C. Pandu Rangan

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

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

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.

Research interests
Pandu Rangan has published over two hundred research papers 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.
 * Restricting the problem domain
 * Approximate algorithm design
 * Randomized algorithms
 * Parallel and VLSI algorithms
 * Applied cryptography
 * Secure multi-part computation
 * Game theory and
 * Graph theory

Awards and honours

 * In 2018, he won Institute Chair Professor at IIT Madras.
 * Fellow, Indian National Academy of Engineering, (2006).
 * Member of the Board of Directors of International Association for Cryptologic Research (IACR), (2002-2005).
 * Member, Board of Directors, Society for Electronics Transaction and Security (SETS), (2005-2007).
 * Member, Editorial Board, Lecture Notes in Computer Science Series (LNCS Series), Springer-Verlag, Germany, (2005-2008).
 * Member, Editorial Board, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, (2005-2008).