Chennai: Saket Saurabh, a professor in the theoretical computer science group from the Institute of Mathematical Sciences (IMSC), Chennai, has been awarded the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar prize for Science and Technology 2021, – is considered the most coveted science gift in India.
The award, which was given by the Indian Scientific and Industrial Research Council (CSIR), was announced this year on the CSIR foundation day celebrated on September 26, 2021.
Saket Saurabh joined the IMSC as a faculty member in 2009 after completing a PhD on theoretical computer science at the IMSC In 2008 and had a postdoctoral task at Bergen University, Norway.
He has done pioneer work on the complexity of parameters (this recent approach to computing difficult problems), graph algorithms, satisfaction problems and more.
He has written together two books and several surveys on the complexity of parameterization.
He has guided 14 Bachelor of PhD, including 13 at the IMSC.
Saurabh, who has received a grant of the European Research Council twice, is the recipient of the initial researcher in the early Indian 2020 ACM and was elected as a member of the Indian Science Academy in 2020.