• Sanjeev Arora

    Charles C. Fitzmorris Professor
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    (609) 258-3869
    Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1994
    Sanjeev Arora
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    Sanjeev Arora is the Charles C. Fitzmorris Professor in Computer Science. He joined Princeton in 1994 after earning his PhD from UC Berkeley. Professor Arora won the Fulkerson Prize in Discrete Mathematics  in 2012, the ACM Prize in Computing in 2011, EATCS-SIGACT Gödel Prize (co-winner) twice, in 2001 and 2010, the Packard Fellowship (1997) and the ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award (1995). He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a Fellow of the ACM. He was a plenary lecturer at International Congress of Mathematicians in 2018. He was appointed a Simons Foundation investigator in 2012, and also won best paper awards in IEEE FOCS 2010 and ACM STOC 2004. Professor Arora was the founding director and lead PI at the NSF-funded Center for Computational Intractability in 2008-13.