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
Mahajan is originally from Mumbai, the daughter of a government accountant. 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. Her dissertation, Studies in Language Classes Defined by Time-Varying Cellular Automata, was supervised by Kamala Krithivasan.
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.
Recognition
Mahajan was elected to the Indian Academy of Sciences in 2022. She is an eminent speaker of ACM India. In 2024 she received the J. C. Bose National Fellowship of the Science and Engineering Research Board.
References
- "Proving her worth: Meena Mahajan", Her Story – IIT Bombay Gen Zero Women, IIT Bombay, 2022, retrieved 2024-10-29
- ^ Meena Mahajan, The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, retrieved 2024-10-29
- Meena Mahajan at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ "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
- Home page
- Meena Mahajan publications indexed by Google Scholar