Indian-origin professor wins Gödel Prize for research paper in Computer Science

Indian-origin professor Eshan Chattopadhyay, currently a teaching faculty at the Cornell University in USA, has been awarded the prestigious Gödel Prize for his outstanding contribution to theoretical computer science.

He shared the award with Professor David Zuckerman for their collaborative research paper titled “Explicit Two-Source Extractors and Resilient Functions.”

Professor Chattopadhyay, an alumnus of IIT Kanpur, has been a faculty member at Cornell for the past seven years. His award-winning research addresses key challenges in randomness extraction, a crucial area in theoretical computer science with implications in cryptography and complexity theory.

What is the Gödel Prize?

The Gödel Prize is a prestigious annual award that honors exceptional papers in the field of theoretical computer science. It is jointly presented by the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS) and the Association for Computing Machinery’s Special Interest Group on Algorithms and Computation Theory (ACM SIGACT).

Named after legendary logician Kurt Gödel, the prize recognizes research that significantly advances the understanding of computational theory. Gödel is renowned for his foundational work in mathematical logic and for laying the groundwork that continues to shape modern theoretical computer science.