I am M. Rajesh Kannan, Associate Professor in the Department of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad. My areas of interest include Combinatorics, Spectral graph theory and Matrix theory. You can find my recent CV here.

Seminars, Workshops

• Instructional School for Teachers(IST) on "Applications of Linear Algebra in Machine Learning and Data Science" - 18 May 2026 to 30 May 2026.
• GIAN Course - Spectral Graph Theory - 27 October 2025 to 31 October 2025. The course details can be found here. The recording are available here.
• Online Short-Term Program on "Graphs, Matrices and Applications" - September 29 - October 04, 2025. (Lecture notes are updated)
• Annual Foundation School - I - 2 December 2024 to 28 December 2024. The course materials can be found here.
• Annual Foundation School - I - 5 December 2022 to 31 December 2022.
• Faculty Student Development Program on Spectral Graph Theory - 24 November 2022 to 25 November 2022 (Supported by PALS).
• Advanced Instructional School on "Algebraic Combinatorics and Spectral Graph Theory," - 30 May 2022 to 18 Jun 2022 .
• Weekly e-Seminar on "Graphs, matrices and their applications."
• Weekly seminar on "Graphs, matrices and their applications."
• AICTE short term course on "Advanced Matrix Algebra and Applications."(Lecture notes are updated)
• AICTE short term course on "Linear Algebra and Differential Equations ." (Lecture notes are updated)

1. Project Title : Graph Theoretic And Spectral Characterizations Of Some Graphs Defined On Group (2025-)
   Scheme: National Postdoctoral Fellowship (Supervising Dr Pallabi Manna)
   Funding agency : ANRF, India.
2. Project Title : Spectral theory of signed graphs (2024-)
   Scheme: Core Research Grant (CRG)
   Funding agency : ANRF, India.
3. Scheme : International Travel Grant (2023)
   Funding agency : Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), India .
   
4. Excellent Young Teacher Award 2020, IIT Kharagpur.(Cash Prize: 2,00,000 INR )
5. Project Title : Spectrum and structure of graphs (2023-2025)
   Scheme: Seed Grant
   Funding agency : SRC, IIT Hyderabad.
   
6. Project Title : Semipositive, Minimal Semipositive Matrices and their Extensions (2019-2022)
   Scheme: Mathematical Research Impact-Centric Support (MATRICS)
   Funding agency : Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), India.
   
7. Project Title : Spectral Techniques to Characterize Graphs (2017-2018)
   Scheme: National Postdoctoral Fellowship (Supervised Dr Ranjit Mehatari)
   Funding agency : ANRF, India.
8. Project Title : Some problems in spectral graph theory and matrix theory (2018-2021)
   Scheme: Early Career Research (ECR) Award
   Funding agency : Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), India.
9. Project Title : Linear Complementarity Problems Over Infinite Dimensional Hilbert Spaces (2017-2020)
   Funding agency : SRIC, IIT Kharagpur