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About Naveen Garg
- Naveen Garg (born 12 March 1971) is a Professor of Computer Science in Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, specializing in algorithms and complexity in theoretical computer science.
- He was awarded the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology, India's highest prize for excellence in science, mathematics and technology, in the mathematical sciences category in the year 2016.
- Naveen Garg's contributions are primarily in the design and analysis of approximation algorithms for NP-hard combinatorial optimization problems arising in network design, scheduling, routing, facility location etc.Naveen Garg secured B.Tech.
- degree in Computer Science and Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, in 1991 and Ph.D.
- degree from the same institute in 1994 under the supervision of Prof.
- Vijay Vazirani with a dissertation on "Multicommodity Flows and Approximation Algorithms".
- He was a Postdoctoral Fellow in Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Saarbrucken during September 1994 to August 1996, and a Research Scientist there during September 1996 to December 1997.
- He joined Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, as a faculty in January 1998.
- Currently, he is Amar S.
- Gupta Chair Professor in Decision Sciences.
- He is also a co-director of the Indo-German Max-Planck Center for Computer Science.
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