Nikhil Srivastava is an associate professor of Mathematics at

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. In July 2014, he was named a recipient of the Pólya Prize with Adam Marcus and

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Early life and education

Nikhil Srivastava was born New Delhi, India. He attended

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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

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in 2010 (his dissertation was called "Spectral Sparsification and Restricted Invertibility").

Awards

In 2013, together with Adam Marcus and

, he provided a positive solution to the Kadison–Singer problem, a result that was awarded the 2014 Pólya Prize. He gave an invited lecture at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 2014. 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 graph

In 2022 The Ciprian Foias Prize in Operator Theory was awarded to Adam Marcus, Daniel Spielman, and Srivastava for their notable work in Operator Theory that was published in the preceding six years.

References

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