 Shrinivas Kulkarni

Shrinivas Ramchandra Kulkarni (born 
4 October 1956) is a US-based astronomer born and raised in India.He is currently a professor of astronomy and planetary science at California Institute of Technology, and he served as director of Caltech Optical Observatory (COO) at California Institute of Technology, in which capacity he oversaw the Palomar and Keck among other telescopes.He is the recipient of a number of awards and honours.