Indian computer scientist (born 1978)
Subhash Khot FRS (born 10 June 1978 in Ichalkaranji )[ 1] is an Indian-American mathematician and theoretical computer scientist who is the Julius Silver Professor of Computer Science in the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University . Khot has contributed to the field of computational complexity , and is best known for his unique games conjecture .[ 2]
Khot received the 2014 Rolf Nevanlinna Prize by the International Mathematical Union and received the MacArthur Fellowship in 2016.[ 3] He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2017[ 4] and was inducted into the National Academy of Sciences in 2023.[ 5]
Education
Khot obtained his bachelor's degree in computer science from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay in 1999.[ 6] He received his doctorate degree in computer science from Princeton University in 2003 under the supervision of Sanjeev Arora . His doctoral dissertation was titled "New Techniques for Probabilistically Checkable Proofs and Inapproximability Results."[ 7]
Honours and awards
Khot is a two time silver medallist representing India at the International Mathematical Olympiad (1994 and 1995).[ 8] [ 9] Khot topped the highly difficult IIT JEE entrance exam in 1995.
He has been awarded the Microsoft Research New Faculty Fellowship Award (2005),[ 10] the Alan T. Waterman Award (2010), the Rolf Nevanlinna Prize for his work on the Unique Games Conjecture (2014), and the MacArthur Fellowship (2016).[ 11]
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2017,[ 12] and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2023.[ 13]
References
^ "Subhash Khot - Heidelberg Laureate Forum" . - Heidelberg Laureate Forum . Retrieved 3 July 2024 .
^ Khot, Subhash (2002), "On the power of unique 2-prover 1-round games", Proceedings of the 17th Annual IEEE Conference on Computational Complexity , p. 25, CiteSeerX 10.1.1.133.5651 , doi :10.1109/CCC.2002.1004334 , ISBN 978-0-7695-1468-0 , S2CID 32966635 .
^ "Subhash Khot - MacArthur Foundation" .
^ "Subhash Khot" . Royal Society. Archived from the original on 23 May 2017. Retrieved 27 May 2017 .
^ "News | NYU Courant" . cims.nyu.edu . Retrieved 27 August 2023 .
^ "Prof. Subhash Khot, B.Tech., 1999, Computer Science and Engineering" . Alumni . IIT Bombay. Retrieved 4 April 2024 .
^ "ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award 2003" . Archived from the original on 3 November 2014. Retrieved 13 September 2014 .
^ Subhash Khot's results at International Mathematical Olympiad
^ Shirali, S.A. (2006), "The Sierpinski problem", Resonance , 11 (2): 78–87, doi :10.1007/BF02837277 , S2CID 121269449
^ Microsoft Faculty Fellowship Recipients 2005
^ "MacArthur Fellows Program" . Archived from the original on 2 April 2012.
^ "Subhash Khot" . Royal Society. Archived from the original on 23 May 2017. Retrieved 27 May 2017 .
^ "News | NYU Courant" . cims.nyu.edu . Retrieved 27 August 2023 .
External links
"Biographie de SUBHASH KHOT (1978- )" . Encyclopædia Universalis (in French).
International National Academics