- Venkatesan Guruswami
Infobox_Scientist
name = Venkatesan Guruswami
caption =
birth_date = 1976
birth_place =India
residence =USA
nationality =India n
field =Computer Science
work_institution =University of Washington
alma_mater = Indian Institute of TechnologyMassachusetts Institute of Technology
doctoral_advisor =Madhu Sudan Venkatesan Guruswami (born 1976) is a
Computer Scientist atUniversity of Washington inSeattle ,USA . He ranked second All India inIIT-JEE in 1993. He completed hisundergraduate inComputer Science fromIIT Madras and hisdoctorate fromMassachusetts Institute of Technology under the supervision ofMadhu Sudan in 2001 [http://people.csail.mit.edu/madhu/] . His primary area of research isComputer Science , where he is well-known for his work on error-correcting codes.Guruswami was awarded the 2002 ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award for his dissertation "List Decoding of Error-Correcting Codes". [http://www1.acm.org/awards/dd_citation/2002.html] . This breakthrough
PhD thesis introduced an algorithm that allowed for the correction of errors beyond half the minimum distance of the code. It applies to Reed–Solomon codes and more generally toalgebraic geometric code s. This algorithm produces a list of codewords (it is alist-decoding algorithm) and is based on interpolation and factorization of polynomials over and its extensions.Selected publications
*cite journal|last = Guruswami|first = Venkatesan|title = List Decoding of Error-Correcting Codes|journal = Springer Verlag 2004| url = http://www.springer.com/computer/foundations/book/978-3-540-24051-8
*cite journal|last = Guruswami|first = Venkatesan|title = Improved decoding of Reed-Solomon and algebraic-geometry codes|journal = IEEE Transactions on Information Theory |volume = 45(6)|date = 1999|url = http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/Xplore/login.jsp?url=/iel5/18/16978/00782097.pdfNotes
External links
* [http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/venkat/ Venkatesan Guruswami's Homepage]
* [http://www.genealogy.ams.org/id.php?id=55201 Mathematics Genealogy Project]
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