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Manindra Agrawal
Manindra Agrawal | |
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| Born | 20 May 1966 |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Alma mater | Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur |
| Known for | AKS primality test |
| Awards | Clay Research Award (2002) S S Bhatnagar Prize (2003) ICTP Prize (2003) Fulkerson Prize (2006) Gödel Prize (2006) G.D. Birla Award for Scientific Research (2009) Padma Shri (2013) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Computer Science |
| Institutions | Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur |
| Doctoral advisor | Somenath Biswas |
| Doctoral students | Neeraj Kayal Nitin Saxena |
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[edit]
Manindra Agrawal obtained a B.Tech. from IIT Kanpur (1986 batch). He later joined as a Ph.D. student in the same institute.
Career[edit]
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[edit]
- 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[edit]
- ↑ "INSA Fellow". INSA. 2016. Archived from the original on 12 August 2016. Retrieved 13 May 2016.
- ↑ Infosys Prize 2008 Archived 13 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ "List of Padma awardees" (Press release). New Delhi: NDTV. 25 January 2013. Retrieved 28 January 2013.
- ↑ "Possibility of Third Wave of COVID-19 in India Now Negligible, Says IIT Professor".
- ↑ Agrawal, Manindra. "Publications". Retrieved 16 November 2010.
- ↑ "Bangalore: IIT-Kanpur professor bags first Infosys Mathematics Prize". Mangalorean.com. 16 September 2008. Archived from the original on 14 July 2011.
- ↑ Institute for Advanced Study: A Community of Scholars
- ↑ "Prizes and Awards". The World Academy of Sciences. 2016.
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- Living people
- Marwari people
- 1966 births
- Clay Research Award recipients
- Fellows of The National Academy of Sciences, India
- Fellows of the Indian Academy of Sciences
- Fellows of the Indian National Science Academy
- Gödel Prize laureates
- Indian computer scientists
- Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur alumni
- Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur faculty
- Institute for Advanced Study visiting scholars
- Indian number theorists
- People from Kanpur
- Recipients of the Padma Shri in science & engineering
- Alexander von Humboldt Fellows
- Scientists from Allahabad
- 21st-century Indian mathematicians
- 20th-century Indian mathematicians
- TWAS laureates
- Foreign associates of the National Academy of Sciences
- Recipients of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award in Mathematical Science