Biography:  MADHU SUDAN

Madhu Sudan recently joined Microsoft Research at their New England 
Research Center as a Principal Researcher. He is currently on leave 
from MIT where he was the Fujitsu Professor of EECS. 
Madhu Sudan got his Bachelors degree from IIT Delhi in 1987 and his
Ph.D. from UC Berkeley in 1992. From 1992-1997 he was a Research Staff
Member at IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center. He joined MIT in 1997
where among other roles he was an Associate Director of MIT's CSAIL from
2007-2009.

Madhu Sudan's research lies in the fields of computational complexity 
theory, algorithms and reliable communcation. He is best known for his 
works on probabilistic checking of proofs, and on the design of 
list-decoding algorithms for error-correcting codes. His current 
research interests include semantic communication and property testing. 
In 2002, Madhu Sudan was awarded the Nevanlinna Prize, for outstanding 
contributions to the mathematics of computer science, at the 
International Congress of Mathematicians in Beijing.