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Indian computer scientist

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Madhu Sudan is a male computer scientist and university teacher born in Chennai in 1966. He holds citizenship in India and the United States. His academic background includes education at the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi and the University of California, Berkeley, where he earned a Doctor of Philosophy. His doctoral advisor was Umesh Vazirani.

Sudan has served as an employee at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Association for Computing Machinery, the National Academy of Sciences, and the American Mathematical Society. He speaks English.

His notable work includes "Efficient checking of polynomials and proofs and the hardness of approximation problems." He has received the Gödel Prize, the IMU Abacus Medal, the ACM Fellow distinction, and the Infosys Prize. He is recognized in the American Academy Arts Sciences collection.

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  • Efficient checking of polynomials and proofs and the hardness of approximation problems

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Given name
Madhu
Gender
male
Citizenship
United States
Place of birth
Chennai
Languages spoken
English language
Academic degree
Doctor of Philosophy
Doctoral advisor
Umesh Vazirani
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date of birth
1966-09-12
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