Rahul Pandharipande is a prominent mathematician known for his contributions to algebraic geometry and related fields. He was born on November 5, 1969, in India. Pandharipande completed his undergraduate studies at the California Institute of Technology and received his Ph.D. in mathematics from Harvard University in 1994. Throughout his career, Pandharipande has made significant contributions to the study of moduli spaces, enumerative geometry, and Gromov-Witten theory. His work has involved the intersection of algebraic geometry, theoretical physics, and number theory. He has collaborated with other renowned mathematicians and has published numerous influential papers in prestigious mathematical journals.