Manindra Agrawal

Manindra Agrawal (born 20 May 1966) is an Indian computer scientist who became director of the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, where he is also a professor of computer science and engineering. With Neeraj Kayal and Nitin Saxena he created the AKS primality test, the first unconditional deterministic algorithm shown to decide whether an n-digit number is prime in time polynomial in n. The work earned the three authors the 2006 Godel Prize and the 2006 Fulkerson Prize, and Agrawal received a 2002 Clay Research Award for it. His other honours include the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize in Mathematical Sciences, the first Infosys Prize in Mathematics, the TWAS Prize in Mathematics and the Padma Shri. He was a visiting scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study in 2003 and 2004 and served as deputy director of IIT Kanpur before being appointed its director in 2024.