Nikhil Srivastava

Nikhil Srivastava is an associate professor of Mathematics at University of California, Berkeley. In July 2014, he was named a recipient of the Pólya Prize with Adam Marcus and Daniel Spielman.

Nikhil Srivastava
Alma materUnion College
Yale University
Known forKadison-Singer problem
AwardsPólya Prize (2014)[1]
Michael and Sheila Held Prize (2021)[2]
Scientific career
FieldsComputer Science
Mathematics
InstitutionsUniversity of California, Berkeley
ThesisSpectral Sparsification and Restricted Invertibility (2010)
Doctoral advisorDaniel Spielman[3]
Websitemath.berkeley.edu/~nikhil/

Early life and education

Nikhil Srivastava was born New Delhi, India. He attended Union College in Schenectady, New York, graduating summa cum laude with a Bachelor of Science degree in mathematics and computer science in 2005. He received a PhD in computer science from Yale University in 2010 (his dissertation was called "Spectral Sparsification and Restricted Invertibility").

Awards

In 2013, together with Adam Marcus and Daniel Spielman, he provided a positive solution to the Kadison–Singer problem,[4][5] a result that was awarded the 2014 Pólya Prize.

He gave an invited lecture at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 2014.[6] He jointly won the 2021 Michael and Sheila Held Prize along with two others for solving long-standing questions on the Kadison-Singer problem and on Ramanujan graphs.

References
  1. SIAM: George Pólya Prize
  2. "National Academy of Sciences - Michael and Sheila Prize".
  3. Nikhil Srivastava at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  4. Marcus, Adam W.; Spielman, Daniel A.; Srivastava, Nikhil (2015), "Interlacing families I: Bipartite Ramanujan graphs of all degrees", Annals of Mathematics, 182 (1): 307–325, arXiv:1304.4132, doi:10.4007/annals.2015.182.1.7
  5. Marcus, Adam W.; Spielman, Daniel A.; Srivastava, Nikhil (2015), "Interlacing Families II: Mixed Characteristic Polynomials and the Kadison–Singer problem", Annals of Mathematics, 182 (1): 327–350, arXiv:1306.3969, doi:10.4007/annals.2015.182.1.8, S2CID 17580893
  6. "ICM Plenary and Invited Speakers since 1897". International Congress of Mathematicians.


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