Professor Raghavan K N obtained his PhD in Mathematics from Purdue University in 1991. After a two-year stint at Michigan State University as a Postdoc, he joined the Chennai Mathematical Institute as Faculty in 1993.  He moved to the Institute of Mathematical Sciences (IMSc) in 2001, from where he retired voluntarily in 2024 as a Senior Professor. He specialises in the representation theory of groups and algebras and is the co-author, with Professor V Lakshmibai, of a monograph on Standard Monomial Theory: an Invariant Theoretic Approach.