Dr. Eshan Chattopadhyay

(BT/CSE/2011)

Dr. Eshan Chattopadhyay is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Cornell University, where he has been on the faculty since 2018. Before joining Cornell, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and at the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing in Berkeley.

Dr. Chattopadhyay did his B.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. He went on to complete his Ph.D from the University of Texas, Austin. He later held postdoctoral positions at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing at UC Berkeley. His research is in theoretical computer science, focusing on computational complexity, the role of randomness in computation, and cryptography.

His work has been recognized with a number of awards, including the recent Gödel Prize,shared with David Zuckerman, for their influential research on randomness extraction, and the National Academy of Sciences Held Prize, as well as honors such as a Sloan Research Fellowship, an NSF CAREER Award, and a Best Paper Award at STOC.

Honouring his stellar contributions in the fields of Secure Computing, Foundations of Cryptography, and Theoretical Computer Science, IIT Kanpur confers upon Dr. Eshan Chattopadhyay the Young Alumni Award 2025.