| Umesh Vazirani | |
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| Residence | USA |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Fields | Quantum Computation, Computational Complexity |
| Institutions | University of California, Berkeley |
| Alma mater | University of California, Berkeley |
| Doctoral advisor | Manuel Blum |
| Doctoral students | Scott Aaronson Andris Ambainis Sanjeev Arora Sanjoy Dasgupta Lisa Hales Sean Hallgren Lawrence Ip Milena Mihail Madhu Sudan David Zuckerman |
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Notes
He is the brother of Vijay Vazirani. |
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Umesh Virkumar Vazirani (Hindi: उमेश वीरकुमार वज़ीरानी) is the Roger A. Strauch Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley, and the director of the Berkeley Quantum Computation Center. Vazirani was himself a Ph.D. student at Berkeley, receiving his Ph.D. in 1986 under the supervision of Manuel Blum.[1] His research interests lie primarily in quantum computing. He is also the author of a textbook on algorithms. He is the brother of Georgia Tech College of Computing professor Vijay Vazirani. In 2005 they both were inducted as Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery, Umesh for “contributions to theoretical computer science and quantum computation”[2] and his brother Vijay for his work on approximation algorithms.[3]