About the Authors
Swastik Kopparty
Swastik Kopparty
Associate professor
Department of Mathematics
& Department of Computer Science
Rutgers University
Piscataway, NJ, USA
swastik.kopparty[ta]gmail[td]com
www.math.rutgers.edu/~sk1233
Swastik Kopparty got his Ph.D. in Computer Science from MIT in 2010, and was advised by Madhu Sudan. During 2010-2011, he was a postdoc at the Institute for Advanced Study and he has been at Rutgers University since then. Long before any of this, he got hooked on mathematics early in life because of his mathematician father (and eventual coauthor), K.P.S. Bhaskara Rao. Swastik's research interests are in complexity theory, error-correcting codes, finite fields, randomness and pseudorandomness.
Srikanth Srinivasan
Srikanth Srinivasan
Assistant professor
Department of Mathematics
IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India
srikanth[ta]math[td]iitb[td]ac[td]in
www.math.iitb.ac.in/~srikanth
Srikanth Srinivasan got his undergraduate degree from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras, where his interest in the theory side of CS was piqued under the tutelage of N.S. Narayanswamy. Subsequently, he obtained his Ph.D. from The Institute of Mathematical Sciences in 2011; his advisor was V. Arvind. His research interests span all of TCS (in theory), but in practice are limited to circuit complexity, derandomization, and related areas of mathematics. He enjoys running and pretending to play badminton.