Meena Mahajan
Indian computer scientist
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Meena Bhaskar Mahajan is an Indian theoretical computer scientist and a professor at the Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai. Her research includes publications in proof complexity, algebraic circuit complexity, small-space complexity classes, parameterized complexity, and algorithms for planar graphs.
Meena Mahajan | |
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| Born | India |
| Alma mater | IIT Madras (Ph.D.) |
| Awards | Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize (2015) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Theoretical computer science, Computational complexity theory |
| Institutions | Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai |
Education and career
Mahajan is originally from Mumbai, the daughter of a government accountant.[1] She studied computer science at IIT Bombay, receiving a bachelor's degree in 1986 and master's degree in 1988. She completed a Ph.D. at IIT Madras in 1993.[2] Her dissertation, Studies in Language Classes Defined by Time-Varying Cellular Automata, was supervised by Kamala Krithivasan.[3]
After joining the Institute of Mathematical Sciences in Chennai as a postdoctoral researcher in 1993, she took a permanent faculty position at the institute in 1994.[2]
Recognition
Mahajan was elected to the Indian Academy of Sciences in 2022, and to the Indian National Science Academy in 2025.[4] She is an eminent speaker of ACM India.[5] In 2024 she received the J. C. Bose National Fellowship of the Science and Engineering Research Board, now Anusandhan National Research Foundation.[4]