Manindra Agrawal (born 20 May 1966) is a professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering and the Deputy Director at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur.[1] He was also the recipient of the first Infosys Prize for Mathematics,[2] the Godel Prize in 2006; and the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award in Mathematical Sciences in 2003. He has been honoured with Padma Shri in 2013.[3][4]
Early life and education
Manindra Agrawal obtained a B.Tech. from IIT Kanpur (1986 batch). He later joined as a Ph.D. student in the same institute.
Career
He created the AKS primality test with Neeraj Kayal and Nitin Saxena, for which he and his co-authors won the 2006 Fulkerson Prize, and the 2006 Gödel Prize. He was also awarded a 2002 Clay Research Award for this work. The test is the first unconditional deterministic algorithm to test an n-digit number for primality in a time that has been proven to be polynomial in n.[5]
In September 2008, Agrawal was chosen for the first Infosys Mathematics Prize for outstanding contributions in the broad field of mathematics.[6] He also served on the Mathematical Sciences jury for the Infosys Prize in 2014 and 2015. He was a visiting scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study in 2003-04.[7]
Awards and honors
- Clay Research Award (2002)
- Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology (2003)
- ICTP Prize (2003)
- IIT Kanpur Distinguished Alumnus Award (2003)
- Fulkerson Prize (2006)
- Gödel Prize (2006)
- G D Birla Award (2009)
- TWAS Prize (2010)[8]
- Padma Shri (2013)
- ACCS-CDAC Foundation Award (2014)
References
- ↑ INSA Fellow. INSA(2016). Retrieved May 13, 2016.
- ↑ Infosys Prize 2008 Template:Webarchive
- ↑ Template:Cite press release
- ↑ Possibility of Third Wave of COVID-19 in India Now Negligible, Says IIT Professor.
- ↑ Publications, Agrawal, Manindra. Retrieved 16 November 2010.
- ↑ Bangalore: IIT-Kanpur professor bags first Infosys Mathematics Prize. Mangalorean.com(16 September 2008).
- ↑ Institute for Advanced Study: A Community of Scholars
- ↑ Prizes and Awards. The World Academy of Sciences(2016).
External links
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