Nitin Saxena

Nitin Saxena
Born	3 May 1981 (1981-05-03) (age 30) Allahabad, India
Nationality	Indian
Fields	Mathematics Theoretical computer science
Institutions	University of Bonn
Alma mater	Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
Doctoral advisor	Manindra Agrawal
Notable awards	2006 Gödel Prize 2006 Fulkerson Prize

Nitin Saxena (Hindi: नितिन सक्सेना) (born 3 May 1981^[1]) is an Indian scientist, active in the fields of mathematics and theoretical computer science. His research focuses on topics in computational complexity, especially algebraic approaches.

He, along with Manindra Agrawal and Neeraj Kayal proposed the AKS Primality Test in 2002, for which the trio received the Gödel Prize in 2006. This research remarkably came out as a part of his undergraduate study.

In 2006 he received his PhD from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering of the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur. The Dissertation is titled "Morphisms of Rings and Applications to Complexity".^[2] He also graduated with his B.Tech from the same institute in 2002. He is also an alumnus of Boys' High School And College, Allahabad.

He was given the Distinguished Alumnus Award of the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, for his work in computational complexity theory. Nitin Saxena was appointed at the Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) starting as a postdoc researcher from September 1, 2006.^[3] Since Summer 2008 Nitin Saxena is a Bonn Junior Fellow at the University of Bonn in Germany.^[1]

References

1. ^ ^{a b} Saxena's CV at University of Bonn
2. ^ Saxena's PhD thesis
3. ^ [1]

External links

• Nitin Saxena's Homepage
• Profile of Nitin Saxena at the IIT Kanpur Alumni Association
• Kayal, Neeraj; Saxena, Nitin (2005), Polynomial Identity Testing for Depth 3 Circuits, ECCC TR05-150 .
• Nitin Saxena at the Mathematics Genealogy Project.

Persondata
Name	Saxena, Nitin
Alternative names
Short description	Indian mathematician and computer scientist
Date of birth	3 May 1981
Place of birth	Allahabad, India
Date of death
Place of death