The Indian-origin professor won the Godel Award: Ashan Chattopadhyay and David Zuckerman honored; Success research in computer science

Ashan Chattopadhyay, Associate Professor at Cornel University and Computer Science Professor David Zuckerman at the University of Texas at Austin have been awarded the 2025 Godel Award.The award was awarded for his research paper, “clear two-source extractors and flexible works”, which presents a historical solution for a central open problem in random extraction.Originally published in 2019, the paper introduced a novel method for the manufacture of clear two-source extractors used to generate high quality randomism from two weak random sources. An Indian -origin professor, asan Chattopadhyay, completed his PhD at the University of Texas in Austin before joining the University of Cornell. His research focuses on pseudorandomy, circuit complexity and communication complexity. In 2021, he received the National Science Foundation Career Award.Expressing his gratitude, Chattopadhyay said, “This recognition is actually an incredible honor. Godel Award has celebrated some of the most beautiful and basic work in our field. It seems real – and deeply satisfying – that our paper is being placed in that category.”David Zuckerman earned PhD from California University, Berkeley. He is widely recognized for its basic contribution to pseudonym and computational complexity. Their influence in the region was first recognized in FOCS 2021 with a prize at the 30 -year testing.On being awarded the award, Zukarman said, “Earlier, most research on ranomism extraction was focused on seed extracts.” He said, “Now, our work and the work they do after, they have demonstrated the major progress in two-source extractors and Ramsey graphs. I hope it attracts youth talent into the region,” he said.The Godel Award is jointly awarded by the ACM Sigact and European Association for Theiratical Computer Science, named after the famous logicist Kurt Godel. It will be formally presented on the Theory of Computing (Stoc) at the ACM seminar in Prague in June this June.