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India Today
2 days ago
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Indian‑origin professor wins Godel Prize for groundbreaking computer science work
A researcher of Indian origin, Eshan Chattopadhyay, who is an associate professor at Cornell University, has been awarded the 2025 Godel Prize, one of the most prestigious prizes in theoretical computer science. He is jointly honoured with David Zuckerman, a professor at the University of Texas at prize-winning paper, titled 'Explicit TwoSource Extractors and Resilient Functions', was first presented in 2016 and later published in the Annals of Mathematics in 2019. The work created a method—a twosource randomness extractor—that can convert two imperfect sources of random data into a strong random output, even if both sources are weak. This solved a key problem that had remained open for nearly 30 help generate reliable random data for computers, which is essential in fields like cryptography, secure communication, algorithms, and complex systems. Their contribution paves the way for better-designed systems and stronger cyber safety DETAILS AND PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND The Gdel Prize is awarded annually by ACM SIGACT and EATCS, alternating between ICALP and STOC conferences. Chattopadhyay and Zuckerman will receive the award in Prague at STOC2025, held from June 23 to Chattopadhyay earned his PhD from the University of Texas at Austin under David Zuckerman in 2016. He later joined Cornell in 2018 after postdoctoral work at IAS Princeton and Simons Institute, Berkeley. Zuckerman has been a leader in pseudorandomness research since the FOR INNOVATION IN THEORYTheir 2016 STOC paper was already honoured with a Best Paper Award at the conference . Apart from the Gdel Prize, Chattopadhyay has received other awards, including the 2024 NAS Held Prize, the 2023 Sloan Fellowship, and funding from NSF including a CAREER recognition highlights how deep, abstract research can yield practical tools—impacting algorithms, secure systems, and even the future of Watch
India Today
2 days ago
- Science
- India Today
Indian-origin professor wins Godel prize for breakthrough in computer science research
Eshan Chattopadhyay, associate professor of computer science at Cornell University, and David Zuckerman, professor of computer science at the University of Texas, have been awarded the 2025 Gdel Prize for their research paper, "Explicit Two-Source Extractors and Resilient Functions". The paper showed how to turn two poor-quality random sources into one strong, reliable one—key for making secure, trustworthy computer Godel Prize is a top honour in theoretical computer science, given each year, sometimes shared, by ACM SIGACT and the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science. Named after famous logician Kurt Gdel, it recognises one research paper for its exceptional and lasting contribution to the IS RANDOMNESS EXTRACTION?Imagine you're flipping a weird coin that is not perfectly fair — sometimes it favours heads, sometimes tails. The result is still unpredictable, but not evenly so. Randomness extraction is the process of turning that weak, messy randomness into clean, strong, and fair random bits — like those from a perfect coin toss. The technique generates truly random numbers using less computing power than previous approaches, potentially boosting security for everything from credit card payments to military 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 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 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, 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 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 applications in complexity theory and cryptography, techniques introduced in the paper opened new approaches to long-standing problems in pseudo-randomness and explicit 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."
