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Nitin Saxena

Ph.D.(IIT Kanpur)

Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering

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Education

  • PhD in 2002/2006 (IIT Kanpur)
  • B.tech in 2002/2006 (IIT Kanpur)

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CV

  • Jacobian hits circuits: Hitting-sets, lower bounds for depth-D occur-k formulas & depth-3 transcendence degree-k circuits'' (with Manindra Agrawal, Chandan Saha and Ramprasad Saptharishi), 44th ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC), pp.599-614, 2012. [Invited in the special issue of SICOMP.]
  • Algebraic independence and blackbox identity testing'' (with Malte Beecken and Johannes Mittmann), 38th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming (ICALP), pp.137-148, 2011.[Awarded the Best Paper in Track A. Invited & published in the special issue of Inform. Comput.]
  • Blackbox identity testing for bounded top fanin depth-3 circuits: The field doesn't matter'' (with C.Seshadhri), 43rd STOC, pp.431-440, 2011.[Invited & published in the special issue of SICOMP.]
  • Polynomial identity testing for depth 3 circuits'' (with Neeraj Kayal), 21st IEEE Conference on Computational Complexity (CCC), pp.9-17, 2006. [Awarded the Best Paper and Best Student Paper Awards. Invited & published in the special issue of Comp. Complex.]
  • PRIMES is in P'' (with Manindra Agrawal and Neeraj Kayal),Annals of Mathematics, vol.160(2), 781-793, 2004. [Awarded Goedel Prize 2006 and Fulkerson Prize 2006.]

  • Best Paper at ICALP Conference – 2011. Awarded by EATCS the Best Paper Award (Track A) for the joint paper ``Algebraic independence and blackbox identity testing''.
  • IEEE Conference on Computational Complexity Awards -- 2006 . Awarded both the Best Paper Award and the Ronald V. Book Best Student Paper Award for the joint paper ``Polynomial Identity Testing for Depth 3 Circuits''.
  • Goedel Prize – 2006. Awarded by ACM-SIGACT & EATCS for the joint paper ``PRIMES is in P''.
  • Fulkerson Prize – 2006. Awarded by AMS & MPS for the joint paper ``PRIMES is in P''.
  • Distinguished Alumnus Award of IIT Kanpur -- 2003 . Global Indus Technovators Awards – 2003.

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RM-203,
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
IIT Kanpur,
Kanpur 208016

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