Eknath Prabhakar Ghate

Eknath Prabhakar Ghate (born 11 September 1969) is a mathematician specialising in number theory and working in the School of Mathematical Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India. He was awarded the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for science and technology, the highest science award in India, for the year 2013 in mathematical science category. He was schooled at Mayo College Ajmer and is an alumnus of St. Stephen's College, Delhi. He earned his PhD from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1996. Ghate is also an alumnus of College of Arts & Sciences, University of Pennsylvania.

In number theory, Ghate is mostly interested in problems connected to automorphic forms, Galois representations, and the special values of L-functions.