Salil Vadhan

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Who is Salil Vadhan?

Salil Vadhan is Vicky Joseph Professor of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics at Harvard University. He obtained his PhD in Applied Mathematics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1999, where his advisor was Shafi Goldwasser. His research centers around the interface between computational complexity theory and cryptography. He focuses on the topics of pseudorandomness and zero-knowledge proofs. His work on zig-zag product, with Omer Reingold and Avi Wigderson, was awarded the 2009 Gödel Prize.

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  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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on July 23, 2013

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