Dr. Mahesh Sunkula

Assistant Professor of Practice
Department of Mathematics, Purdue University

Contact Information:

Office: Math 842

Email: msunkula@purdue.edu

Phone: +1 (765) 496-3621

Office Hours: Monday, Friday: 9:45 AM - 11:00 AM; Thursday: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Current Courses - Spring 2026

MA 261 - Multivariate Calculus

Archive of Lecture Materials

MA 161 - Calculus I

MA 162 - Calculus II

MA 261 - Multivariate Calculus

MA 511 - Linear Algebra and its Applicatons

Accessibility

This section contains resources and workflows for creating WCAG 2.2 Level AA compliant course materials.

All current course materials, including lecture notes and interactive visualizations, are developed with accessibility as a primary consideration. Students with accessibility needs are encouraged to contact me to discuss accommodations.

Research

My research is in applied mathematics. I work on research projects related to inverse problems, wave scattering, optimization.

For Students: If you are interested in working on an REU (Research Experience for Undergraduates) with me, please email me your CV, describing your programming experience and the mathematics courses you have taken or are planning to take.

Publications

Stochastic Moving Anchor Algorithms and Popov's Scheme with Moving Anchor - with Y. T. Chow, J. Alcala (arxiv pre-print)
Moving Anchor Extragradient Methods for Smooth Structured Minimax Problems - with Y. T. Chow, J. Alcala (arxiv pre-print, submitted for review)
Quantum integrable systems and concentration of plasmon resonance - with H. Ammari, Y. T. Chow, H. Liu. Journal of the European Mathematical Society 27(8), 3407-3445, 2025.
Judges' Commentary: Resource availability and sex ratios - with S. Zaytseva. The UMAP Journal 45(4), 2024.
Surface concentration of transmission eigenfunctions - with Y. T. Chow, Y. Deng, H. Liu. Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis 247, 54, 2023.
Judges' Commentary: Drought-Stricken Plant Communities - with S. Zaytseva. The UMAP Journal 44(4), 2023.
On the geometric quantization of focus-focus singularities - with G. Alston, N. P. Petrov. PhD Thesis, University of Oklahoma.