About the Authors
Rohit Gurjar
Postdoctoral fellow
Tel Aviv University
Tel Aviv, Israel
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Postdoctoral fellow
Tel Aviv University
Tel Aviv, Israel
rohitgurjar0[ta]gmail[td]com
www.cse.iitk.ac.in/users/rgurjar
Rohit Gurjar is currently a postdoctoral fellow at Tel Aviv University, working with Amir Shpilka.
His previous postdoc was at Aalen University (2015-16) with Thomas Thierauf.
Before that he was at Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur for 10 long years for his B.Tech.-M.Tech. (2005-10) and
Ph.D. (2010-15).
He was very fortunate
to have Manindra Agrawal and Nitin Saxena as his
Ph.D. supervisors. His Ph.D. thesis was chosen for the ACM India Doctoral Dissertation Award, 2017.
He is in general interested in theoretical computer science, and in particular in computational complexity and derandomization.
Some problems on which he has worked
are polynomial identity testing, perfect matching, and matrix completion.
He likes hiking, cycling and listening to music.
Arpita Korwar
Ph.D. student
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
Kanpur, India
arpk[ta]cse[td]iitk[td]ac[td]in
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Ph.D. student
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
Kanpur, India
arpk[ta]cse[td]iitk[td]ac[td]in
www.cse.iitk.ac.in/users/arpk
Arpita Korwar is a Ph.D. student at IIT Kanpur
advised by
Manindra Agrawal and
Nitin Saxena.
Her work has also been influenced by
Somenath Biswas.
Her interests are in the theoretical aspects of computer science, especially in using algebraic techniques for computational complexity. Currently she is working on polynomial identity testing and arithmetic lower bounds with
Hervé Fournier and
Guillaume Malod
at University
of Paris Diderot.
She visited Thomas
Thierauf at the
University of Ulm
a couple of times during her Ph.D. studies.
She likes the outdoors and sports!
Nitin Saxena
Associate Professor
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India
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Associate Professor
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India
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www.cse.iitk.ac.in/users/nitin
Nitin Saxena received his Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur in 2006. He was truly fortunate to have Manindra Agrawal for his supervisor. He also spent
stints
at Princeton University (2003-04) and
at the National University of Singapore (2004-05). He was a postdoc
at the Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica Amsterdam (2006-08) and a faculty
at the Hausdorff Center for Mathematics Bonn (2008-13). Nitin's long-term interests are in
algebra-flavored computational complexity problems.
He has contributed to primality testing, polynomial identity testing, polynomial independence, polynomial factoring and polynomial equivalence problems. Some of these works have been awarded
the Gödel prize, Fulkerson prize, CCC best paper (2006),
and ICALP best paper (2011) awards.
He enjoys interacting with enthusiastic young
researchers.
In his spare (& non-spare) time he enjoys listening to music,
watching movies, reading non-fiction, swimming and travelling.