CV

PhD

University of Georgia

Mathematics

Integrated M.Sc.

National Institute of Science Education and Research (NISER)

Mathematics

• Master's Thesis: Combinatorics and Representation Theory of Symmetric Groups

Instructor of Record

University of Georgia

Responsible for most aspects of the following courses including preparing course notes, delivering lectures, writing exams and quizzes, holding office hours and managing grades.

• Calculus I (Math 2250): Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2022
• PreCalculus (Math 1113): Fall 2026 (x2), Spring 2026 (x2), Fall 2025 (x2), Spring 2024 (x2), Spring 2022 (x2), Fall 2021
• Online Precalculus (Math 1113E): Summer 2024

David Galewski Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award

Mathematics Department, University of Georgia

Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award

Center for Teaching and Learning, University of Georgia

Certificate of Merit

School of Mathematical Sciences, NISER

For outstanding performance in the Spring 2018 semester.

INSPIRE Scholarship Award (2015-2020)

Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India

A somewhat sure note on an un-Schur problem

S. Hegde, H. Kumar, Pratibha

arXiv preprint arXiv:2609.18474

Refined upper bounds on Schur-like numbers

S. Hegde, A. Lott, G. Petridis, N. R. Ponagandla

arXiv preprint arXiv:2608.03661

Extensions of the Furstenberg-Sárközy theorem via the arithmetic level-d inequality

C. F. E. Adajar, R. Agrawal, M. R. Choudhuri, C. Y. Chuah, S. Fan, S. Hegde, A. Lott, K. Nandakumar, and N. R. Ponagandla

arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.16216

An Inverse Result for Ruzsa's Inequality on Triple Sumsets

S. Hegde

arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.20073

Graduate Workshop in Logic and Combinatorics

University of Illinois at Chicago

International Conference on Graph Theory and its Applications (ICGTA 2026)

Presidency University, Bangalore, India

Simons School and Workshop on Harmonic Analysis and applications to Ramsey theory

Rényi Institute, Budapest, Hungary

Simons School and Workshop on Harmonic Analysis and Analytic Number Theory

Rényi Institute, Budapest, Hungary

Graduate Student Combinatorics Conference

University of Illinois at Chicago

PCMI 2025 Graduate Summer School on Extremal Combinatorics and Probabilistic Methods

PCMI, Park City, Utah

Graduate Research Workshop in Combinatorics

Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa

CanaDAM Conference 2025

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Integers Conference 2025

University of Georgia, Athens, GA

Algebraic and Analytic Methods in Combinatorics

SLMath, Berkeley, California

Introductory Workshop - Graph Theory: Extremal, Probabilistic and Structural

SLMath, Berkeley, California

Early-Career Conference in Combinatorics

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, IL

33rd Cumberland Conference on Combinatorics, Graph Theory & Computing

Mississippi State University, MS

Formalization of Mathematics

SLMath, Berkeley, California

Integers Conference 2023

University of Georgia, Athens, GA

ATM-Schools AIS on Representation Theory of Finite Groups

Chennai Mathematical Institute, Chennai, India

Madhava Mathematics Camp

Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore, India

National Science Camp (VIJYOSHI)

Kolkata, India

Generalized Schur Numbers

UGA Analysis Seminar

An Inverse Result for Ruzsa's Inequality on Triple Sumsets

Graduate Student Combinatorics Conference, University of Illinois at Chicago

An Inverse Result for Ruzsa's Inequality on Triple Sumsets

Discrete Math Seminar, Iowa State University (virtual)

An Inverse Result for Ruzsa's Inequality on Triple Sumsets

CanaDAM Conference, Ottawa, Canada

An Inverse Result for Ruzsa's Inequality on Triple Sumsets

Integers Conference, UGA

Ramsey number R(4,k)

Oral Qualifying Exam Presentation, UGA

AKS Algorithm for Primality Testing

Combinatorial Number Theory Reading Seminar, UGA

A Polygon Problem

Graduate Student Seminar, UGA

The RSK Correspondence

Graduate Student Seminar, UGA

Almost Periods of Convolutions and Application to Roth's Theorem

Additive Combinatorics Reading Seminar, UGA

Cores and Quotients of Integer Partitions

Graduate Student Seminar, UGA

Rédei's Theorem and Szőnyi Method

Polynomial Methods Reading Seminar, UGA

Roth's Theorem via Finite Fourier Analysis

Math Seminar, NISER

Pebbling the Chessboard

NISER Open Day

The Story of Dimension

MathematiX Club, NISER

Clock Arithmetic

NISER Open Day (for high school students)

Gödel's Incompleteness Theorems

MathematiX Club, NISER

Directed Reading Program, UGA Math Department

Mentored UGA undergraduate students on various projects

• Yan Heng: Formalization of Mathematics in Lean, Spring 2026
• Benjamin Wang-Tie: Applications of Entropy in Combinatorics, Spring 2025
• Aakash Khanal: Mathematics of Card Shuffling, Summer 2021

Volunteer for Sonia Kovalevsky Day

University of Georgia

Co-organizer of the Graduate Student Seminar

Mathematics Department, University of Georgia

Co-facilitator of the Precalculus community working group

Mathematics Department, University of Georgia

Volunteer for High School Math Tournament

University of Georgia

Volunteered in Oct 2023 and Oct 2024.

Peer Mentor for first year graduate students

Mathematics Department, University of Georgia

Secretary of Student Chapter of AMS

Mathematics Department, University of Georgia