Ramesh Karki biography: 13 things about Richmond, Indiana mathematician

Ramesh Karki is a Nepali-American mathematician from Richmond, Wayne County, Indiana, United States. His research interests include partial differential equations and dynamical systems.

Karki is a former resident of Toledo, Lucas County, Ohio, USA and an alumnus of the University of Toledo in Toledo. Here are 13 more things about him:

1. He earned his bachelor’s degree in mathematics from Tribhuvan University in Kathmandu, Nepal. He is a former instructor of mathematics at the Amrit Science Campus and Kathmandu College, which are both affiliated with Tribhuvan University.
2. After graduating from the University of Toledo, he was employed by the university as an instructor in mathematics.
3. In 2010, he graduated from the University of Toledo with a master’s degree in mathematics.
4. He received the 2012 Charles Nicholas Memorial Award from the University of Toledo’s Department of Mathematics and Statistics. 
5. He is a recipient of the 2013 Wayne Dancer Memorial Award and the 2014 Academic Excellence Award.
6. In September 2014, he joined Indiana University in Bloomington, Monroe County, Indiana as a visiting assistant professor of mathematics. In the same month, Neural, Parallel and Scientific Computations published “Sobolev Gradients and Application to Nonlinear Pseudo-differential Equations”, which he authored.
7. In 2015, he graduated from the University of Toledo with a PhD in mathematics.
8. In May 2019, Le Matematiche published “On near-optimal time sampling for initial data best approximation,” which he co-authored with Roza Aceska and Alessandro Arsie.
9. In March 2022, Mathematics in Applied Sciences and Engineering published his article “On approximating initial data in some linear evolutionary equations involving fraction Laplacian”.
10. On January 6, 2023, he and Ashok Aryal presented “An approach for recovering initial temperature via bounded linear time sampling” at the 2023 Joint Mathematics Meetings at the Sheraton Boston Hotel in Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
11. In April 2023, he received tenure from Indiana University and was promoted to associate professor of mathematics.
12. On September 27, 2023, while he was employed as an assistant professor of mathematics at Indiana University, he was arrested on a soliciting charge in Operation Buyer’s Remorse, a human trafficking crackdown throughout Ohio.
13. He was 44 years old when he was arrested on September 27, 2023. He was booked into jail at around 3:00 p.m. and was later released after posting bond.