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Aseem is an officer of the Indian Revenue Service, the Government of India's national tax administration, and a mathematician with a Ph.D. in Graph Theory (2026) from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT Delhi), completed under the supervision of Prof. B. S. Panda. He previously earned a Five-Year Integrated M. Tech. in Mathematics and Computing (2014) from IIT Delhi, where he received the Suyash Chandra Memorial Award for the Best Master's Thesis.
Alongside his academic research, he has extensive professional experience in international taxation, financial integrity, and anti-money laundering/countering the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT). His current research interests lie in applying network science and mathematical methods to the study of financial networks, corporate ownership structures, international taxation, and regulatory institutions.
He was a Visiting Research Scholar at the Department of Mathematics & Statistics, Auburn University, USA, during research visits in 2011 and 2024. During these visits, he collaborated with members of the Discrete Mathematics Group, including Prof. C. A. Rodger, Prof. Jessica McDonald, Dr. Songling Shan, and Prof. P. D. Johnson. These collaborations led to several publications in leading international journals in graph theory and combinatorics.
Professional Experience
Tax Administration, Policy and Research
Deputy Director, Foreign Asset Investigation Unit, Government of India (2026 - Present)
Transfer Pricing Officer, Government of India (2025 - 2026)
Deputy Commissioner, Tax Policy Research Unit, Government of India (2022 - 2025)
Deputy Commissioner, International Taxation, Government of India (2020 - 2022)
Financial Integrity (AML/CFT and FATF)
FATF Assessor for Mutual Evaluation of a G7 country (2025 - Present)
India's representative to FATF EMENA Joint Group (2023- Present)
Member of India's AML/CFT Risk Assessment Team (2025 - Present)
Member of FATF Training Project Team (2024-2025)
Member of core team for India's preparedness for FATF Mutual Evaluation (2022-2024)
FATF External Reviewer for Mutual Evaluation of Virgin Islands (British) (2023 - 2024)
Awards/Recognitions
Letter of Appreciation from the Joint Secretary, Department of Revenue, Government of India for leading the inter-agency team that conducted the sectoral risk assessment on the transparency of legal persons and legal arrangements (2026).
Letter of Appreciation from the current Vice President of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) for contributions to India's 2024 FATF Mutual Evaluation (2025).
Certificate of Merit from the Eurasian Group on Combating Money Laundering and Financing of Terrorism (EAG) in recognition of contributions to the activities and development of the EAG (2024).
Suyash Chandra Memorial Award for the Best Master's Thesis, Department of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (2014).
Selected Publications (View all)
A. Dalal and B. S. Panda, A sufficient condition for complete multipartite graphs to be of Type 1, Discrete Mathematics, 349(4) (2026), 114896.
A. Dalal, J. McDonald and S. Shan, A reduction of the “cycles plus K_4’s” problem, Discrete Mathematics 349 (2026), 114696.
A. Dalal, J. McDonald and S. Shan, Total coloring graphs with large maximum degree, Journal of Graph Theory, 110 (2025), 249–262.
A. Dalal and N. K. Govil, On comparison of annuli containing all the zeros of a polynomial, Applicable Analysis and Discrete Mathematics, 11(1) (2017), 232-241.
Invited Talks/Committees
Technical Assistance to the Government of Mauritius on FATF Immediate Outcome 5 - Legal persons and beneficial Ownership, April 2026.
Transfer Pricing Fundamentals, National Academy of Direct Taxes - RC, Bengaluru, June 2026
FATF Beneficial Ownership and Benami Transactions, AML/CFT Course for BRICS nations, hosted by National Academy of Direct Taxes, Nagpur, May 2026
National Taskforce for IT Enablement of Forms and Rules under Income Tax Act, 2025.
National Committee on Simplification of Income Tax Rules and Forms, 2025.
National committee on taxation of Shipping Companies, 2023.
National committee on framing of rules for flagging high-risk remittances, 2023.
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