10 Indian American Researchers Named Sloan Research Fellows

By siliconindia   |   Wednesday, 29 February 2012, 00:51 IST   |    1 Comments
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5. Parag Pathak

Pathak is currently the associate professor of economics at MIT and also functions as the research associate in economics, Public Economics and Industrial Organization. He focused his research on assessing student assignment systems and has also coordinated with the assignment mechanisms of New York City and Boston school. He completed his PhD in business economics from Harvard University in the year 2007.He is the recipient of Undergraduate Economic Association's Teaching Award in 2010 and State Farm Doctoral Dissertation Award in 2006.

6. Prasad Raghavendra

Raghavendra is the assistant professor in computer science at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He received his Ph.D. from the computer science and engineering department at University of Washington and completed graduation from in computer science from IIT Madras. His areas of research are mainly approximation algorithms, hardness of approximation, complexity, and coding theory.