Sanjeev Arora is Charles C. Fitzmorris Professor of Computer Science at Princeton University. He got his PhD at UC Berkeley in 1994. His research area spans several areas of theoretical Computer Science, including computational complexity and algorithm design, and theoretical problems in machine learning. He has received the ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award (1995), ACM-EATCS Gödel Prize (in 2001 and 2010), Packard Fellowship (1997), the ACM Infosys Foundation Award in the Computing Sciences (2012), the Fulkerson Prize (2012), and the Simons Investigator Award (2012).