Dr. Sanjeev Arora

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Biography

Sanjeev Arora is the Charles C. Fitzmorris Professor of Computer Science at Princeton University and the founding director of the Princeton Language Intelligence initiative. He joined Princeton in 1994 after earning his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. Over his career, Professor Arora has received numerous accolades including the Fulkerson Prize in Discrete Mathematics in 2012, the ACM Prize in Computing in 2011, and has been a co-winner of the EATCS-SIGACT Gödel Prize in both 2001 and 2010. He is also a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and is a Fellow of the ACM. In 2018, he was a plenary lecturer at the International Congress of Mathematicians. His research has been broadly recognized, having won paper awards from IEEE FOCS and ACM STOC. Additionally, he served as the lead principal investigator for the NSF-funded Center for Computational Intractability from 2008 to 2013.

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Requirements for Princeton University

Doctorate Program
Requirements
GPA Requirement
Required:3
GRE General
TOEFL
Speaking
Required:27
IELTS
Speaking
Required:8
Prerequisites
Bachelor's degree in engineering or science Strong background in mathematics, materials, physics, or related engineering
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Specialization Notes

GRE scores are not accepted. Ph.D. is the primary degree; students are not required to hold an M.S.E. prior to admission.