Sanjeev Arora (born January 1968) is an Indian-American theoretical computer scientist who works in AI and Machine learning. He is a Charles C. Fitzmorris Professor in Computer Science at Princeton University.
Career He was a visiting scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study in 2002–03.Institute for Advanced Study: A Community of Scholars
In 2008 he was inducted as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery.ACM: Fellows Award / Sanjeev Arora In 2011 he was awarded the ACM Infosys Foundation Award (now renamed ACM Prize in Computing), given to mid-career researchers in Computer Science. He is a two-time recipient of the Gödel Prize (2001 & 2010). Arora has been awarded the Fulkerson Prize for 2012 for his work on improving the approximation ratio for graph separators and related problems from to (jointly with Satish Rao and Umesh Vazirani). In 2012 he became a Simons Investigator.Simons Investigators Awardees, The Simons Foundation Arora was elected in 2015 to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and in 2018 to the National Academy of Sciences. He was a plenary speaker at the 2018 International Congress of Mathematicians.
He is a coauthor (with Boaz Barak) of the book Computational Complexity: A Modern Approach. He was a founder of Princeton's Center for Computational Intractability. He and his coauthors have argued that certain financial products are associated with computational asymmetry, which under certain conditions may lead to market instability.Arora, S, Barak, B, Brunnemeier, M 2011 "Computational Complexity and Information Asymmetry in Financial Products" Communications of the ACM, Issue 5 see FAQ
Since September 2023, he is the founding Director of Princeton Language and Intelligence, a new unit at Princeton University devoted to study of large AI models and their applications.
Awards and Honors Sanjeev Arora, the Charles C. Fitzmorris Professor in Computer Science at Princeton University, has received numerous prestigious awards.
#Awards/HonorsYear(s)130-year Test of Time Award for FOCS 199320232Bell Labs Innovation Prize20203Plenary Speaker, International Congress of Mathematicians20184Inducted as Member, National Academy of Sciences20185Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences20156Simons Investigator2012-20227AMS-MOS D.R. Fulkerson Prize20128ACM Prize in Computing (formerly known as ACM-Infosys Foundation Award in the Computing Sciences)20119Best Paper, IEEE Foundations of Computer Science201010George Pólya Prize201011EATCS-SIGACT Gödel Prize2010, 200112Elected ACM Fellow200913Engineering Council Teaching Award, Princeton UniversityFall 200814Graduate Mentoring Award, Princeton University200515Best Paper, ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing200416Semiplenary speaker, International Symposium on Mathematical Programming200317Distinguished Alumnus Award, UC Berkeley Computer Science200318Invited speaker, Mathematical Aspects of Computer Science session, International Congress of Mathematicians200219Plenary speaker, ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing199820David and Lucile Packard Foundation Fellowship1997-200221Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship199622NSF CAREER Award199523ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award (cowinner)199524IBM Graduate Fellowship199325Ranked first in India, IIT Joint Entrance Exam1986
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External links Sanjeev Arora's Homepage Sanjeev Arora at the Mathematics Genealogy Project