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Know your alumni - Madhu Sudan |
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B Tech CSE, 1987, IIT Delhi |
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Note:
This section will highlight IITians who have contributed significantly to their
chosen fields. Please feel free to forward notes about alumni you know who
should be featured here to webmaster@iitdef.org. I did know Madhu in Aravalli -
actually cogged notes for him as part of my "initiation rites". We all
knew he was destined for higher things - our faith stands vindicated.
This
description is taken from an electronic News Letter from MIT.
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Madhu
Sudan received the B. Tech. degree in computer science from the Indian Institute
of Technology in New Delhi in1987 and the Ph.D. in computer science at the
University of California at Berkeley in 1992. He was a researcher at the IBM
Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, N.Y., from 1992 to 1997
before joining the MIT faculty in 1997. He has just been promoted to full
professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at
MIT.
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Madhu Sudan |
Madhu
Sudan has won the 2002 Rolf Nevanlinna Prize, one of the most prestigious
international awards in mathematics. He was recognized for his work in
theoretical computer science.
The
award, announced August 20 at a meeting of the International Mathematical Union
(IMU) in Beijing, recognizes “both existing work and the promise of future
achievement,” according to the IMU. As a result, it is limited to
mathematicians under the age of 40. The prize is awarded every four years.”
“We
are all delighted by this well deserved recognition of your superb research and
we are proud to have you as a faculty colleague,” Dean of Engineering Thomas
Magnanti told Sudan in a congratulatory e-mail. “I hope you are on cloud nine!”
Sudan,
35, was honored for outstanding contributions in mathematical aspects of
information sciences. “His work is characterized by brilliant insights and
wide-ranging interests,” according to the American Mathematical Society. He
could not be reached for his reaction to winning the coveted award.
Commented
Professor John Guttag, head of the Department of Electrical Engineering and
Computer Science (EECS): "Madhu combines enormous technical virtuosity with
a rare gift for choosing problems that are both important and deep. His
accomplishments are important not only in their own right, but for the impact
they have on the problems on which others choose to work. Madhu is also a great
colleague who contributes to EECS and MIT in many ways beyond his research
accomplishments.
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The
Mathematical Association of America described Sudan as a “a main player in the
development of methods for a ‘verifier’ (typically a computer) to establish
with a high degree of probability whether a proof is correct. He has also made
important contributions to error-correcting codes. These codes play an enormous
role in securing the reliability and quality of all kinds of information
transmission, from music recorded on CDs to communications over the Internet to
satellite transmissions.”
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Note: This description is taken from an electronic News Letter from MIT.
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