Nitin Saxena is a Doctoral student at the Computer Science Department of the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India. He graduated form the same institute in 2002. He, along with Manindra Agrawal and Neeraj Kayal proposed the AKS Primality Test in 2002, which attracted the attention of people all around the world. This research remarkably came out as a part of his undergraduate study. Wikibooks Wikiversity has more about this subject: School of Computer Science Open Directory Project: Computer Science Downloadable Science and Computer Science books Collection of Computer Science Bibliographies Belief that title science in computer science is inappropriate nacho Categories: Computer science ... The Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur (IIT Kanpur) is one of the Indian Institutes of Technology, set up in the (then) industrial city of Kanpur in 1960. ... 2002(MMII) is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Manindra Agrawal (born 20 May 1966 in Allahabad) is a professor of computer science at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. ... Neeraj Kayal graduated from Computer Science department of Indian Institute of Technology. ... The AKS primality test (also known as Agrawal-Kayal-Saxena primality test and cyclotomic AKS test) is a deterministic primality-proving algorithm created and published by three Indian scientists named Manindra Agrawal, Neeraj Kayal and Nitin Saxena in August 6, 2002 in a scientific paper titled PRIMES is in P... In some educational systems, an undergraduate is a post-secondary student pursuing a Bachelors degree. ...
He was given the Distinguished Alumnus Award of the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, for his work in computational complexity theory. An alumn (with a silent n), alum, alumnus, or alumna is a former student of a college, university, or school. ... Complexity theory is part of the theory of computation dealing with the resources required during computation to solve a given problem. ...
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Profile of Nitin Saxena at the IIT Kanpur Alumni Assn.
NitinSaxena obtained his B Tech in Computer Science and Engineering in 2001 from the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur where he is currently a Doctoral student.
As a B Tech student, NitinSaxena was part of the team that recently announced a polynomial time algorithm for primality testing.
NitinSaxena has been conferred with the Distinguished Alumnus Award of the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur for his outstanding contributions in Complexity Theory by developing a Polynomial Time Algorithm for Primality Testing.