Madhu Sudan
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Madhu Sudan (born 12 September 1966)<ref name="nevanlinna"/> is an Indian-American computer scientist. He has been a Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences since 2015.
Career
He received his bachelor's degree in computer science from IIT Delhi in 1987<ref name="nevanlinna"/> and his doctoral degree in computer science at the University of California, Berkeley in 1992.<ref name="nevanlinna"/><ref>Template:Mathgenealogy</ref> The dissertation he wrote at the University of California, Berkeley is titled Efficient Checking of Polynomials and Proofs and the Hardness of Approximation Problems. He was a research staff member at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York from 1992 to 1997 and became a researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) after that.<ref name="nevanlinna"/> From 2009 to 2015 he was a permanent researcher at Microsoft Research New England before joining the Harvard University faculty in 2015.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Research contribution and awards
In 1998, he received the Sloan Research Fellowship.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> He was awarded the Rolf Nevanlinna Prize at the 24th International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) 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.<ref name="nevanlinna">Template:Citation.</ref> For the same work, he received the ACM's Distinguished Doctoral Dissertation Award in 1993 and the Gödel Prize in 2001 and was an Invited Speaker of the ICM in 1998.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> He is a Fellow of the ACM (2008).<ref>Biography</ref> In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.<ref>List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2013-08-05.</ref> In 2014 he won the Infosys Prize in the mathematical sciences.<ref name="infosys">Madhu Sudan, Infosys Prize Laureates, retrieved 2015-02-28.</ref> In 2017 he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences.<ref>National Academy of Sciences Members and Foreign Associates Elected, National Academy of Sciences, 2 May 2017.</ref> In 2021, he was awarded the IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal for 2022.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Sudan has made important contributions to several areas of theoretical computer science, including probabilistically checkable proofs, non-approximability of optimization problems, list decoding, and error-correcting codes.<ref name="infosys"/>
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- 1966 births
- Living people
- Indian computer scientists
- Indian emigrants to the United States
- American computer scientists
- Theoretical computer scientists
- 20th-century Indian mathematicians
- University of California, Berkeley alumni
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology faculty
- Gödel Prize laureates
- Nevanlinna Prize laureates
- American people of Indian Tamil descent
- 2008 fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
- Fellows of the American Mathematical Society
- IIT Delhi alumni
- Scientists from Chennai
- American academics of Indian descent
- Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences
- Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences faculty
- Simons Investigator
- Sloan Research Fellows