Rahul Mahajan was born in Philadelphia, PA, in 1969. He received his Bachelor`s in Mathematics from Caltech in 1992 and will receive his Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Texas at Austin in August 2002. He has been an Austin resident for most of his life, starting when his family moved here in 1977 and continuing except for brief periods when he went away to school.
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