Jaikumar Radhakrishnan

Jaikumar Radhakrishnan (born 30 May 1964) is an Indian computer scientist specialising in combinatorics and communication complexity. He has served as dean of the School of Technology and Computer Science at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India, where he is currently a senior professor.[1]

Jaikumar Radhakrishnan
Born30 May 1964
NationalityIndia
Alma materIIT Kharagpur, Rutgers University
AwardsShanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology
Scientific career
Fieldscombinatorics, communication complexity
InstitutionsTata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai
Doctoral advisorEndre Szemerédi

He obtained his B.Tech. degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur in 1985 and his Ph.D. in Theoretical Computer Science from Rutgers University, NJ, USA, in 1991 under the guidance of Endre Szemerédi. His first research paper, titled "Better Bounds for Threshold Formulas", won the Machtey Award for best student paper at the IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science (FOCS) in 1991. His areas of research include combinatorics, graph theory, probability theory, information theory, communication complexity, computational complexity theory, quantum computation and quantum information science.

He was awarded the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology in the category of Mathematical Sciences in 2008, India's highest honour for excellence in science, mathematics and technology.[2]

Other awards/honours
  • Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences, since 2007.
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References
  1. "Jaikumar Radhakrishnan" (PDF). Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai. Retrieved 1 July 2013.
  2. "Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Awards For Science And Technology 2008". Department of Science & Technology, Govt of India. Archived from the original on 24 August 2013. Retrieved 1 July 2013.


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