Madhu Sudan

Madhu Sudan ( born September 2, 1966 in Chennai) is an Indian computer scientist.

Sudan studied at the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi ( BA 1987) and received his doctorate in 1992 at Caltech with Umesh Vazirani. After that, he was until 1997 at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center of IBM in Yorktown Heights and then professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the laboratory for computer science and Artificial Intelligence ( CSAIL ). Since 2009 he is a permanent member of Microsoft Research New England in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

In 2002 he was awarded the Nevanlinna Prize for his work on PCP ( probabilistically checkable proofs ) and error-correcting codes. He also received the 1993 Distinguished Doctoral Dissertation Award from the ACM and the 2001 Gödel Prize of the EATCS. He is a Fellow of the ACM since 2008 and was elected in 2010 a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

He is a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society.