Umesh Vazirani

Umesh Vazirani
Umesh Vazirani
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	Scott Aaronson; Andris Ambainis; Sanjeev Arora; Paul Christiano; Urmila Mahadev; Madhu Sudan; David Zuckerman;
Website	www.cs.berkeley.edu/~vazirani/

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]

^ Algorithms: Dasgupta, Papadimitriou, Vazirani

[DPV-1] Algorithms: Dasgupta, Papadimitriou, Vazirani

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