Eshan Chattopadhyay

Some Lesser Known Facts About Eshan Chattopadhyay

• In September 2016, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Advanced Studies, Princeton. He worked there for 4 months.

• In January 2017, he joined University of California, Berkeley as a postdoctoral researcher for 5 months.

• In June 2017, he worked as a Consulting Researcher at Microsoft office in Greater Bengaluru Area, for 3 months, where he did research in theoretical computer science and cryptography.

•  In September 2017, he joined the Institute of Advanced Studies, Princeton as a postdoctoral researcher.

• As of 2025, he works at Cornell University as an Associate Professor. He joined this university in 2018 as an assistant professor. His work focuses on pseudo randomness, extractors, and computational complexity, areas that support modern data security and efficient computation.

• In 2025, he won the Gödel Award in Theoretical Computer Science. He received this prestigious award for solving his groundbreaking solution to a decades-old problem in randomness extraction that puzzled researchers for almost 30 years.