Prahladh Harsha is a member of the faculty of the School of Technology and Computer Science at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR). In his previous avatars, he was a graduate student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (where he obtained his PhD under the supervision of Prof. Madhu Sudan), a postdoc at Microsoft Research-Silicon Valley, and a research assistant professor at the Toyota Technological Institute in Chicago. His research interests include computational complexity, probabilistically checkable proofs, communication complexity and information theory.