Nikhil Srivastava

Nikhil is an associate professor in the Mathematics Department at UC Berkeley. He received his PhD in Computer Science from Yale in 2010, advised by Daniel Spielman, and his BS from Union College in 2005. After postdocs at the IAS, Princeton, and MSRI, he spent two and a half years as a researcher at Microsoft Research India, before coming to Berkeley in 2015. He is currently interested in spectral graph theory, random matrices, the geometry of polynomials, mathematical physics, and numerical analysis. He runs a seminar on Discrete Analysis in Evans Hall on Fridays which is attended by both Math and CS graduate students, which all interested Simons visitors are welcome to visit. He is a co-winner of the SIAM Polya Prize, the NAS Held Prize, and the AMS Foias Prize.