Ketan Mulmuley

Ketan Mulmuley is a professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Chicago, and a sometime visiting professor at IIT Bombay.[1] He specializes in theoretical computer science, especially computational complexity theory, and in recent years has been working on "geometric complexity theory", an approach to the P versus NP problem through the techniques of algebraic geometry, with Milind Sohoni of IIT Bombay.[2] He is also known for his result with Umesh Vazirani and Vijay Vazirani that showed that "Matching is as easy as matrix inversion",[3] in a paper that introduced the isolation lemma.[4]

Education

Mulmuley earned his Bachelors of Technology in Electrical Engineering from IIT Bombay[5] and earned his PhD in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University[1] in 1985 under Dana Scott.

Honors, awards and positions

Mulmuley's doctoral thesis Full Abstraction and Semantic Equivalence was awarded the 1986 ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award.[6] He was awarded a Miller fellowship at the University of California, Berkeley for 1985–1987,[7] was a fellow at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation[8] in 1990, and was later awarded Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship for the year 1999–2000.[1] He currently holds a professorship at the University of Chicago, where he is a part of the Theory Group.[9]

Books

  • Jonah Blasiak; Ketan Mulmuley; Milind Sohoni (2015), Geometric Complexity Theory IV: Nonstandard Quantum Group for the Kronecker Problem, American Mathematical Society, ISBN 978-1-4704-2227-1
  • Ketan Mulmuley (1985), Full abstraction and semantic equivalence, MIT Press, ISBN 978-0-262-13227-5
  • Ketan Mulmuley (1994), Computational geometry: an introduction through randomized algorithms, Prentice-Hall, ISBN 978-0-13-336363-0

References

  1. ^ a b c Page at IIT Bombay (visiting professor)
  2. ^ Lance Fortnow, "Status of the P vs NP Problem", CACM, September 2009
  3. ^ Mulmuley, K.; U. V Vazirani; V. V Vazirani (1987), "Matching is as easy as matrix inversion", Combinatorica, 7 (1): 105–113, CiteSeerX 10.1.1.70.2247, doi:10.1007/BF02579206, S2CID 47370049. STOC version: doi:10.1145/28395.383347
  4. ^ The Isolation Lemma and Beyond, by Richard J. Lipton
  5. ^ Foundation Day - Distinguished Alumni, Young Alumni Achievers and Research Awards presented
  6. ^ ACM Award citation
  7. ^ Miller Institute for Basic Research in Science Celebrating 50 years
  8. ^ David and Lucile Packard Foundation About Ketan D. Mulmuley's Work
  9. ^ Theory Group Department of Computer Science Faculty List


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