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Eshan Chattopadhyay has won the Gödel Award in Theoretical Computer Science. He received this prestigious award for solving a problem that had puzzled researchers for almost 30 years. This discovery is a milestone not only in his career but also in the wider world of computing and Indian education.
Eshan grew up in India and graduated from IIT Kanpur, one of the top engineering institutes in the country. He earned his PhD at the University of Texas at Austin under the guidance of David Zuckerman. He then worked on research positions at places like UC Berkeley, Microsoft Research, and the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton.
He joined Cornell University in 2018 and became an assistant professor there in 2024. Here his work focused on pseudo randomness, extractors, and computational complexity. These works are related to modern data security and computation.
Apart from the Godel Prize, Ishan Chattopadhyay has also received the Sloan Research Fellowship and the NSF Career Award. He also contributes significantly to top conferences like FOCS, STOC, and SODA, and his research continues to push the boundaries of what is possible in computer science.
While the emphasis is on Artificial Intelligence at this time, Ishaan's achievement reminds us that fundamental principles still power the technology we rely on every day. Today the whole of India is proud of Ishaan.
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