Umesh Vazirani
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Umesh Virkumar Vazirani
is the Roger A. Strauch Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley
, and the director of the Berkeley Quantum Computation Center. Vazirani was himself a Ph.D. student at Berkeley, receiving his Ph.D. in 1986 under the supervision of Manuel Blum
. His research interests lie primarily in quantum computing. He is also the author of a textbook on algorithms. He is the brother of Georgia Tech College of Computing
professor Vijay Vazirani
. In 2005 they both were inducted as Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
, Umesh for “contributions to theoretical computer science
and quantum computation” and his brother Vijay for his work on approximation algorithm
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Vazirani
Vazirani is one of the rare surnames of a group of Hindu Sindhi Amils that have origins and roots in the Sindh province of Pakistan, especially around the Sukher region. Vaziranis are spread all over the world....
is the Roger A. Strauch Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley
University of California, Berkeley
The University of California, Berkeley , is a teaching and research university established in 1868 and located in Berkeley, California, USA...
, and the director of the Berkeley Quantum Computation Center. Vazirani was himself a Ph.D. student at Berkeley, receiving his Ph.D. in 1986 under the supervision of Manuel Blum
Manuel Blum
Manuel Blum is a computer scientist who received the Turing Award in 1995 "In recognition of his contributions to the foundations of computational complexity theory and its application to cryptography and program checking".-Biography:Blum attended MIT, where he received his bachelor's degree and...
. His research interests lie primarily in quantum computing. He is also the author of a textbook on algorithms. He is the brother of Georgia Tech College of Computing
Georgia Institute of Technology College of Computing
The College of Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology has roots stretching back to an Information Science degree established in 1964. In 1988, Georgia Tech president John Patrick Crecine elevated the School of Information and Computer Science to become the College of Computing, making...
professor Vijay Vazirani
Vijay Vazirani
Vijay Virkumar Vazirani is an Indian American Professor of Computer Science at Georgia Tech.He received his Bachelor's degree from MIT in 1979 and his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1983. During the early to mid nineties, he was a Professor of Computer Science at the Indian...
. In 2005 they both were inducted as Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
Association for Computing Machinery
The Association for Computing Machinery is a learned society for computing. It was founded in 1947 as the world's first scientific and educational computing society. Its membership is more than 92,000 as of 2009...
, Umesh for “contributions to theoretical computer science
Theoretical computer science
Theoretical computer science is a division or subset of general computer science and mathematics which focuses on more abstract or mathematical aspects of computing....
and quantum computation” and his brother Vijay for his work on approximation algorithm
Approximation algorithm
In computer science and operations research, approximation algorithms are algorithms used to find approximate solutions to optimization problems. Approximation algorithms are often associated with NP-hard problems; since it is unlikely that there can ever be efficient polynomial time exact...
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