MIT
"Madhu Sudan is sited for his seminal contribution to probabilistically checkable proofs (PCPs). The PCP Theorem has been hailed as one of the most fundamental contributions of theoretical computer science. Sudan’s work on list-decoding opened up the possibility of correcting far larger numbers of errors in data than previously thought possible — bringing new vigor and advances to the field. The focus of Prof. Sudan's work has been on how to efficiently extract useful information from data that has errors. This theme has wide-ranging applications: from theoretical (e.g., how to verify a proof) to practical (e.g., how to recover correct data stored on a CD when it gets scratched).
Prior to joining Microsoft Research New England in 2009, Prof. Madhu Sudan joined the MIT faculty in 1997 — where among other roles he served as an Associate Director of MIT's CSAIL from 2007-2009. He received his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley in 1992. His current research interests include semantic communication and property testing.
Sudan has won many awards for his work during his distinguished career, including the ACM Distinguished Doctoral Dissertation (1993), the Godel Prize (2001), and the Rolf Nevanlinna Prize (2002). He is a fellow of ACM and of American Mathematical Society."
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