Tarun , an IISER Pune alumnus, is a Mathematician by training, who started teaching at 16 and founded Sciensation.tv at 19, to spreading university level research based teaching at school level. Tarun had worked with Dr Vijay Bhatkar (Padma Bhushan awardee, team leader, PARAM supercomputer) and Prof.R.Ramanujam (Professor, IMSc Chennai) during course at IISER, besides research projects at IIT Hyd and IMSc. His Masters Thesis was on Game Theory & Theoretical Computer Science. Tarun has experience...
Tarun , an IISER Pune alumnus, is a Mathematician by training, who started teaching at 16 and founded Sciensation.tv at 19, to spreading university level research based teaching at school level. Tarun had worked with Dr Vijay Bhatkar (Padma Bhushan awardee, team leader, PARAM supercomputer) and Prof.R.Ramanujam (Professor, IMSc Chennai) during course at IISER, besides research projects at IIT Hyd and IMSc. His Masters Thesis was on Game Theory & Theoretical Computer Science. Tarun has experience in Mass media production, blogging, video editing, graphic design, event management, marketing, recruitment which he leverages for interdisciplinary discussions.
Achievements
- TEDx speaker, "How my passion for teaching made me turn down IIT/IIM"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EV8QY-UP58
- One of the youngest teacher trainers in Hyderabad, started at 25
- KVPY Fellow (2009-2014) and IAS Summer Research Fellow (2010)
- 2nd position, Madhava Mathematics Competition, organized by NBHM, Govt of India and TIFR, 2010
- 5th position, AP Mathematics Olympiad 2006
Expertise
- Design Thinking Coach- Tarun combines his entrepreneurial experience and science background to teach user centric problem solving through scientific diagnosis/prototyping.
- Dialogue/Debate Coach- how can we be open to perspectives, how do we critically evaluate
perspectives? Tarun had moderated several Socratic Dialogues from 2011-present
- Pedagogue/Teacher Trainer- Tarun has been working on scaling the MIT/Harvard/IISER approach to learning, by nurturing the intellectual capabilities of students.
- Mathematics Anxiety- How do we relax math anxiety? How can we get students to appreciate abstract mathematical concepts through better examples and better questions?
- Career Coach- How are the future careers going to change? What are the courses/universities which you are not aware of? Tarun had rejected an admit at IIT/IIM and has a network of well wishers across different parts of the world, which he leverages to guide parents/students.
Topics
Tarun had spoken at various platforms, addressing students, working professionals around diversetopics like Indian Philosophy, Entrepreneurship, Game Theory, Business Strategy and Mathematics. He had also delivered guest sessions at schools/colleges on how the abstract topics in the curriculum could be extrapolated to diverse situations. Tarun is a rare speaker who doesn’t believe in the “beyond the curriculum, within the curriculum” divide, he can effortlessly switch between both.
