Nikhil Srivastava
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| Fields |
Computer Scientist Mathematician |
| Institutions | University of California, Berkeley |
| Alma mater |
Union College Yale University |
| Thesis | Spectral Sparsification and Restricted Invertibility (2010) |
| Doctoral advisor | Daniel Spielman |
| Known for | Kadison-Singer problem |
| Notable awards | Pólya Prize (2014) |
Nikhil Srivastava has been an assistant professor of Mathematics at University of California, Berkeley since 2015. In July 2014, he was named a recipient of the Pólya Prize with Adam Marcus and Daniel Spielman.
Nikhil Srivastava attended Union College in Schenectady, New York, graduating summa cum laude with a bachelor of science degree in mathematics and computer Science in 2005. He received a PhD in computer science from Yale University in 2010 (his dissertation was called "Spectral Sparsification and Restricted Invertibility").
In 2013, together with Adam Marcus and Daniel Spielman, he provided a positive solution to the Kadison–Singer problem, a result that was awarded the 2014 Pólya Prize.
He gave an invited lecture at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 2014.
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