 After serving as Distinguished Visiting Professor at the IAS in 2017-2018, he returns to the IAS as a permanent faculty member in mid-August 2018.Venkatesh was awarded the Salem Prize, given to a "young mathematician judged to have done outstanding work in Salem's field of interest—the theory of Fourier series" and the Packard Fellowship in 2007.In 2008, he received the US$10,000 SASTRA Ramanujan Prize, given for "outstanding contributions to areas of mathematics influenced by the great Indian mathematician, Srinivasa Ramanujan" and "only awarded to those under the age of thirty-two (the age of Ramanujan at his time of death)."