Rahul Pandharipande (born 1969) is an Indian-American mathematician at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich (ETH) working in algebraic geometry. His particular interests concern the moduli of curves, Gromov–Witten theory, and the moduli of sheaves.

He received his A.B. from Princeton University in 1990 and his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1994. His advisor at Harvard was Joe Harris. After teaching at the University of Chicago and the California Institute of Technology, he joined the faculty as Professor of Mathematics at Princeton in 2002. In 2011, he accepted a Professorship at ETH Zürich.He won Infosys Prize in 2013 for Mathematical Sciences category.