Biography:  MADHU SUDAN

Madhu  Sudan  received  his  Bachelor's  degree  from  the Indian
Institute of Technology at New Delhi in 1987 and his  Ph.D.  from
the University of California at Berkeley in 1992. From 1992-1997
he was a Research Staff Member at IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research
Center. In 1997, he moved to MIT where he is now the 
Fujitsu Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
He was a Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study from 
2003-2004, and a Guggenheim Fellow from 2005-2006.

Madhu Sudan's research interests include computational complexity
theory,  algorithms  and coding theory.  He is best known for his
works on  probabilistic  checking  of  proofs, and on the  design
of   list-decoding   algorithms   for  error-correcting codes. He
has served on numerous program committees   for  conferences   in
theoretical    computer   science, and was the  program  committee  
chair   of  the IEEE Conference on Computational Complexity '01, and
the IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science '03.  He is 
the chief editor of Foundations and Trends in Theoretical Computer
Science, a new journal publishing surveys in the field. He is 
currently a  member  of  the  editorial  boards  of  the  Journal of 
the ACM and the  SIAM  Journal on Computing. Previously he served
on the boards of the SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics, Information
and Computation, and the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory.
Madhu Sudan is a recipient of numerous awards including the ACM 
Doctoral Dissertation Award (1992), the IEEE Information Theory 
Society Paper Award (2000), the Godel Prize (2001) and the 
Nevanlinna Prize (2002).