Kiran Sridhara Kedlaya (/ˈkɪrən ˈʃriːdər kɛdˈlɑːjə/ KIRR-ən SHREE-dər ked-LAH-yə;[3] born July 1974) is an American mathematician.

Kiran Kedlaya was born into a Tulu Brahmin family.

While an undergraduate student at Harvard, he was a three-time Putnam Fellow in 1993, 1994, and 1995.

[7] A 1996 article by The Harvard Crimson described him as "the best college-age student in math in the United States".

[8] Kedlaya was runner-up for the 1995 Morgan Prize, for a paper[9] in which he substantially improved on results of László Babai and Vera Sós (1985)[10] on the size of the largest product-free subset of a finite group of order n. He gave an invited talk at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 2010, on the topic of "Number Theory".