Dharwar and a Ph.D. from IIT Madras. His advisor was K. R. Parthasarathy. From there, he came to University of Mumbai to work with S. S. Shrikhande, S. B. Rao and Vasanti N. Bhat-Nayak. Prior to joining the computer science department at IIT Madras, he was with the department of mathematics, Madurai Kamaraj University. While at Madurai, he visited University of Reading to work with Crispin Nash-Williams. Choudum has guided Ph.D. students in graph theory.