Nikhil Srivastava

Nikhil is an assistant 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. He is currently interested in algorithms, spectral graph theory, random matrices, and the geometry of polynomials.