Nikhil Srivastava is an associate professor of Mathematics at

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. In July 2014, he was named a recipient of the Pólya Prize with Adam Marcus and

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Early life and education

Nikhil Srivastava was born New Delhi, India. He attended

Union College Union College is a private liberal arts college in Schenectady, New York. Founded in 1795, it was the first institution of higher learning chartered by the New York State Board of Regents, and second in the state of New York, after Columbia Co ...

in Schenectady, New York, graduating summa cum laude with a Bachelor of Science degree in mathematics and computer science in 2005. He received a PhD in computer science from

Yale University Yale University is a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and among the most prestigious in the wo ...

in 2010 (his dissertation was called "Spectral Sparsification and Restricted Invertibility").

Awards

In 2013, together with Adam Marcus and

, he provided a positive solution to the

Kadison–Singer problem In mathematics, the Kadison–Singer problem, posed in 1959, was a problem in functional analysis about whether certain extensions of certain linear functionals on certain C*-algebras were unique. The uniqueness was proved in 2013. The statement a ...

, a result that was awarded the 2014 Pólya Prize. He gave an invited lecture at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 2014. He jointly won the 2021 Michael and Sheila Held Prize along with two others for solving long-standing questions on the Kadison-Singer problem and on Ramanujan graph

References

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