2026 Kannan Soundararajan: Mathematics Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Mathematics	40	2092	1843	883	730	135	5315

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Research.com Recognitions

2018 - Fellow of the American Mathematical Society For contributions to analytic number theory.

Overview

Kannan Soundararajan is affiliated with Stanford University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Mathematics and Computer Science, with a notable focus on subfields such as Algebra and Number Theory, Discrete Mathematics and Combinatorics, Mathematical Physics, Geometry and Topology, and Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition.

Their main topics of research cover a range of areas including:

Analytic Number Theory Research
Advanced Mathematical Identities
Limits and Structures in Graph Theory
Coding theory and cryptography
Algebraic Geometry and Number Theory
Mathematical Dynamics and Fractals
Finite Group Theory Research

Recent publications by Kannan Soundararajan include the following:

"Central limit theorems for random multiplicative functions," 2023, Journal d Analyse Mathématique
"Productivity and quality improvement through DMAIC in SME," 2020, International Journal of Productivity and Quality Management

Other notable papers closely associated with coauthors in their scholarly network are:

"Lower bounds for moments of zeta and L-functions revisited," 2022, Mathematika
"Lower bounds for moments of zeta and $L$-functions revisited," 2020, arXiv (Cornell University)
"Almost all entries in the character table of the symmetric group are multiples of any given prime," 2022, Journal für die reine und angewandte Mathematik (Crelles Journal)

Frequent collaborators in Soundararajan's research include Sarah Peluse, Winston Heap, Max Wenqiang Xu, K. Janardhan Reddy, and Emmanuel Kowalski.

The venues in which they have regularly published comprise:

arXiv (Cornell University)
Mathematika
Journal d Analyse Mathématique
International Journal of Productivity and Quality Management
Advances in Mathematics

Soundararajan has contributed to book publications as well, including a work published by the American Mathematical Society titled Finite Fields, with Applications to Combinatorics (2022).

Awards granted to Soundararajan include the designation of Fellow of the American Mathematical Society in 2018, recognizing contributions to analytic number theory.

Best Publications

Demography of Cirsium vulgare in a grazing experiment.

Kannan Soundararajan

429
Citations
Moments of the Riemann zeta function

Kannan Soundararajan

265
Citations
The distribution of values of L(1, χ d )

Andrew Granville;K. Soundararajan

242
Citations
Large character sums: Pretentious characters and the Pólya-Vinogradov theorem

Andrew Granville;Kannan Soundararajan;Kannan Soundararajan

176
Citations
Mass equidistribution for Hecke eigenforms

Roman Holowinsky;Kannan Soundararajan

174
Citations
Extreme values of zeta and L-functions

K. Soundararajan

162
Citations
Quantum unique ergodicity for SL2 (Z) H

Kannan Soundararajan

152
Citations
Mean-values of the Riemann zeta-function

K. Soundararajan

147
Citations
Omega results for the divisor and circle problems

Kannan Soundararajan

111
Citations
Divisibility of Class Numbers of Imaginary Quadratic Fields

K. Soundararajan

107
Citations
Primes in short intervals

Hugh L. Montgomery;K. Soundararajan

107
Citations
Large character sums

Andrew Granville;K. Soundararajan;K. Soundararajan

105
Citations
Small gaps between prime numbers: The work of Goldston-Pintz-Yildirim

K. Soundararajan;K. Soundararajan

105
Citations
Moments and distribution of central $$L$$ L -values of quadratic twists of elliptic curves

Maksym Radziwiłł;K. Soundararajan

103
Citations
Lower bounds for moments of L-functions

Z. Rudnick;K. Soundararajan

101
Citations
On modular signs

E. Kowalski;Y.-K. Lau;Kannan Soundararajan;J. Wu

101
Citations
Maximum of the Riemann zeta function on a short interval of the critical line

Louis Pierre Arguin;David Belius;Paul Bourgade;Maksym Radziwiłł

98
Citations
CONDITIONAL BOUNDS FOR THE LEAST QUADRATIC NON-RESIDUE AND RELATED PROBLEMS

Youness Lamzouri;Xiannan Li;Kannan Soundararajan

88
Citations
Ramanujan's ternary quadratic form

Ken Ono;K. Soundararajan

86
Citations
Decay of Mean Values of Multiplicative Functions

Andrew Granville;K. Soundararajan

80
Citations
Nonvanishing of quadratic Dirichlet L-functions at s=1/2

K. Soundararajan

60
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Andrew Granville University of Montreal

Henryk Iwaniec Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Persi Diaconis Stanford University

Jeffrey C. Lagarias University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

Ken Ono University of Virginia

Sourav Chatterjee Stanford University

Hugh L. Montgomery University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

Bjorn Poonen MIT

Zeév Rudnick Tel Aviv University

Ben Green University of Oxford

External Links

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