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Jaikumar Radhakrishnan
Born30 May 1964
NationalityIndia
Alma materIndian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, Rutgers University
AwardsShanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology
Scientific career
Fieldscombinatorics, communication complexity
InstitutionsTata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai
Doctoral advisorEndre Szemerédi
Doctoral studentsSaswata Shannigrahi ,Chinmoy Dutta

Jaikumar Radhakrishnan (born 30 May 1964) is an Indian computer scientist specialising in combinatorics and communication complexity. He has served as dean of the School of Technology and Computer Science at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, where he is currently a professor.[1]

He obtained his B.Tech degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur in 1985 and his PhD in Computer Science from Rutgers University, NJ, USA in 1991. His research supervisor at Rutgers was Endre Szemerédi. His areas of research include combinatorics, randomness, pseudorandomness, information theory, communication complexity, computational complexity theory, quantum computation, quantum information science and algorithms.

He was awarded the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology in the mathematical sciences category in 2008, the highest science award in India. [2]

Other awards/honours

  • Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences, since 2007.

References

  1. ^ "Jaikumar Radhakrishnan" (PDF). Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai. Retrieved 1 July 2013.
  2. ^ "Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Awards For Science And Technology 2008". Department of Science & Technology, Govt of India. Retrieved 1 July 2013.

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