Venkatesan Guruswami received his Bachelor's degree in Computer
Science from the Indian Institute of Technology at Madras in 1997 and
his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology in 2001. He is currently a Professor in the
Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University. Earlier,
during 2002-09, he was a faculty member at the University of
Washington. Dr. Guruswami was a Miller Research Fellow at the UC
Berkeley during 2001-02, and was a member in the School of
Mathematics, Institute for Advanced Study during 2007-08.

Dr. Guruswami's research interests span several topics in theoretical
computer science such as the theory of error-correcting codes,
approximability of fundamental optimization problems, explicit
combinatorial constructions and pseudorandomness, probabilistically
checkable proofs, computational complexity theory, and algebraic
algorithms.

Dr. Guruswami currently serves on the editorial boards of the SIAM
Journal on Computing and the ACM Transactions on Computation Theory,
and as the program committee chair for the 2015 FOCS
conference. Previously, he was on editorial board of the IEEE
Transactions on Information Theory and was program committee chair for
the 2012 Computational Complexity conference. He was an invited
speaker at the 2010 International Congress of
Mathematicians. Dr. Guruswami is a recipient of the Presburger Award
(2012), Packard Fellowship (2005), Sloan Fellowship (2005), NSF CAREER
award (2004), the ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award (2002), and the IEEE
Information Theory Society Paper Award (2000).