Madhu Sudan
Madhu Sudan (born September 2, 1966 in Chennai ) is an Indian computer scientist .
Sudan studied at the Indian Institute of Technology in Delhi (bachelor's degree 1987) and received his doctorate in 1992 at Caltech under Umesh Vazirani with the thesis Efficient Checking of Polynomials and Proofs and the Hardness of Approximation Problems. After that he was at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center of IBM in Yorktown Heights until 1997 and then professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in its laboratory for computer science and artificial intelligence (CSAIL). Since 2009 he has been a permanent member of Microsoft Research New England in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
In 1998 he received a scholarship from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation ( Sloan Research Fellow ). In 2002 he received the Nevanlinna Prize for his work on PCPs ( Probabilistically Checkable Proofs ) and error correcting codes . He also received the ACM's Distinguished Doctoral Dissertation Award in 1993 and the EATCS Gödel Prize in 2001 . He has been a Fellow of the ACM since 2008 and was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2010 and a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2017 .
He is a fellow of the American Mathematical Society .
Web links
- Old website at MIT (English)
- Site at Microsoft (English)
- Videos from and about Madhu Sudan in the AV portal of the Technical Information Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Madhu Sudan in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sudan, Madhu |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Madhusudan, மதுசூதன் (Tamil) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Indian computer scientist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 2nd September 1966 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Chennai |