Nikhil Srivastava
Assistant Professor, UC Berkeley
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.
Program Visits
- Geometric Methods in Optimization and Sampling, Fall 2021. Visiting Scientist.
- Summer Cluster in Quantum Computation, Summer 2021. Visiting Scientist.
- Probability, Geometry, and Computation in High Dimensions, Fall 2020. Visiting Scientist.
- Summer Cluster: Error-Correcting Codes and High-Dimensional Expansion, Summer 2019. Visiting Scientist.
- Geometry of Polynomials, Spring 2019. Visiting Scientist, Program Organizer and Workshop Organizer.
- Foundations of Data Science, Fall 2018. Visiting Scientist.
- Lower Bounds in Computational Complexity, Fall 2018. Visiting Scientist.
- Summer Cluster: Challenges in Quantum Computation, Summer 2018. Visiting Scientist.
- Pseudorandomness, Spring 2017. Visiting Scientist.
- Algorithmic Spectral Graph Theory, Fall 2014. Visiting Scientist.
- Theoretical Foundations of Big Data Analysis, Fall 2013. Research Fellow.
