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Venkatesan Guruswami is a Chancellor's Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS) at the University of California, Berkeley. He received his B. Tech. degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras in 1997 and completed his Ph.D. in Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2001. Before joining UC Berkeley in January 2022, he held faculty positions at the University of Washington and Carnegie Mellon University. His research interests encompass theoretical computer science, particularly in the areas of mathematics, error-correction, approximate optimization, randomness in computing, and computational complexity. He has made significant contributions to the development of list error-correction codes and has worked on various topics including polar codes, deletion-correcting codes, cloud storage, and constraint satisfaction problems. Guruswami has held leadership roles in the theory computing community and serves as the editor-in-chief of the Journal of the ACM and the journal TheoretiCS. He has been a program committee chair for several major conferences and is a fellow of the ACM and IEEE. He has received numerous awards including the Simons Investigator award and the ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award.
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