Indian-origin professor wins Godel prize for breakthrough in computer science research
The technique generates truly random numbers using less computing power than previous approaches, potentially boosting security for everything from credit card payments to military communications.WHO IS THE INDIAN-ORIGIN PROFESSOR?Chattopadhyay completed his PhD at UT Austin before joining Cornell University, where he now works on pseudorandomness, circuit complexity, and communication complexity, according to the University of Texas.In addition to the current honour, Chattopadhyay received a Sloan Research Fellowship in 2023, a National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER award in 2021 and an NSF Computer and Information Science and Engineering Research Initiation Initiative award in 2019.advertisementChattopadhyay conducted postdoctoral work at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton and the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing at the University of California, Berkeley.He earned his PhD at the University of Texas at Austin in 2016 and his BTech at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur in 2011, both in computer science, according to Cornell University.The work was originally published in the proceedings of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC) in 2016, where it received the Best Paper award, and later in the Annals of Mathematics in 2019, according to Cornell University.With applications in complexity theory and cryptography, techniques introduced in the paper opened new approaches to long-standing problems in pseudo-randomness and explicit constructions.Expressing his happiness, Chattopadhyay said, "This recognition is truly an incredible honour. The Gdel Prize has celebrated some of the most beautiful and foundational work in our field. It feels surreal and deeply gratifying that our paper is being placed in that category."
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