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Jayadev Acharya, assistant professor  in the school of electrical and computer engineering at Cornell University gets prestigious Career or U.S. National Science Foundation Early Career Development Award.

The Award was given to assistant professor, Jayadev Acharya from the division of Computing and Communication Foundations.

Jayadev, got his bachelors degree in Electronics and Electrical Engineering from IIT Kharagpur, India.

Later on, he obtained PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from UC San Diego , where he was advised by Alon Orlitsky.He was a postdoctoral researcher at MIT

Acharya’s proposal “Statistical Inference Under Information Constraints: Efficient Algorithms and Fundamental Limits” won him a five-year period from 2019-2024 worth $552,654.

Regarding his research Acharya said in a statement: “Consider an app on mobile device. We would like it to be small in size, communicate as little as possible, leak little information about the user, consume little power and so on.”

“A fundamental understanding of the limits and trade-offs between constrained resources such as samples, time, memory,communication and privacy is critical for tackling the many challenges in data science that lay ahead,”he added.

His Research interests are Algorithmic Statistics, Information Theory, and Machine Learning, as mentioned in his profile at Cornell.

-Sai Kumar