Kannan Soundararajan (born December 27, 1973)[1] is an Indian-born American mathematician and a professor of mathematics at Stanford University.

Soundararajan joined the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in 1991 for undergraduate studies, and graduated with highest honours in 1995.

Soundararajan won the inaugural Morgan Prize in 1995 for his work in analytic number theory while an undergraduate at the University of Michigan,[2] where he later served as professor.

[7] He was awarded the Ostrowski prize[8] in 2011, shared with Ib Madsen and David Preiss, for a cornucopia of fundamental results in the last five years to go along with his brilliant earlier work.

[11] Kannan Soundararajan was invited as a plenary speaker[12] of the 2022 International Congress of Mathematicians, scheduled to take place in Saint Petersburg, but moved to Helsinki and online because of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.