{"id":9689,"date":"2010-07-14T14:51:33","date_gmt":"2010-07-14T14:51:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/drishtikone\/2010\/07\/22-patna-boy-becomes-youngest-iit-professor\/"},"modified":"2010-07-14T14:51:33","modified_gmt":"2010-07-14T14:51:33","slug":"22-patna-boy-becomes-youngest-iit-professor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/drishtikone\/2010\/07\/22-patna-boy-becomes-youngest-iit-professor\/","title":{"rendered":"At 22, Patna boy becomes youngest IIT Professor"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>Dr. Tathagat Avatar Tulsi, a Patna-born child prodigy, becomes the youngest professor at Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay at the age of 22. He is set to join as an assistant professor in the Department of Physics from next week.<\/p>\n<p>He had completed his high school at the age of nine, earned his BSc degree at 10 and M.Sc at the age of 12. At the age of 21, Tulsi completed his doctorate in Quantum Computing from Indian Institute of Science.<\/p>\n<p>The young professor, who has never studied in a classroom, plans to ask his students how they would want to be taught. \u201cI have never taught in a class. But I believe I can come down to the level of a student and help them understand the subject,\u201d he said. When asked about his future plans, he said \u201cI want to pursue my research and at IIT-B, I will have the leisure to continue my research and one day set up a lab focused on quantum computation in our country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Tulsi had to turn down offers from Waterloo University in Canada and the Indian Institute of Science Education &amp; Research (IISER), Bhopal to come and teach at IIT-B.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Tathagat Avatar Tulsi, a Patna-born child prodigy, becomes the youngest professor at Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay at the age of 22.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1517,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - 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