Meena Mahajan
Meena Bhaskar Mahajan is an Indian theoretical computer scientist and a professor at the Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai. Her research includes publications in parameterized complexity, algebraic circuit complexity, and algorithms for planar graphs.
Education and career
[edit]Mahajan is originally from Mumbai, the daughter of a government accountant.[1] She studied computer science at IIT Bombay, receiving a bachelor's degree in 1986 and master's degree in 1988. She completed a Ph.D. at IIT Madras in 1993.[2] Her dissertation, Studies in Language Classes Defined by Time-Varying Cellular Automata, was supervised by Kamala Krithivasan.[3]
After joining the Institute of Mathematical Sciences in Chennai as a postdoctoral researcher in 1993, she took a permanent faculty position at the institute in 1994.[2]
Recognition
[edit]Mahajan was elected to the Indian Academy of Sciences in 2022.[4] She is an eminent speaker of ACM India.[5] In 2024 she received the J. C. Bose National Fellowship of the Science and Engineering Research Board.[4]
References
[edit]- ^ "Proving her worth: Meena Mahajan", Her Story – IIT Bombay Gen Zero Women, IIT Bombay, 2022, retrieved 2024-10-29
- ^ a b Meena Mahajan, The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, retrieved 2024-10-29
- ^ Meena Mahajan at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ a b "Meena Mahajan", Infosys Prize 2024 jury, retrieved 2024-10-29
- ^ Featured Eminent Speaker of ACM India: Meena Mahajan, ACM India, retrieved 2024-10-29
External links
[edit]- Home page
- Meena Mahajan publications indexed by Google Scholar
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