Background & History: Anurag Shankar
I was born in Varanasi (more
popularly known as Benares or Kashi),
India, roughly four
decades ago. I grew up in
Uttar Pradesh
(U.P.), one of the northern Indian states (my father was a member of
the U.P. state civil services). Though we lived in towns such as Allahabad,
Sultanpur, and RaiBareilly, I consider myself pretty much from Lucknow, the
state capitol of U.P., since that is where I spent most of my formative years.
Educationwise, I attended Lucknow University (1976-79, B.Sc.
Physics/Math/Astronomy 1978), the
University of Roorkee (1979-81, M.Sc., Physics 1981),
West Virginia University
(1981-84, M.S., Physics, 1983), and the
University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign (1984-90, Ph.D., Astronomy 1990). Employmentwise, I
was a postdoc in astronomy at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
(Summer 1990) and at the University of Arizona in Tucson (1990-93), a visiting
postdoc in astronomy, a UNIX systems administrator in the chemistry, astronomy,
and geology departments at Indiana University, Bloomington (1/94-8/95), and a
senior UNIX systems programmer at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island
(9/95-3/97). I am currently the manager of the
Distributed Storage
Services Group and an adjunct assistant professor in the
Dept. of
Astronomy at Indiana University-Bloomington.
For more on how I met Dimitri Mihalas, the author of the Manic Depression
Primer, go here.
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