Madhu Sudan
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| Born | September 12, 1966 Chennai, India |
| Institutions | Microsoft Research, New England Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Alma mater | IIT Delhi University of California, Berkeley |
| Doctoral advisor | Umesh Virkumar Vazirani |
| Doctoral students | Yevgeniy Dodis |
| Notable awards | Rolf Nevanlinna Prize Gödel Prize |
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Madhu Sudan (Tamil: மதுசூதன்) (Marathi: मधु सुदन) (born September 12, 1966) is an Indian computer scientist, professor of computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and a member of MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.
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[edit] Career
He received his bachelor's degree in computer science from IIT Delhi in 1987 and his doctoral degree in computer science at the University of California, Berkeley in 1992. He was a research staff member at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York from 1992 to 1997 and moved to MIT after that. Since June 2009, he's been at Microsoft Research New England as a permanent researcher.
[edit] Research Contribution and Awards
He was awarded the Rolf Nevanlinna Prize at the 24th International Congress of Mathematicians in 2002. The prize recognizes outstanding work in the mathematical aspects of computer science. Sudan was honored for his work in advancing the theory of probabilistically checkable proofs—a way to recast a mathematical proof in computer language for additional checks on its validity—and developing error-correcting codes. For the same work, he received the ACM's Distinguished Doctoral Dissertation Award in 1993 and the Gödel Prize in 2001. He is a Fellow of the ACM (2008).[1]
Sudan has made important contributions to several areas of theoretical computer science, including probabilistically checkable proofs, non-approximability of optimization problems, and error-correcting codes.
[edit] External links
- DBLP: Madhu Sudan.
- Madhu Sudan's Home Page.
- Mathematician at MIT: Indian wins ‘junior Nobel.’
- Bio from the Microsoft Research New England page
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- 1966 births
- Living people
- Tamil Nadu scientists
- Indian computer scientists
- Indian emigrants to the United States
- American computer scientists
- Theoretical computer scientists
- American Hindus
- University of California, Berkeley alumni
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology faculty
- Gödel Prize laureates
- American people of Indian descent
- Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
- Indian Hindus
- Indian Institute of Technology Delhi alumni
