C. Pandu Rangan

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Chandrasekharan Pandu Rangan
Born (1955-09-20) September 20, 1955 (age 67)
EducationB.Sc (M), M.Sc (EE), PhD (Applied Mathematics)
Alma mater Indian Institute of Science
University of Madras
Occupation(s)Professor and researcher
Children2
Scientific career
Fields Computer science
Institutions Indian Institute of Technology Madras

Chandrasekaran Pandurangan (born September 20, 1955) is a computer scientist and academic professor of the Computer Science and Engineering Department [1] at Indian Institute of Technology - Madras (IITM). [2] He mainly focuses on the design of pragmatic algorithms, graph theory and cryptography. [3]

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Early life

Pandu Rangan was born on September 20, 1955, to S.R. Chandrasekharan in Madras, India. He is married and has two children. [4]

Education

Pandu Rangan completed his B.Sc. from University of Madras in 1975. After obtaining B.Sc., he received his M.Sc. from the same university in 1977. He completed his PhD from IISc, Bangalore in 1984. [5]

Research interests

Pandu Rangan has published over two hundred research papers [6] in the following areas of computer science and engineering:

Problems of practical interest in graph theory, combinatorics and computational geometry were his main interests in research. In cryptology his current focus is on secure message transmission and provable security of cryptographic protocols / primitives. [7]

Awards and honours

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