Venkatesan Guruswami (born 1976) is a senior scientist at the

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and Professor of EECS and Mathematics at the

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. He did his high schooling at

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, India. He completed his

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from

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and his

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from

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under the supervision of

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in 2001. After receiving his PhD, he spent a year at

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as a

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, and then was a member of the faculty at the

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from 2002 to 2009. His primary area of research is

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, and in particular on error-correcting codes. During 2007–2008, he visited the

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as a Member of School of Mathematics. He also visited SCS at

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during 2008–09 as a visiting faculty. From July 2009 through December 2020 he was a faculty member in the Computer Science Department in the School of Computer Science at

Recognition

Guruswami was awarded the 2002 ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award for his dissertation ''List Decoding of Error-Correcting Codes'', which introduced an algorithm that allowed for the correction of errors beyond half the minimum distance of the code. It applies to Reed–Solomon codes and more generally to algebraic geometric codes. This algorithm produces a list of codewords (it is a

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algorithm) and is based on interpolation and factorization of polynomials over

GF(2^m)

and its extensions. He was an invited speaker in

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2010,

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on the topic of "''Mathematical Aspects of Computer Science.''" Guraswami was one of two winners of the 2012

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, given by the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science for outstanding contributions by a young theoretical computer scientist. He was elected as an

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in 2017, as an

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in 2019, and to the 2023 class of Fellows of the

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, "for contributions to the theory of computing and error-correcting codes, and for service to the profession".

Selected publications

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References

External links

Venkatesan Guruswami's Homepage
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Guruswami, Venkatesan 1976 births Living people Scientists from Chennai Indian computer scientists Theoretical computer scientists IIT Madras alumni Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni Carnegie Mellon University faculty University of California, Berkeley faculty Padma Seshadri Bala Bhavan schools alumni Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery Fellows of the American Mathematical Society

Recognition

Selected publications

See also

References

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