Santosh Vempala
{{Short description|Indian computer scientist (born 1971)}}
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| name = Santosh Vempala
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1971|10|18}}
| birth_place = Visakhapatnam, India
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| nationality = Indian
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| field = Computer Science
| work_institution = Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
Georgia Institute of Technology
| alma_mater = Carnegie Mellon University(PhD)
IIT, Delhi(B.Tech)
| doctoral_advisor = Avrim Blum
| prizes = Fellow of ACM (2015)
| website = http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~vempala/
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Santosh Vempala (born 18 October 1971) is a prominent computer scientist. He is a Distinguished Professor of Computer Science at the Georgia Institute of Technology. His main work has been in the area of Theoretical Computer Science.
Biography
Vempala secured B.Tech. degree in Computer Science and Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, in 1992 then he attended Carnegie Mellon University, where he received his Ph.D. in 1997 under professor Avrim Blum.{{mathgenealogy|name=Santosh Vempala|id=50347}}.
In 1997, he was awarded a Miller Fellowship at Berkeley. Subsequently, he was a professor at MIT in the Mathematics Department, until he moved to Georgia Tech in 2006.
In 2024, he and Ben Cousins won the Fulkerson Prize for Gaussian cooling and algorithms for volume and Gaussian volume{{Cite web |title=News from the AMS |url=https://www.ams.org/news?news_id=7345 |access-date=2024-10-12 |website=American Mathematical Society |language=en}}.
Work
His main work has been in the area of theoretical computer science, with particular activity in the fields of algorithms, randomized algorithms, computational geometry, and computational learning theory, including the authorship of books on random projectionS. Vempala, ``The Random Projection Method", American Mathematical Society, 2004. and spectral methods.R. Kannan and S. Vempala,``Spectral Algorithms'', Now Publishers Inc., 2009.
In 2008, he co-founded the Computing for Good (C4G)[http://www.cc.gatech.edu/about/advancing/c4g Computing for Good] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121101112850/http://www.cc.gatech.edu/about/advancing/c4g |date=2012-11-01 }} program at Georgia Tech.
Honors and awards
Vempala has received numerous awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, Sloan Fellowship, and being listed in
Georgia Trend's 40 under 40.[http://www.georgiatrend.com/October-2010/40-Under-40-Georgias-Best-Brightest/ "Georgia Trend 40 Under 40," Georgia Trend Magazine, October 2010]
He was named Fellow of ACM "For contributions to algorithms for convex sets and probability distributions" in 2015.{{cite web|url=http://www.acm.org/press-room/news-releases/2015/fellows-2015|title=ACM Fellows Named for Computing Innovations that Are Advancing Technology in the Digital Age|date=8 December 2015|publisher=ACM|access-date=9 December 2015|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20151209221613/http://www.acm.org/press-room/news-releases/2015/fellows-2015|archivedate=9 December 2015}} He was named a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society, in the 2022 class of fellows, "for contributions to randomized algorithms, high-dimensional geometry, and numerical linear algebra, and service to the profession".{{cite web|url=https://www.ams.org/fellows_by_year.cgi?year=2022|title=2022 Class of Fellows of the AMS|publisher=American Mathematical Society|access-date=2021-11-05}}
References
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External links
- [http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~vempala/ Santosh Vempala's home page]
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Category:Computer science educators
Category:Indian theoretical computer scientists
Category:Indian emigrants to the United States
Category:Carnegie Mellon University alumni
Category:2015 fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery