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At 22, Tulsi becomes assistant professor at IIT
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At 22, Tulsi becomes assistant professor at IIT
The 22-year-old Patna-born prodigy Tathagat Avtar Tulsi is all set to become the country's youngest faculty at the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Powai in Mumbai.
Official sources said that Dr. Tulsi, will be joining as an assistant professor in the Department of Physics next week.
Mr. Tulsi, who completed high school at the age of 9 years, had secured a B.Sc. degree at 10 and his M.Sc. degree in Physics at the age of 12.
‘Wunderkind'
The ‘wunderkind' then obtained his Ph.D in Quantum Computing from the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore at the age of 21.
In 2003, he was named as one of the world's “seven most gifted youngsters” by Time magazine.
Dr. Tulsi chose IIT Powai's over offers from such hallowed institutions as Waterloo University in Canada, and the Indian Institute of Science Education & Research (IISER), Bhopal.
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