Vijay Vazirani

Vijay Vazirani
At UC Irvine, 2021
Born	1957 India
Nationality	American
Alma mater	MIT (Bachelor's degree) University of California, Berkeley (PhD) Harvard University (PostDoc)
Known for	Valiant–Vazirani theorem, Isolation lemma
Relatives	Umesh Vazirani (brother)
Awards	ACM Fellow Guggenheim Fellowship John von Neumann Theory Prize
Scientific career
Fields	algorithms, computational complexity theory, algorithmic game theory.
Institutions	Georgia Institute of Technology Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi University of California, Irvine
Thesis	Maximum Matchings without Blossoms  (1985)
Doctoral advisor	Manuel Blum
Doctoral students	Naveen Garg Samir Khuller
Website	www.ics.uci.edu/~vazirani

Vijay Virkumar Vazirani (Hindi: विजय वीरकुमार वज़ीरानी; b. 1957^[1]) is an Indian American distinguished professor of computer science in the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Irvine.