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]

He earned his PhD in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University[1] in 1985 under Dana Scott, winning the 1986 ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award for his thesis Full Abstraction and Semantic Equivalence.[5] He also won a Miller fellowship at the University of California, Berkeley for 1985–1987, and a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship for the year 1999–2000.[1]

Books
  • 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. 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, doi:10.1007/BF02579206. STOC version: doi:10.1145/28395.383347
  4. The Isolation Lemma and Beyond, by Richard J. Lipton
  5. ACM Award citation


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