Sanjeev Arora (computer scientist)
Theoretical computer scientist
Sanjeev Arora (born January 1968) is an Indian-American theoretical computer scientist who works in AI and Machine learning. He is a Charles C. Fitzmorris Professor in Computer Science at Princeton University.
Career
He was a visiting scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study in 2002–03.
In 2008 he was inducted as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery.
In 2011 he was awarded the ACM Infosys Foundation Award (now renamed ACM Prize in Computing), given to mid-career researchers in Computer Science. He is a two-time recipient of the Gödel Prize (2001 & 2010). Arora has been awarded the Fulkerson Prize for 2012 for his work on improving the approximation ratio for graph separators and related problems from
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(jointly with Satish Rao and Umesh Vazirani). In 2012 he became a Simons Investigator. Arora was elected in 2015 to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and in 2018 to the National Academy of Sciences. He was a plenary speaker at the 2018 International Congress of Mathematicians.
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