Sanjeev Arora

Sanjeev Arora is the Charles C. Fitzmorris Professor of Computer Science at Princeton University. He is a leading theoretical computer scientist whose PCP theorem from the early 1990s is one of the most important developments in the field in the past 25 years. It created a revolution in theoretical computer whose impact is still being felt today in areas as diverse as graph algorithms, optimization, cryptography, coding theory, and virtually all of computational complexity. Its philosophical implications (in essence, that knowledge can be certified instantly) are being investigated by philosophers in epistemology. He is a towering figure in the field of theoretical computer science for both his research and his leadership in the community.