Dr. K T Arasu

Professor,
Department of Mathematics & Statistics
Wright State University,
U.S.A.

Professor Arasu received his Master’s degree in 1977 at Panjab University, India and Ph.D. in 1983 from Ohio State University. He has been at WSU since 1983. He also spent 2 years in Germany as a Humboldt fellow. His research interests lie in the general area of applicable algebra. He has published over 90 research articles and is on the editorial board of the international journal Designs, Codes and Cryptography. He has also edited special issues for the journals: Discrete Mathematics, Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference and the Journal of Combinatorics, Information and System Sciences and three books containing research articles in combinatorial designs and coding theory. His research (for a total of over 1.5 million dollars) has been funded by NSA, NSF and AFOSR. His honors include Teaching Excellence Award at the CoSM at WSU, Presidential Research Excellence Award at WSU and the Trustee’s award for faculty excellence. His hobbies include composing spiritual music and writing poems in Tamil, Hindi and English.