Suketu Bhavsar is Professor Emeritus in Physics & Astronomy at Cal Poly Pomona (CPP). He was born and grew up in India. After graduating from IIT Mumbai, he came to USA for graduate studies and received his PhD in Astrophysics from Princeton University. His research contributions have been in cosmology, discovering the fractal hierarchy of galaxy clustering in the universe and creating statistical pattern recognition tools to quantify the large-scale filamentary, “web-like,” structure of visible matter in the universe. He has received the Provost, Alumni, and Dean's awards for his teaching.

Bhavsar has served as President of the National Collegiate Honors Council, Director of the Kellogg Honors College at CPP and Director of the Honors Program at the University of Kentucky. He held prior research positions at the Raman Research Institute in Bangalore, University of Sussex in Great Britain, and Northwestern University in Evanston Illinois, as well as visiting positions at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville and the Indian Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pune, India.

He enjoys sharing his curiosity and fascination about the universe with the public and has been a speaker at public events such as the IdeaFestival in Louisville, Kentucky and at TEDx. He enjoys interdisciplinary teaching and travel. In addition to journeying through many countries by himself, he has led university students on educational travel in Ecuador, Peru and India with multidisciplinary faculty, and with university colleagues on Fulbright funded trips to China and Morocco.

In retirement he enjoys exploring the mysteries posed by consciousness, AI, QM and the nature of time. He is always excited to travel internationally and explore places he has never been to. He enjoys road trips and visits to national parks, America’s greatest treasure! When at home he enjoys neighborhood walks, swimming, listening to NPR, reading, watching movies and streaming well-made absorbing serials.