Manindra Agrawal

Manindra Agrawal (born 20 May 1966) is an Indian computer scientist and director of Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. He is also a professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur.^[1] He was the recipient of the first Infosys Prize for Mathematics,^[2] the Godel Prize in 2006; and the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award in Mathematical Sciences in 2003. He has been honoured with Padma Shri, India's 4th highest civilian award, in 2013.^[3][4]

Manindra Agrawal
Born	(1966-05-20) 20 May 1966 (age 58)
Nationality	Indian
Alma mater	Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
Known for	AKS primality test
Awards	Clay Research Award (2002) S S Bhatnagar Prize (2003) ICTP Prize (2003) Fulkerson Prize (2006) Gödel Prize (2006) Infosys Prize (2008) G.D. Birla Award for Scientific Research (2009) Padma Shri (2013)
Scientific career
Fields	Computer Science
Institutions	Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
Doctoral advisor	Somenath Biswas
Doctoral students	Neeraj Kayal Nitin Saxena

Career

He created the AKS primality test with Neeraj Kayal and Nitin Saxena, for which he and his co-authors won the 2006 Fulkerson Prize, and the 2006 Gödel Prize. He was also awarded 2002 Clay Research Award for this work. The test is the first unconditional deterministic algorithm to test an n-digit number for primality in a time that has been proven to be polynomial in n.^[5]

In September 2008, Agrawal was chosen for the first Infosys Mathematics Prize for outstanding contributions in the broad field of mathematics.^[6] He also served on the Mathematical Sciences jury for the Infosys Prize in 2014 and 2015. He was a visiting scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study in 2003-04.^[7]

Agarwal served as the Deputy Director of IIT Kanpur from 2017 to 2021.

On, 19 April 2024 he was appointed as the Director of IIT Kanpur.^[8]

Awards and honors

• Clay Research Award (2002)
• S S Bhatnagar Prize in Mathematical Sciences (2003)
• ICTP Prize (2003)
• Fulkerson Prize (2006)
• Gödel Prize (2006)
• Infosys Prize (2008)
• G.D. Birla Award for Scientific Research (2009)
• TWAS Prize in Mathematics (2010)^[9]
• Padma Shri (2013)
• Asian Scientist 100, Asian Scientist (2016)^[10]
• Goyal Prize (2017)