Manindra Agrawal (born 20 May 1966) is an Indian

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and director of Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. He is also a professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. He was the recipient of the first Infosys Prize for Mathematics, the Godel Prize in 2006; and the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award in Mathematical Sciences in 2003. He has been honoured with

Padma Shri The Padma Shri (IAST: ''padma śrī'', lit. 'Lotus Honour'), also spelled Padma Shree, is the fourth-highest Indian honours system, civilian award of the Republic of India, after the Bharat Ratna, the Padma Vibhushan and the Padma Bhushan. In ...

, India's 4th highest civilian award, in 2013.

Career

He created the

AKS primality test The AKS primality test (also known as Agrawal–Kayal–Saxena primality test and cyclotomic AKS test) is a deterministic primality-proving algorithm created and published by Manindra Agrawal, Neeraj Kayal, and Nitin Saxena, computer scientist ...

with Neeraj Kayal and Nitin Saxena, for which he and his co-authors won the 2006

Fulkerson Prize The Fulkerson Prize for outstanding papers in the area of discrete mathematics is sponsored jointly by the Mathematical Optimization Society (MOS) and the American Mathematical Society (AMS). Up to three awards of $1,500 each are presented at e ...

, and the 2006

Gödel Prize The Gödel Prize is an annual prize for outstanding papers in the area of theoretical computer science, given jointly by the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS) and the Association for Computing Machinery Special Inter ...

. He was also awarded 2002 Clay Research Award for this work. The test is the first unconditional deterministic algorithm to test an ''n''-digit number for primality in a time that has been proven to be

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in ''n''. In September 2008, Agrawal was chosen for the first Infosys Mathematics Prize for outstanding contributions in the broad field of mathematics. He also served on the Mathematical Sciences jury for the Infosys Prize in 2014 and 2015. He was a visiting scholar at the

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in 2003-04. Agarwal served as the Deputy Director of IIT Kanpur from 2017 to 2021. On, 19 April 2024 he was appointed as the Director of IIT Kanpur.

Awards and honors

* Clay Research Award (2002) * S S Bhatnagar Prize in Mathematical Sciences (2003) *

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(2003) *

(2006) *

(2006) * Infosys Prize (2008) * G.D. Birla Award for Scientific Research (2009) *

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in Mathematics (2010) *

(2013) *

Asian Scientist 100 The Asian Scientist 100 is an annually published list of 100 prize-winning Asian researchers, academicians, innovators and business leaders from across the Asia-Pacific region and a range of scientific disciplines. Recipients "must have received ...

, ''

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'' (2016) * Goyal Prize (2017)

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