Quick Info
| Profession | Associate Professor |
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| Nationality | Indian |
| Birthplace | Ithaca, New York, United States |
Latest News about Eshan Chattopadhyay
02/11/2025
IIT Kanpur conferred the Young Alumni Award 2025 on Eshan Chattopadhyay, recognizing his early-career achievements in theoretical computer science and cryptography. The institute highlighted his role as an Associate Professor at Cornell University and his internationally recognized research contributions.
17/06/2025
Eshan Chattopadhyay won the 2025 Gödel Prize jointly with his PhD advisor David Zuckerman for their paper 'Explicit Two-Source Extractors and Resilient Functions.' The award recognized work that resolved a long-standing problem in randomness extraction by showing how to build high-quality randomness from two weak sources. The result has major implications for theoretical computer science and cryptography.
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Physical Stats & More
| Height | 5' 5" (165 cm) |
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| Eye Color | Black |
| Hair Color | Black |
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Personal Life
| Marital Status | Married |
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| Religion | Hinduism |
Relationships & More
| Children | Three children |
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Family
| Children | Three children |
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Career
| Current Position | Associate Professor (with tenure) in the Department of Computer Science at Cornell University since 2018 |
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| Research Focus | Theoretical computer science with emphasis on pseudorandomness, extractors, computational complexity theory, the role of randomness in computation, and cryptography. His work is critical for modern data security and efficient computation. |
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| Notable Achievement | Won the 2025 Gödel Prize for the paper 'Explicit Two-Source Extractors and Resilient Functions' (co-authored with David Zuckerman), which solved a nearly 30-year-old problem in randomness extraction by constructing a two-source extractor that generates high-quality randomness from weak sources. |
Social Media
| https://www.instagram.com/eshanchattopadhyay/ | |
| https://www.linkedin.com/in/eshan-chattopadhyay-0838b79a/ |
Some Lesser Known Facts
| 1. In 2016, he conducted research as a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Advanced Studies, Princeton for a duration of 4 months. | |
| 2. He transitioned to the University of California, Berkeley as a postdoctoral researcher in January 2017. | |
| 3. In June 2017, he was a Consulting Researcher at Microsoft's office in Greater Bengaluru Area, where he focused on theoretical computer science and cryptography for 3 months. | |
| 4. Demonstrating a progressive career, he joined Cornell University as an Assistant Professor in 2018. | |
| 5. His hobbies include traveling and playing cricket. | |
| 6. He was promoted to Associate Professor in 2024. | |
| 7. His research on randomness extraction has applications in cryptography, secure communications, and data compression. | |
| 8. He completed his postdoctoral work at two prestigious institutions: the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing at UC Berkeley, before joining Cornell University. |