Umesh Vazirani | |
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Nationality | Indian–American |
Alma mater | MIT, University of California, Berkeley |
Known for | Bernstein-Vazirani algorithm |
Relatives | Vijay Vazirani (brother) |
Awards | Fulkerson Prize (2012) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Quantum computation, Computational complexity |
Institutions | University of California, Berkeley |
Thesis | Randomness, Adversaries and Computation (1986) |
Doctoral advisor | Manuel Blum |
Doctoral students | |
Website | www |
Umesh Virkumar Vazirani is an Indian–American academic who 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. His research interests lie primarily in quantum computing. He is also a co-author of a textbook on algorithms.[1]