Dr. Kirankumar Hiremath is an Associate Professor of Mathematics at IIT Jodhpur. He is an applied mathematician working in wave-matter interactions, mathematical physics, scientific computations, and applied analysis. His specialization is mathematical optics-photonics and the design of efficient methods to solve real life problems. He did his post-graduation from IIT Bombay and PhD from the University of Twente (The Netherlands). After that, he did his post-doc at Optoelectronics Center, University of North Carolina at Charlotte (USA), and Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Germany). He worked at Zuse Institute Berlin (Germany). Since 2012, he has been with IIT Jodhpur. He is also a member of the Interdisciplinary Research Group on Quantum Information. His mathematical work on bent waveguides, microresonators, and coupled mode theory is very well received.