Vinay Vithal Deodhar (died January 18, 2015) was a Professor Emeritus with the Department of Mathematics at the Indiana University who worked in the area of algebraic groups and representation theory.
He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Mumbai in 1974 for his work On Central Extensions of Rational Points of Algebraic Groups done under the supervision of M. S. Raghunathan.
He was a visiting scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study during 1975-77 and 1992-93.