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Ravindran Kannan is an Indian mathematician, computer scientist, and university teacher born in Chennai in 1953. He has been employed by Yale University, the Indian Institute of Science in Bengaluru, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Carnegie Mellon University. Kannan received his education at Cornell University and the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay.
His professional work focuses on informatics, algorithms, discrete mathematics, and computer science. He is recognized as a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Association for Computing Machinery. His notable works include Spectral Algorithms and Foundations of Data Science.
Kannan has received the Knuth Prize, the Fulkerson Prize, and the title of ACM Fellow. He speaks English and holds an Erdős number of 2.
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- Works
- 2
Top works
- Spectral Algorithms
- Foundations of Data Science
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- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- India
- Place of birth
- Chennai
- Occupation
- university teacher
- Educated at
- Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
- Employer
- Carnegie Mellon University
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Award
- ACM Fellow
- Field of work
- computer science
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- date of birth
- 1953-01-01
- Erdős number
- 2
- member of
- Association for Computing Machinery
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- Ravindran Kannan
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- WikiProject Mathematics
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