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# Sanjeev Arora

Title/Position
Charles C. Fitzmorris Professor
Degree
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1994
arora (@cs.princeton.edu) (609) 258-3869 407 Computer Science
Homepage
https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~arora

## Research

Interests: Developing mathematical and conceptual understanding to enable better and safer AI
Member, National Academy of Sciences, 2018; Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2015; ACM Prize in Computing, 2011, Fulkerson Prize, 2012; Gödel Prize, 2010 and 2001; ACM Fellow, 2009.

Research Areas:

- Machine Learning
- Natural Language Processing
- Theory

## Short Bio

Sanjeev Arora is the Charles C. Fitzmorris Professor in Computer Science. He joined Princeton in 1994 after earning his PhD from the UC Berkeley. Professor Arora won the Fulkerson Prize in Discrete Mathematics in 2012, the ACM Prize in Computing in 2011, EATCS-SIGACT Gödel Prize (cowinner) twice, in 2001 and 2010, the Packard Fellowship (1997) and the ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award (1995). 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.

## Selected Publications

See Google Scholar for new work

- “Computational Complexity: A Modern Approach. “ S. Arora and B. Barak, Cambridge University Press, 2009. (book)
- “Proof verification and intractability of approximation problems.” “S. Arora, C. Lund, R. Motwani, M. Sudan, and M. Szegedy. JACM 45(3):501–555, 1998. (Prelim. Version IEEE FOCS 1992.)
- “Probabilistic Checking of Proofs: A New Characterization of NP.” S. Arora and S. Safra. Journal of the ACM 45(1):70–122, 1998. (Prelim. Version IEEE FOCS 1992.)
- “Expander flows, geometric embeddings, and graph partitioning.” S. Arora, S. Rao, and U. Vazirani. JACM 2008. (Prelim version ACM STOC, 2004.)
- For new papers please see the Google Scholar Page.

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