Makrand Sinha

Makrand Sinha

Assistant Professor,
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Makrand Sinha is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. His research is in the area of theoretical computer science focusing on computational complexity and optimization. Previously, he was a Simons-Berkeley postdoctoral fellow at the Simons Institute at the University of California at Berkeley and a postdoctoral researcher at Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica in Amsterdam. He obtained his PhD in 2018 from the University of Washington.

Program Visits

Summer Cluster on Quantum Computing 2026, Summer 2026, Visiting Scientist
Summer Cluster on Quantum Computing 2025, Summer 2025, Visiting Scientist
Analysis and TCS: New Frontiers, Summer 2023, Research Fellow
Lower Bounds in Computational Complexity, Fall 2018, Visiting Graduate Student