New Delhi, June 18 -- Eshan Chattopadhyay, an Indian-origin computer scientist and associate professor at Cornell University, has received the 2025 Godel Prize-one of the highest recognitions in the field of theoretical computer science. He shares the award with David Zuckerman of the University of Texas at Austin for their influential research on randomness extraction-an area crucial to encryption, cybersecurity, and algorithm design.

The award was given for his breakthrough research paper titled "Explicit Two-Source Extractors and Resilient Functions", which addresses a key challenge in computer science: how to generate high-quality randomness from unreliable sources, critical for secure computing and cryptographic systems.

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