# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/shrinivas-kulkarni
# Generated: 2026-09-01T01:19:23.996Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/shrinivas-kulkarni"
name: "Shrinivas Kulkarni"
slug: "shrinivas-kulkarni"
description: "Shrinivas Ramchandra Kulkarni is an Indian American astronomer. He is a professor of astronomy and planetary science at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), and was the director of the Caltech Optical Observatory (COO), overseeing the Palomar and Keck among other telescopes."
tagline: "American astronomer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Shrinivas_Kulkarni_2016_portrait_crop.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1956-10-04"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump