Nitin Saxena
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Nitin Saxena is a Doctoral student at the Computer Science Department of the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India. He also graduated with his B.Tech from the same institute in 2002. He, along with Manindra Agrawal and Neeraj Kayal proposed the AKS Primality Test in 2002, for which the trio received the Gödel Prize in 2006. This research remarkably came out as a part of his undergraduate study.
He was given the Distinguished Alumnus Award of the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, for his work in computational complexity theory.
Nitin Saxena was appointed at the CWI and will start there as a postdoc researcher from September 1, 2006.
