Sanjeev Arora

Sanjeev Arora is an Indian-American theoretical computer scientist, born in 1968, who works on artificial intelligence and machine learning and is Charles C. Fitzmorris Professor of Computer Science at Princeton University. He is a two-time winner of the Godel Prize, in 2001 and 2010, received the ACM Infosys Foundation Award in 2011, and won the Fulkerson Prize in 2012 for improving the approximation ratio for graph separators, work done jointly with Satish Rao and Umesh Vazirani. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2015 and to the National Academy of Sciences in 2018, and was a plenary speaker at the 2018 International Congress of Mathematicians. He coauthored with Boaz Barak the book Computational Complexity: A Modern Approach and directs Princeton Language and Intelligence.