- Madhu Sudan
Madhu Sudan ( _ta. மதுசூதன்) (born
September 12 ,1966 ) is anIndia ncomputer scientist ,professor ofcomputer science at theMassachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and a member ofMIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory .He was awarded the Rolf
Nevanlinna Prize at the 24thInternational Congress of Mathematicians in2002 . The prize recognizes outstanding work in the mathematical aspects of computer science. Sudan was honored for his work in advancing the theory ofprobabilistically checkable proof s—a way to recast a mathematical proof in computer language for additional checks on its validity—and developingerror-correcting code s. For the same work, he received the ACM's Distinguished Doctoral Dissertation Award in1993 and theGödel Prize in 2001.Madhu Sudan has made important contributions to several areas of theoretical computer science, including probabilistically checkable proofs, non-approximability of optimization problems, and error-correcting codes. His work is characterized by brilliant insights and wide-ranging interests.
Madhu Sudan was born in Madras (
Chennai ),India . He received his bachelor's degree in computer science fromIIT Delhi in1987 and his doctoral degree in computer science at theUniversity of California, Berkeley in1992 . He was a research staff member at theIBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center inYorktown Heights, New York from1992 to1997 .External links
* [http://dblp.uni-trier.de/db/indices/a-tree/s/Sudan:Madhu.html DBLP: Madhu Sudan] .
* [http://people.csail.mit.edu/madhu Madhu Sudan's Home Page] .
* [http://www.hvk.org/articles/0902/151.html Mathematician at MIT: Indian wins ‘junior Nobel.’]
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