Nikhil Srivastava
Nikhil Srivastava has been an assistant professor of Mathematics at University of California, Berkeley since 2015. In July 2014, he was named a recipient of the Pólya Prize with Adam Marcus and Daniel Spielman.Education
Nikhil Srivastava attended Union College in Schenectady, New York, graduating summa cum laude with a bachelor of science degree in mathematics and computer science in 2005. He received a PhD in computer science from Yale University in 2010.Awards
In 2013, together with Adam Marcus and Daniel Spielman, he provided a positive solution to the Kadison–Singer problem, a result that was awarded the 2014 Pólya Prize.
He gave an invited lecture at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 2014.
