Amit Kumar (academic)

Amit Kumar (born 29 January 1976) is Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi. He received his B.Tech. degree from Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur in 1997, and Ph.D. from Cornell University in 2002. He worked as Member of Technical Staff at Bell Labs, Murray Hill, New Jersey, USA during 2002-2003. He joined IIT Delhi as faculty member in 2003.[1] He works in the area of combinatorial optimization, approximation algorithms and online algorithms. He is working extensively on problems arising in scheduling theory, clustering, and graph theoretic algorithmic problems.

Amit Kumar
Born (1976-01-29) 29 January 1976
Patna, Bihar
NationalityIndian
Alma materIndian Institute of Technology Kanpur(Bachelor's Degree)
Cornell University(PhD)
AwardsShanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology (2018)
Scientific career
FieldsAlgorithms
Combinatorial optimization
Approximation algorithm
InstitutionsIndian Institute of Technology Delhi (IIT Delhi)
Doctoral advisorJon Kleinberg
Doctoral studentsArindam Pal
Websitewww.cse.iitd.ernet.in/~amitk/

Awards

He received Young Engineer Award from Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE) in 2006,[2] and INSA Medal for Young Scientists from Indian National Science Academy (INSA) in 2011.[3] He was awarded the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology in the mathematical sciences category in 2018.[4]

References
  1. http://www.cse.iitd.ernet.in/~amitk/bio.html
  3. "INSA".
  4. "Brief Profile of the Awardee". Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize.
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