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2 days ago
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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."
India Today
29-04-2025
- Business
- India Today
Canada election: Record number of Indian-origin candidates set for victory
A record number of Indian-origin candidates are set to be elected to the House of Commons even as Liberal Party leader and Prime Minister Mark Carney pulled off a victory in the general election in Canada on Tuesday. Twenty-two Indian-origin candidates from Carney's Liberal Party and Pierre Poilievre's Conservative Party are set to become members of the Canadian Parliament. The number of Indian-origin MPs in the outgoing House of Commons, the lower house, was good show by the Indian-origin candidates came even as 46-year-old New Democratic Party (NDP) leader Jagmeet Singh failed to retain his Burnaby Central seat, finishing a distant third with 18.1% of the votes. The seat was won by Liberal Party's Wade Chang, who secured 42.1% of the Carney-led Liberal Party has secured a fourth consecutive term but fell just short of an outright majority. While the Liberals were set to win 168 seats, an outright majority needed 172 seats. A majority would have strengthened Carney's position in negotiations over tariffs with US President Donald Trump, experts had vowed to take a firm stance with Washington on its import tariffs and said Canada would need to invest billions to reduce its reliance on the US. Voting was held for the 343-member House of Commons—the lower house of Parliament. A party needs 172 seats to form a results are likely to be confirmed by April LEADERS SHINE IN LIBERAL PARTYSukh Dhaliwal (Liberal) was leading from Surrey–Newton and was on course to securing a seat for a record sixth from Punjab, the 65-year-old former engineer and land surveyor first represented Newton–North Delta from 2006 to 2011 and was then re-elected from Surrey–Newton in 2011, 2015, 2019, and Liberal candidate, Randeep Sarai, won from Surrey Centre. A skilled lawyer and entrepreneur, Sarai successfully retained his seat. Born and raised in Vancouver, he has represented the constituency since winners from the Liberal Party include Parm Bains (Steveston–Richmond East), Gurbux Saini (Fleetwood–Port Kells), Anju Dhillon (Quebec), Ruby Sahota (Brampton North), Iqwinder Gaheer (Mississauga–Malton), Maninder Sidhu (Brampton East), Sonia Sidhu (Brampton South), Anita Anand (Oakville East), and Bardish Chagger (Waterloo).INDIAN-ORIGIN CANDIDATES FROM CONSERVATIVESSukhman Singh Gill won the Abbotsford–South Langley seat and is likely to be the youngest MP in the new Panchi won from New Westminster–Burnaby–Maillardville, becoming the first Indian-origin MP from New Indian-origin MPs from the Conservative Party include Jasraj Singh Hallan (Calgary East), Dalwinder Gill (Calgary McKnight), Amanpreet Singh Gill (Calgary Skyview), and Tim Uppal (Edmonton Mill Woods). Amandeep Judge (Brampton North), Bob Dosanjh (Brampton East), Sukhdeep Kang (Brampton South), Amarjeet Gill (Brampton West), Arpan Khanna (Oxford).advertisementThere are around 1.8 million Indo-Canadians and one million non-resident Indians in Canada, making up over 3% of its population. Canada also hosts approximately 427,000 Indian students.
