Akshay Venkatesh (born November 21, 1981 in New Delhi, India) is an Australian mathematician of Indian descent who was a Clay Research Math Fellow research at the Clay Mathematics Institute from 2004 to 2006.
He is currently an associate professor at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University [11]. As of September 1, 2008, he has been appointed a professor at Stanford University.
Venkatesh commenced his PhD at Princeton University in 1998 under Peter Sarnak,